China could develop Star Wars-style supership
Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, who is key to the development of China’s most advanced naval technologies, has revealed the conceptual blueprint of a futuristic warship which he says is unlike any ship the world had seen.
China could develop Star Wars-style supership
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China could develop Star Wars-style supership

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Eurasia 26/06/2023 17:00

Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, who is key to the development of China’s most advanced naval technologies, has revealed the conceptual blueprint of a futuristic warship which he says is unlike any ship the world had seen, South China Morning Post reported. 

China could develop futuristic warship which is unlike any ship in the world, said Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, who is key to the development of China's most advanced naval technologies, South China Morning Post reported. “It will completely overturn the combat formation of naval fleets that has been in place for over a hundred years,” he said in a peer-reviewed paper published in Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society journal on June 13.

Currently, naval combat platforms around the world, aircraft carrier groups, have been made more complicated by the diversity of tasks they must perform. This makes it harder for them to coordinate their actions effectively. These vessels are also expensive to build and operate.
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The super warship is armed with new electromagnetic weapons such as rail guns, coilguns, rocket launchers, laser weapons and high-powered microwaves. Its advanced technology “cleverly and effectively transform the energy from the ship’s power source into the electromagnetic energy needed to power high-powered weapons,” according to the paper.

This could give a single warship the ability to accurately defend against air attacks, engage in anti-submarine warfare, intercept missiles and deliver precise strikes on both naval and land targets, SCMP noted.
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Ma’s team did not estimate when the supership would be built, but it said China was ready to take the idea from science fiction to the real world.

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