NP - China's Bleeding Edge Naval tech

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Article making its rounds on social media… 
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA4100/RRA4107-1/RAND_RRA4107-1.pdf


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On Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at 5:10 PM, Cagliostro_the_Impossible via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today"
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> On Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at 4:15 AM, matthew cissell mccissell at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Howdy folks,
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> > Since we're not a strict literary crowd and do wander into tech talk, I
> > thought I might pass something along.
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> > It seems that China has taken a rather significant step forward, they have
> > developed electro-magnetic catapults for use on their carriers that work
> > with all types of planes/ drones, even the Chinese stealth plane. This is
> > big because it puts them ahead of the US. Although Unc Sam has EM
> > catapults, they don't work with the US Stealth planes and the sortie/ hr
> > rate is lower. The Chinese can have all their birds in the air much faster.
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBr0zOE5930
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> > I got this from a YT channel called Inside China Business operated by a US
> > expat in CHina named Kevin Walmsley. I've been watching him for a while now
> > and his analysis is very good. He mostly looks at supply chains and how
> > China has positioned itself to identify a market and dominate or
> > consolidate its position (e.g., setting up direct purchase agreements with
> > African cocoa growers and other Roads and bridges programs that have helped
> > them establish the BRICs).
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> > Ciao
> > mc otis
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