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| China achieves breakthrough in pulse weapons technology |
| 2015-02-05 |
| Directed-energy weapons are said to be the future of advanced technological warfare. (Internet photo) China has achieved a technological breakthrough that could help introduce pulse weapons to the People's Liberation Army's arsenal, reports the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. According to the report, the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a third-generation X-ray pulsar simulation source. The technology, which can create an X-ray pulsar source in X-ray tubes to generate arbitrary waveform pulses, officially passed evaluation tests on Jan. 17. |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp0035 |
| #5 Considering the US already has energy weapons fielded and really impressive ones in development, including energy powered kinetic weapons it is nice to see China is only just barely in the R&D phase. Energy weapons and energy powered weapons are the future. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-02-05 18:11 |
| #4 X-rays aint much good against railgun launched kinetic weapons. It can peel the paint off them if that helps. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-02-05 16:27 |
| #3 So it might some day turn out to be a targeted EMP? color me unimpressed. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-05 14:39 |
| #2 X-rays aint much good against railgun launched kinetic weapons. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2015-02-05 06:46 |
| #1 Wehell, iff my dreams or dreams from years ago prove true, to answer MAM-Net Artic questions from 2012 and 2014 China will indeed use these advanced weapons in any war for strategic access agz Japan + other US Allies in East Asia. GOOD THING NIPPON HAS "GIGANTOR"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-05 00:42 |