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Ships of the 43rd anti-piracy task force at the port of Cadiz in Spain. The 43rd task force was recently relieved by the 44th task force, so it looks like it's making some port calls before returning home.

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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. In the paper, the naval researchers listed recent breakthroughs in China that would pave the way for the ship’s construction. Some were declassified for the first time. The Chinese navy, for instance, has developed and implemented an electromagnetic launch system for weapon payloads on various types of combat platforms, including vehicles, ships, and submarines, according to Ma.

The Chinese navy, for example, has developed pulse energy storage modules that can store hundreds of kilojoules of energy and can be combined in a modular building block fashion to achieve total energy storage in the hundreds of megajoules, according to Ma.
This represents a significant breakthrough in the development of high-capacity pulse energy storage systems for electromagnetic launch applications, with performance several times higher than similar systems used by the US Navy.

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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. In the paper, the naval researchers listed recent breakthroughs in China that would pave the way for the ship’s construction. Some were declassified for the first time. The Chinese navy, for instance, has developed and implemented an electromagnetic launch system for weapon payloads on various types of combat platforms, including vehicles, ships, and submarines, according to Ma.

The Chinese navy, for example, has developed pulse energy storage modules that can store hundreds of kilojoules of energy and can be combined in a modular building block fashion to achieve total energy storage in the hundreds of megajoules, according to Ma.
This represents a significant breakthrough in the development of high-capacity pulse energy storage systems for electromagnetic launch applications, with performance several times higher than similar systems used by the US Navy.

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Jesus, that's a lot of new information packed in one article. I'd love to read the original paper! It's by Ma Weiming too, and that's a serious dude so it's not just some random researcher like the 24 hypersonics sinking a carrier article. Just a list of new info that I can think of, in terms of capabilities that Ma states China has:

1) Railguns with the ability to target space assets
2) EM launch systems for land, ship, and underwater based systems
3) EM launched bullets using "EM spin-up" technology to improve accuracy (presumably EM implementation of "rifling"?)
4) Modular supercapacitors that stack to hundreds of MJs of energy storage

And of course, the biggest kicker here is that he believes these tech are mature enough to be implemented in real military systems now. This is different from the Zumwalt as it was built with the anticipation that these types of systems would be ready.
 
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