{"id":186471,"date":"2024-03-31T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/chinas-new-ev-based-catapult-can-fire-a-30-ton-plane-in-2-1-seconds"},"modified":"2024-03-31T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:33:01","slug":"chinas-new-ev-based-catapult-can-fire-a-30-ton-plane-in-2-1-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/chinas-new-ev-based-catapult-can-fire-a-30-ton-plane-in-2-1-seconds","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new EV-based catapult can fire a 30-ton plane in 2.1 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tl2HxaG1Teg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new, powerful Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) using technology found in electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The catapult can launch a 30-tonne projectile from 0 to 230 feet\/s (0 to 70 m\/s) in around 2.1 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by a team of scientists and engineers in Beijing, the new system could slash the cost of aircraft carrier EMALS catapults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new, powerful Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) using technology found in electric vehicles. The catapult can launch a 30-tonne projectile from 0 to 230 feet\/s (0 to 70 m\/s) in around 2.1 seconds. Developed by a team of scientists and engineers in Beijing, the new system could slash the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186471","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}