{"id":35558,"date":"2022-02-10T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35558"},"modified":"2022-02-10T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:00:20","slug":"us-holding-fire-on-rail-gun-development-but-china-takes-aim-with-planned-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35558","title":{"rendered":"US holding fire on rail gun development but China takes aim with planned tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is to step up its testing of rail guns to an unprecedented level, according to a military researcher, as the US gives up on the futuristic weapon after decades of research.A rail gun is a kinetic energy weapon that can fire a projectile at seven times the speed of sound with electromagnetic force and hit a target over 200km (125 miles) away \u2013 more than 10 times the typical range of a cannon.The technology faces a major challenge: the fast-moving projectile and high-voltage electric\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3166582\/us-holding-fire-rail-gun-development-china-takes-aim-planned?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 is to step up its testing of rail guns to an unprecedented level, according to a military researcher, as the US gives up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35559,"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\/35558"}],"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=35558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}