Here is Henri K take on the subject. Most likely it was tested at Bohai sea
The Chinese electromagnetic gun passes its first test at sea?
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, the new electromagnetic gun developed for the Chinese navy would have already passed its first naval test, if our interpretation of an article appeared yesterday is correct.
ZHANG Xiao, Chinese Navy Researcher and Naval Electromagnetic Cannon Project Leader (Photo: Chinese Navy)
According to
, about a
PLA Naval University of Engineering (海军 工程 大学) researcher specializing in the field of electromagnetic launch, a "new naval weapon system" has (recently) succeeded test as soon as it is first started on the ship.
The researcher in question is called ZHANG Xiao (张晓) and she is responsible for both the general simulation and the maintenance of the "electrical sources" of the said system. The article also mentions his many technical achievements in the field, including a "power supply allowing multiple shots" that went into production series, and "the largest in the world".
Further research on ZHANG shows that since January 2015 it has been leading the development of hybrid energy storage technologies for "electromagnetic rail launching", a project funded directly by the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). a foundation attached to the State Council which finances part of the country's civil-military research.
, when the Chinese researcher joined
PLA Naval University of Engineeringand the project of the electromagnetic gun for the Chinese navy was officially launched, also focus essentially on an "electromagnetic launching system". on rail ".
Everything leads us to believe that ZHANG is working on a project of a naval electromagnetic gun (of railgun type visibly), more precisely on the part of electrical power supply, and it is the same gun seen in Wuhan since October. last year.
The Chinese electromagnetic gun, installed on a LST transformed into test bench (Photos: HSH)
For now, it is unclear whether the success of the first test of this electromagnetic gun referred to in the article by the Chinese navy concerns only the subsystems of power supply and electrical distribution, or the weapon system has already made its first shot at the sea.
We only know that more than 200 people from about 20 Chinese institutions participated in the tests, and that the test would have taken place some parts between the East China Sea and Bohai Bay, since an expert who was On the spot at the time of the test and quoted by the article evoked a place "where the fleet of Beiyang had been humiliated but now it is here that we see the hope ..." ¹.
To be continued.
Henri K.
¹ - The Beiyang Fleet, one of the four Chinese regional fleets at the end of the Qing Dynasty, was destroyed by the Japanese imperial fleet during the first Sino-Japanese War (August 1, 1894 - April 17, 1895).