I am trying to reconcile your statement to his "He emphasized that China's catapult-assisted take-off technology in hand is no inferior to that of America, and is even more advanced."
The facts are , the US testing to-date is showing that under operating environment there are major test issues surfacing that goes beyond some lab type environment. In the absence of test details, I am having a problem differentiating between propaganda and reality.
I am guessing the Chinese are "translating" the knowledge they learned from the maglev train set system in Shanghai to the EMALS. To the chinese that's a mature technology that's been proven and thoroughly studied.
Alleged theft of Transrapid technology
In April 2006, new announcements by Chinese officials planning to cut maglev rail costs by a third stirred some strong comments by various German officials and more diplomatic statements of concern from Transrapid officials.
reported that the
China Daily had quoted the State Council encouraging engineers to "learn and absorb foreign advanced technologies while making further innovations."
After that news (that was back in 2006) and probably under much under the table arm twisting the German agreed to a limited
with China. The first Chinese-built four-car vehicle containing German core components and technology went into service in January 2011.
So, the chinese basically knows how to build maglev system that can hurl several hundred tonnes to a 430 km/h speed; granted it can only reach that top speed after 2 minutes, but an aircraft is a whole lot lighter than a carriage train sets and aircraft only needs 266 km/h to take off; so it is not impossible to translate that tech over.
