The Chinese military years ago mulled the use of electromagnetic weapons against the United States and Taiwan, and could have built on that technology to have in its arsenal a working radiation weapon today. (Feng Li/Getty Images) Beijing Develops Pulse Weapons -- Washington Times
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China's military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday.
Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Center study on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China's so-called "assassin's mace" arsenal - weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces.
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Update: Chinese Regime Developed Space-Age Weapons Against Taiwan, US -- Epoch Times
My Comment: I have trouble seeing how such weapons can be effective against America's aircraft carriers .... to begin .... I doubt that such weapons would be able to get close to any US fleet before being destroyed. But if the focus is on a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse weapon .... well that is a different story.
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