China’s ‘supergun’ nears readiness

[cirr]

China’s ‘supergun’ nears readiness

2 hours ago Tech News

IT’s a world first.

China has confirmed it has a warship-mounted electromagnetic rail gun, and that sea tests are underway.

It’s a new weapon that abandons conventional gunpowder for intense — but carefully controlled — magnetic fields. These can accelerate projectiles to enormous speeds — making them fly further and more difficult to dodge.

RELATED: China puts a railgun on a warship

The gun works by placing a projectile on an armature between two conductive rails. Once an electric charge is driven into the rails, two powerful magnetic fields form to create a “Lorentz force” blast.

This can launch the projectile at hypersonic speeds.

But immense technological challenges needed to be overcome before the weapon became reliable enough for operational use. This included an immense power supply, as well as maintaining consistent control over the magnetic fields.

China’s People’s Liberation Army posted an article earlier this week, lauding a leading female member of the research team that has successfully developed the new technology.

Associate research fellow at the People’s Liberation Army Navy University of Engineering Zhang Xiao had been awarded the “Red Banner” for her achievements on “the eve of the March 8th Women’s Day”.

“After hundreds of failures and more than 50,000 tests,” Zhang achieved the first ship-borne and largest “repeating power supply system” in the world, the report says.

Zhang states in the video profile that a “new weapon test” aboard a ship was successful, and that she had been responsible for its “power supply maintenance” and “the system simulation”.

Her award comes on the heels of speculation surrounding pictures released on Chinese social media in January that appeared to show a distinctive-looking rail gun mounted to a military landing ship, the Haiyang Shan.

Chinese state media outlet Global Times quotes commentators as saying the achievement overtakes the United States as the world leader in rail gun development.

“The repeating power supply system is the power source of an electromagnetic rail gun. The US started developing it earlier than China and has carried out more experiments and tests, and both the US and China’s railguns run on the same operating principle. But thanks to the repeating power supply system, China’s rail gun has a more stable and continuous power supply,” Song Zhongping, a military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times.

EXPLORE MORE: Is China gaining a military edge on the US?

“The use of railguns is more suitable for navy vessels rather than ground forces or other units, because a rail gun requires a sustainable and massive energy supply, and if it is used by a ground force, it will need a power station to follow it all the time. But modernised naval vessels all have electric generators and can provide sustainable and massive power sources.”

The rail gun test involved a team of more than 200 researchers and personnel, the report states.

http://mytechcrunch.com/chinas-supergun-nears-readiness/

 

[Beast]

“The use of railguns is more suitable for navy vessels rather than ground forces or other units, because a rail gun requires a sustainable and massive energy supply, and if it is used by a ground force, it will need a power station to follow it all the time. But modernised naval vessels all have electric generators and can provide sustainable and massive power sources.”

I disagree. If used as big self propelled gun and due to the enormous range it can hurl at. It can stay far away from front line while lop explosive at enemy position. Some thing like these. But with striking range of 200-250km striking range

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Test it on Afghanistan

 

[Jlaw]

Test it on Afghanistan

New Deli

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

India is already so messed up no need just drop some beef burger over their region

 

[Viet]

China’s ‘supergun’ nears readiness

2 hours ago Tech News

IT’s a world first.

China has confirmed it has a warship-mounted electromagnetic rail gun, and that sea tests are underway.

It’s a new weapon that abandons conventional gunpowder for intense — but carefully controlled — magnetic fields. These can accelerate projectiles to enormous speeds — making them fly further and more difficult to dodge.

RELATED: China puts a railgun on a warship

The gun works by placing a projectile on an armature between two conductive rails. Once an electric charge is driven into the rails, two powerful magnetic fields form to create a “Lorentz force” blast.

This can launch the projectile at hypersonic speeds.

But immense technological challenges needed to be overcome before the weapon became reliable enough for operational use. This included an immense power supply, as well as maintaining consistent control over the magnetic fields.

China’s People’s Liberation Army posted an article earlier this week, lauding a leading female member of the research team that has successfully developed the new technology.

