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Offshore wind farm could create radar blind spots, ‘ghost’ targets: China study (opens the original)
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As China rapidly expands its wind projects near coastal areas, researchers find the turbines can complicate marine vessel detection at sea Offshore wind farms can reduce the coverage of shore-based radar systems and create areas where targets become harder to detect, according to a new study. The researchers found that at a range of 5km (3 miles), effective radar coverage fell by 6.9 per cent while blind spots increased by 14.9 per cent. The research, published online last month in the peer-revi
China mulls building nuclear-powered tank with 450km-range railgun in 2 decades (opens the original)
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Further multi-physics simulations and vehicle-level testing needed before proposed systems could move towards practical deployment Detailed in a peer-reviewed paper published in June in the Chinese journal Acta Armamentarii, the concept envisions a 60-tonne armoured vehicle driven by a 10-megawatt-class small modular reactor (SMR) and a 50-megajoule (MJ) railgun. The National Key Laboratory of Special Vehicle Design and Manufacturing Integration Technology funded the study through a special rese
J-50 design team reveals leapfrog tech for China’s next-gen stealth fighters (opens the original)
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The aircraft are expected to have futuristic systems for self-flying and large-scale drone wingman squads That is the plan laid out by researchers from the Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, a top Chinese military aircraft design organisation, in a paper last month. The lead researcher is chief flight-control designer Zhang Dong at the institute, and his team’s paper – rare for its public details – was published in a peer-reviewed journal Aircraft Design in August. China’s next-gener
Could China sanction US for illegal international seabed mining? A study says yes (opens the original)
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But issue is said to create tension for Beijing between defending the multilateral system and protecting its own access to critical minerals For decades, the United States has used economic and financial restrictions as major foreign policy tools. But as China and other countries gain greater economic and technological strength, they are also acquiring more ways to push back against US actions, with deep-sea mining possibly becoming a testing ground for that shift. China could join other countri
Chinese naval study finds Trump’s love for ‘big guns’ may not be crazy after all (opens the original)
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Military researchers suggest large-calibre weapons firing fragmenting shells from battleships could neutralise low-cost drone swarms According to Wang Lei and his team from the People’s Liberation Army’s Dalian Naval Academy, these guns could fire prefabricated-fragment shells that would explode near a drone swarm, creating a high-speed cloud of fragments capable of damaging multiple targets within an area. The Trump-class battleship, announced in December as part of the president’s proposed “Go
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