electromagnetic launch system
China making 'science fiction' super warship, report claims: 'Big step forward'
Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury weighs in on U.S.-China relations and Secretary of State Antony Blinken's trip to Beijing on'Fox News Tonight.' 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. "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.