Associate research fellow at the People’s Liberation Army Navy University of Engineering Zhang Xiao had been awarded the “Red Banner” for her achievements on “the eve of the March 8th Women’s Day”.

“After hundreds of failures and more than 50,000 tests,” Zhang achieved the first ship-borne and largest “repeating power supply system” in the world, the report says.

Zhang states in the video profile that a “new weapon test” aboard a ship was successful, and that she had been responsible for its “power supply maintenance” and “the system simulation”.

Her award comes on the heels of speculation surrounding pictures released on Chinese social media in January that appeared to show a distinctive-looking rail gun mounted to a military landing ship, the Haiyang Shan.

Chinese state media outlet Global Times quotes commentators as saying the achievement overtakes the United States as the world leader in rail gun development.

“The repeating power supply system is the power source of an electromagnetic rail gun. The US started developing it earlier than China and has carried out more experiments and tests, and both the US and China’s railguns run on the same operating principle. But thanks to the repeating power supply system, China’s rail gun has a more stable and continuous power supply,” Song Zhongping, a military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times.

EXPLORE MORE: Is China gaining a military edge on the US?

“The use of railguns is more suitable for navy vessels rather than ground forces or other units, because a rail gun requires a sustainable and massive energy supply, and if it is used by a ground force, it will need a power station to follow it all the time. But modernised naval vessels all have electric generators and can provide sustainable and massive power sources.”

The rail gun test involved a team of more than 200 researchers and personnel, the report states.

http://mytechcrunch.com/chinas-supergun-nears-readiness/

What is that “repeating power supply system” that is developed by the PLA girl Zhang? Some sorts of magic? Can anyone explain?

 

[terranMarine]

What is that “repeating power supply system” that is developed by the PLA girl Zhang? Some sorts of magic? Can anyone explain?

My magic which could be used on the Vietnamese Navy

 

[Viet]

My magic which could be used on the Vietnamese Navy

But the PLA must have a functioning weapon.

And from all chinese articles there is not a single word about whether or not a new material for the gun barrel is successful developed to withstand the immense heat created by electromagnetic fields.

 

[Tom M]

India is already so messed up no need just drop some beef burger over their region

As if you are better off. LOL

 

[cirr]

what do you think it's doing now? the super dick going through all the test and it's very successful. Once ready i'm gonna enjoy testing it out on Viet export brides

There is a bigger and more powerful ground-based version of the railgun.

Deployed on one of the reclaimed islands with a range of over 400km, the gun just about covers everything untoward in the SCS.

 

[yantong1980]

Glad to see if the test clip available

 

[Shahzaz ud din]

Glad to see if the test clip available

 

[Beast]

But the PLA must have a functioning weapon.

And from all chinese articles there is not a single word about whether or not a new material for the gun barrel is successful developed to withstand the immense heat created by electromagnetic fields.

The test is successful. It is thought the test is carry on out in Yellow Sea. Post by cirr in another thread.

And the most difficult technology hurdle Chinese face for railgun is not handling the heat but stabilize and consistent magnetic field control.

The key seems to be the repeating power supply system. It is the key towards a readiness railgun deploy.

 

[TaiShang]

New Deli

No need to use sophisticated stuff on them. To beat SP12 just let them be. Any attention given to them by China (hostile or friendly) will boost their morale.

 

[cirr]

The test is successful. It is thought the test is carry on out in Yellow Sea. Post by cirr in another thread.

And the most difficult technology hurdle Chinese face for railgun is not handling the heat but stabilize and consistent magnetic field control.

The key seems to be the repeating power supply system. It is the key towards a readiness railgun deploy.

The shipboard tests were carried out before photos surfaced of the gun.

Knowing how things are done discreetly here in China......

A Chinese shipbuilder accidentally revealed its major navy plans

Nuclear submarines, giant aircraft carriers, robot warships.

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer 6 hours ago

DALIAN SHIPYARD
Dalian Shipyard, part of CSIC, is where China's first domestic carrier, CV-17, was built. It will also likely be the builder for China's first, nuclear powered supercarrier.
cjdby.net

For a brief moment, the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), put online China's next big naval projects (but quickly pulled them down). The revelation, of which screenshots were taken before censors intervened, provided a picture of China's ambitions for a world class navy.

