{"id":34945,"date":"2022-02-06T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34945"},"modified":"2022-02-06T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T04:00:17","slug":"why-chinas-j-20-mighty-dragon-may-lack-the-firepower-to-use-laser-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34945","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s J-20 Mighty Dragon may lack the firepower to use laser weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s ambitions to arm its most advanced fighter jet with hi-tech weapons, such as lasers or particle beams, may be frustrated by its underpowered engines, according to military analysts.An increasing number of countries are researching cutting-edge directed-energy weapons (DEW), including the United States which is looking into their use to target hypersonic missiles and gliders.The J-20, which is central to the country\u2019s plans for military modernisation, would be an obvious choice to be\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3165856\/why-chinas-j-20-mighty-dragon-may-lack-firepower-use-laser?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s ambitions to arm its most advanced fighter jet with hi-tech weapons, such as lasers or particle beams, may be frustrated by its underpowered&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}