Dick Fisher's raison d'etre is the non-stop propagation of the Yellow Peril. His articles exhibit the characteristic fear/loathing/contempt/scaremongering that is typical of these journalists. His articles almost invariably end with the US military had better buy this, develop that, or else the Chinese will rape your women and eat your children. He is probably a paid shill for the American military industrial complex.
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Jura The idiot
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A bord de l’« Auvergne », en mer de Chine du Sud
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"The French frigate carried out an unprecedented mission in the Spratleys and Paracel Islands. These reefs close to the Philippines are coveted by all countries in the region, first and foremost China. ..."
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Le parcours inédit d'une frégate FREMM en mer de Chine méridionale
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The new course of a frigate FREMM in South China Sea
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google translation:
"The French frigate carried out an unprecedented mission in the Spratleys and Paracel Islands. These reefs close to the Philippines are coveted by all countries in the region, first and foremost China. ..."
noticed through Twitter:
Le parcours inédit d'une frégate FREMM en mer de Chine méridionale
Translated from French by
The new course of a frigate FREMM in South China Sea
Jura The idiot
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There are two topics/issues in this article
1. The miss-conception of Nuclear power is prerequisite of EMALS
The prerequisite of nuclear power plant for application of EMALS was always a miss-conception and miss-understanding of underplaying technology. The living proof of that is the planned (but abandoned) EMALS on QE class.
BTW, QE's failure of adopting EMALS is not because conventional power plant does not work, it is because UK could not and still can not make AC IEPS (1st generation in Ma Weiming's word) work with EMALS. But China went straight to DC IEPS (2nd/3rd gen depending on who is talking) which natively superior than AC based IEPS in coping with huge load change.
2. The Chinese breakthrough
The article got this right. The breakthrough is that Ma made DC IEPS, he did something the British could not do for their QE, and will not be able to do in the next 5 to 10 years, so as USN.
If British choose Chinese path from the beginning (20 years ago?), they would have made the breakthrough.
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It might have been better but probably also more expensive and also less certain. UK is really a poor country. Look at its National Health Service as just one instance.
The AC path is easier to start 20 years ago. Ma Weiming's first experiment was AC. Due to two reasons Ma decided to go straight to DC path. 1. The inherent shortcomings of AC. 2. China's lack of choice of good GT and diesel primo (primary mover) which was not a problem for UK. Some times, a blessing is a curse. Because of China's shortcoming, China was forced to go the better future proof path. DC path is more technically challenging in other aspect such as short-circuit protection, but China is at equal footing in this area as UK back then. So Ma took the right path, picked the challenge 10 years earlier than UK and makes it work today. Cost is less of a challenge than technology. It is another example of "弯道超车，后发优势", overtaking at curve, late-comer's advantage.
Double like. Same as for your post it at 1674
It is good to hear of a first rather than China just steals or copy ideas.
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Thanks for the like. I spent some time to fresh up my college study and dug around recently to try to understand what Ma's achievement is and why. And I found even more 1st which are overlooked due to they are within the IEPS itself. One thing in a paper by Ma's student is the mentioning of SiC application in Ma's IEPS. It means SiC is either used or very close to be used. China would be the first (or equal firsts) to do so.
Indeed, this is a first in the world of major achievement by Chinese. Ma Weiming is going into the history for his great contribution when he dared to say China hold a 10 years lead of other major players. And this is not the only first as we know, quantum communication is another one, and more will come.
~ Thats great. I recently read that the uS. wants to have talks with Russia and China because they are worried about the spread Of hypersonic technology . Russia and China mast be I very close to the U.S. inthis technology , otherwise long all for discussions)
This is not correct. It is not the US government that is trying to initiate talks with Russia and China, it's a RAND report recommending that these 3 countries strike a hypersonic non-proliferation deal that resembles something like the MTCR.