TYPE 003
This new display at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, was newly installed for the PLA's 90th anniversary. While it has speculative features like four catapults, J-20 fighters and stealthy UCAVs, the nuclear powered Type 003 supercarrier probably won't enter service until after 2030.
Oedo Soldier

CSIC is a major shipbuilder for the People's Liberation Army Navy, responsible for high ticket items like aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. The biggest item in CSIC's not-so-secret portfolio is China's first nuclear-powered carrier. Popularly identified as the Type 003, it will be the largest non-American warship in the world when its launched in the late 2020s. CSIC's Dalian Shipyard, which refurbished the aircraft carrier Liaoning, and launched China's first domestically built carrier, CV-17, in 2017, will presumably build China's first "Type 003" CVN.

The Type 003 will displace between 90,000-100,000 tons and have electromagnetically assisted launch system (EMALS) catapults for getting aircrafts off the deck. It'll likely carry a large air wing of J-15 fighters, J-31 stealth fighters, KJ-600 airborne early warning and control aircraft, anti-submarine warfare helicopters, and stealth attack drones. When joined with Type 055 destroyers and next-generation attack submarines, it would provide the PLAN a highly capable task force for representing China on global missions.

TYPE 095 SSN
The Type 095 SSN, seen in this speculative fanmade CGI, will likely have VLS cells for launching a wide range of cruise missiles, pumpjet propulsion and improved quieting technology. The first Type 095 will likely begin production in late 2017 at the giant new BSHIC factory, with many more to follow in the 2020s.
Medico-MAX

CSIC's website also boasted that it would build a new nuclear-powered submarine, likely the Type 095 nuclear attack submarine (SSN). The Type 095 SSN would be built at CSIC's Bohai Shipyard, which is China's sole nuclear submarine shipyard. Compared to the Type 093 SSN, the Type 095 SSN will include new noise reduction measures, like an integrated electric propulsion system and possibly a shaftless rim drive, single hull, and electronic noise cancellation. CSIC is also working on a separate 'quiet' submarine project, presumably to be built at its Wuhan conventional submarine shipyard. This submarine is presumably quieter than the air-independent propulsion (AIP) Type 039B Yuan submarine; it'll likely have quieting measures like a single hull, a new AIP system, and lithium-ion batteries. A new generation of Chinese submarines could help the PLAN remedy its historic technologic disadvantage against the submarines forces of the American and Japanese navies.

LARGE AUV
This large AUV, similar to the USN's LDUUV, is used for long term autonomous missions; its size allows for it to carry modular payloads of sensors, mine warfare and ASW. It could be the precursor to larger Chinese armed UUVs carrying torpedoes and missiles.
www.top81.cn

The big CSIC announcement also covers 21st century naval wish lists, like autonomous robot submarines. This is the first official confirmation of China pursuing armed unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), in addition to unmanned surface vehicles already offered for exports. Autonomous UUVs, armed with torpedoes and missiles, could act as expendable scouts or wingmen for manned Chinese submarines and surface warships, such as undertaking dangerous missions like probing enemy minefields, launching sneak attacks, and drawing away enemy forces.

UNDERWATER GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The Underwater Great Wall may be centered around stationary sensors on the ocean bed, but autonomous UUVs will be a critical enabler in not just tracking enemy submarines, but finding them.
www.top81.cn

To defend Chinese home waters and expand the anti-access/area denial umbrella underwater, CSIC is designing an underwater attack and defense system. It could likely be an armed variant of the "Underwater Great Wall" of UUVs, other maritime robots and seafloor sensors. With built in modularity, it could be tailored to defend naval bases with surveillance UUVs and counter torpedo defenses on one end, and at the other end of the spectrum; a networked minefield of armed and smart UUVs supported by automated underwater listening posts. These capabilities would require not just the platforms, though; CSIC would need to master emerging technologies like underwater high capacity datalinks, combat AI, and multi-spectrum sensors.

https://www.popsci.com/china-nuclear-submarine-aircraft-carrier-leak