{"id":78008,"date":"2018-04-23T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/armys-pursuit-of-electromagnetic-railguns-heats-up"},"modified":"2018-04-23T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:22:16","slug":"armys-pursuit-of-electromagnetic-railguns-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/armys-pursuit-of-electromagnetic-railguns-heats-up","title":{"rendered":"Armys Pursuit of Electromagnetic Railguns Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/armys-pursuit-of-electromagnetic-railguns-heats-up2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: General Atomics<\/p>\n<p>General Atomics has been awarded a contract to develop electromagnetic railgun technology for the Army as the service pursues cutting-edge weapons to take on advanced adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Army\u2019s growing interest in this capability comes after years of research by the Navy, which has yet to field one of the weapons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2018\/4\/23\/armys-pursuit-of--electromagnetic-railguns-heats-up\">http:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2018\/4\/23\/ar...s-heats-up<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: General Atomics General Atomics has been awarded a contract to develop electromagnetic railgun technology for the Army as the service pursues cutting-edge weapons to take on advanced adversaries. The Army\u2019s growing interest in this capability comes after years of research by the Navy, which has yet to field one of the weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78009,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78008\/revisions\/78009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}