The U.S. Navy has spent half a billion dollars working to perfect a new type of projectile weapons technology that could be used in current and future naval ships. That gun is the railgun, which has always sounded like something out of a video game or science fiction. Unfortunately, it looks as though the project is possibly going to be scrapped

Source: Hot Hardware – U.S. Navy’s Frighteningly Powerful Railgun May Be Scrapped In 0M Boondoggle