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Chinese railgun puts US on notice

22nd March 2018 - 02:13 GMT | by Wendell Minnick in Taipei

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China is fond of magic-bullet weapons, whether they are anti-ship ballistic missiles such as the DF-21D, hypersonic glide vehicles or anti-satellite weapons capable of blinding or even destroying US military satellites, and so it is with China’s new railgun.

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has equipped one of its Type 072III-class landing ships, Haiyang Shan, with an electromagnetic launch (EML) railgun. In January, photographs appeared on the internet of a combat-configured weapon turret ready for testing at sea. Then this month, reports that the ship had tested the gun at sea began appearing in Chinese media.

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Wendell Minnick (顏文德) was Shephard's Senior Asia Correspondent throughout 2017 and 2018. Wendell is an …

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