Chinese Naval Scientists Take an Interest in Trump’s ‘Big Guns’
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- Chinese military scientists have suggested that large-calibre naval guns could play an important role in future warfare.
- Their paper responds to Donald Trump’s vision of warships equipped with powerful guns, a proposal critics have mocked as outdated and driven by personal ambition.
Donald Trump’s vision of warships bristling with huge-calibre guns has received an unexpected nod from military scientists in China.
The concept has been widely mocked as a billionaire’s vanity project and a throwback to the battleship era of the Second World War. But a paper published last month in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Command Control & Simulation argued that large-calibre naval guns could have a critical role in future warfare.
The paper’s authors linked the possible role of such weapons to the growing threat of [...].
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Originally published by South China Morning Post in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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