second photo looks similar to BAE systems HVP.Does anyone have access to the paper(s) from which these illustrations are taken? Thanks in advance.
PRC/PLAN Laser and Rail Gun Development Thread
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There was a report of CIA hired spy stealing Chinese railgun design. If I remember it correctly, it was in year 2014 or 2016. If you search hard enough you can find its video documentary on youtube. It was a Chinese defense engineer published a paper in a English language journal then was bribed by the American spy to steal the documents successfully. Then, the documentary video blamed US of cloning the same design.
I think you're both assuming that there is any manner in which a railgun munition with sabot can be designed.
There's a reason with most APFSDS from tanks have a similar geometry.
Does anyone have access to the paper(s) from which these illustrations are taken? Thanks in advance.
This is apparently 5 different for each of these figures, all from institute 713.
It should be noted the amount of published literature on this topic ("电磁轨道炮"/“railgun") from Chinese authors is quite significant (~300 articles, ~20/year since 2012) considering its relative novelty. Potentially indicative of progresses or at least efforts made towards the field.
Figure for number of papers published per year on "railgun":
As a notional comparison, research articles for traditional "舰炮"/"naval gun" systems average around 3 articles per year. Although this likely reflects some research being classified due to relevant systems being in service.
by78
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Oh boy, am I glad to have you here. Thank you again!
antiterror13
Brigadier
What report? any links?
antiterror13
Brigadier
Interesting article ....... I wouldn't be surprised if China be the first one to commission railgun on 055
Hopefully 055B/C will have railgun and IEPS
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There gotta be something wrong with this report. It's already weird enough they talk about penetrating 80mm steel as it's some kind of accomplishment. Then they say frontal armor of MBT would also translate roughly to 80mm. I don't think we can believe any number come out of this article.