{"id":126804,"date":"2021-08-27T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/did-chinese-scientists-just-bring-down-an-unmanned-plane-with-an-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon"},"modified":"2021-08-27T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:22:39","slug":"did-chinese-scientists-just-bring-down-an-unmanned-plane-with-an-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/did-chinese-scientists-just-bring-down-an-unmanned-plane-with-an-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon","title":{"rendered":"Did Chinese scientists just bring down an unmanned plane with an electromagnetic pulse weapon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-chinese-scientists-just-bring-down-an-unmanned-plane-with-an-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can this be true?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An unmanned aircraft was brought down by a powerful electromagnetic pulse in what could be the first reported test of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2161338\/china-developing-electromagnetic-rocket-greater-fire?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=partner&utm_content=3146380&utm_campaign=contentexchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">advanced new weapon<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n<p>A paper published in the Chinese journal <em>Electronic Information Warfare Technology<\/em> did not give details of the timing and location of the experiment, which are classified but it may be the country\u2019s first openly reported field test of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3140835\/chinese-nuclear-scientists-urge-readiness-electromagnetic-pulse?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=partner&utm_content=3146380&utm_campaign=contentexchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">China is racing to catch up in the field<\/a> after the US demonstrated a prototype EMP weapon that brought down 50 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3105670\/china-tests-swarm-suicide-drones-launched-truck-and-helicopters?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=partner&utm_content=3146380&utm_campaign=contentexchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">drones<\/a> with one shot in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can this be true? An unmanned aircraft was brought down by a powerful electromagnetic pulse in what could be the first reported test of an advanced new weapon in China. A paper published in the Chinese journal Electronic Information Warfare Technology did not give details of the timing and location of the experiment, which are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}