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China reloads railgun ambitions as Japan tests and US powers down
China’s radical new “X-rail gun” aims to fire 60-kilo slugs at Mach 7 speeds, raising the stakes in a railgun race where Beijing doubles down, Tokyo hedges bets and Washington taps out. This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Chinese army scientists led by Professor Lyu Qingao of the People’s Liberation Army’s […] The post China reloads railgun ambitions as Japan tests and US powers down appeared first on Asia Times.
The electric cannon – Japan's Railgun project is on the move The topic of "electric cannon" (Railgun) has not yet been completed: the Japanese self-defense forces (JSDF) have recently installed a demonstrator on board the experimental carrier "Asuka" – a 151-metre-long ship with 6,300 tons of displacement, which is strongly reminiscent of former US destroyers. Between 2016 and 2022, a research facility of the Japanese Ministry of Defense develop…
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