December 30, 2018
China's Navy Now Has a Super Weapon America's Navy Lacks: A Railgun
And we have the pictures to prove it.
by Task and Purpose
China's futuristic electromagnetic railgun may already be the most powerful cannon to ever roam the high seas — ahead of schedule.
In June, a U.S. intelligence assessment estimated that the Chinese military planned on fielding its own version of the electromagnetic railgun on naval vessels as early as 2025, far outstripping the Pentagon's truncatedefforts to develop its own version of the much-hyped supergun. Now, new photos appear to show the railgun perched on the bow of its test ship at sea.
This is clearly the Haiyang Shan, the same Type 072III-class landing ship that was spotted in January 2018 docked at the Wuchang shipyard in China's central Hubei province, the largest of the People's Liberation Army Navy's inland shipyards and a major production hub for the country's conventional submarines.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-navy-now-has-super-weapon-americas-navy-lacks-railgun-40217
