Chinese military researchers say large naval guns could be useful against drone swarms, giving some support to a part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for a new class of battleships.
The researchers looked at shells that can explode close to a group of drones and spread thousands of fragments. They say this could allow one shell to damage more than one drone without hitting each drone directly.
The study was published last month in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Command Control & Simulation.
The proposed battleships would carry 9 large naval guns, along with a large number of missiles and other electromagnetic weapons.
Chinese researchers test the idea
Wang Lei and his team from PLA’s Dalian Naval Academy studied how large-calibre guns could be used against a group of small unmanned weapons.
They did not treat the shell as a weapon that had to hit one drone. Instead, they looked at what would happen if the shell exploded
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