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Japan is pushing ahead with efforts to field an electrically powered railgun capable of firing projectiles six times the speed of sound and defending against hypersonic missiles.

The railgun project was allocated about $56 million in the government’s fiscal 2022 budget proposal, Japan’s The Mainichi newspaper reported Jan. 5.

A railgun uses an electromagnetic force to rapidly accelerate and launch a projectile between two rails, according to Naval Sea Systems Command…

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