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General Category => World News => China => Topic started by: Kamaji on June 16, 2023, 09:00:22 pm
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China developing ‘science fiction’ super warship, report claims
By Peter Aitken, Fox News
June 16, 2023
China has revealed plans to develop a futuristic warship that would include breakthrough technologies that would bring “science fiction to the real world,” according to a report.
The ship will utilize nuclear energy to power electromagnetic weapons, an official claimed
“It will completely overturn the combat formation of naval fleets that has been in place for over a hundred years,” People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Rear Adm. Ma Weiming said in a peer-reviewed paper, the South Morning China Post reported.
The Chinese supership would look to adopt new technology such as rail guns, rocket launchers, laser weapons and high-powered microwaves. The technology would “cleverly and effectively transform the energy from the ship’s power source – nuclear energy – into the electromagnetic energy needed to power” the weapons, Ma wrote.
The admiral argued that these different capabilities would turn a single ship into an “all-purpose” platform that can perform “the traditional tasks of a fleet of conventional ships.”
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/16/china-making-science-fiction-super-warship-report-claims-big-step-forward/
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As far as rail guns go, the U.S. navy has already tested that out, and the demands on a ship's power supplies to run those things makes the idea infeasible.
However, the Chinese are welcome to go down that path if they want to.
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The Chi-coms don't have to take environmental and personal safety into account. They don't have to play by our rules.
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The Chi-coms don't have to take environmental and personal safety into account. They don't have to play by our rules.
The Chi-coms will take a lot of shortcuts so it will be dangerous, have no personal safety of course, won't be environmentally friendly, and it will probably blow up after the first trial.