{"id":187926,"date":"2024-04-22T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/china-working-on-super-fast-submarines-powered-by-lasers"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:45:27","slug":"china-working-on-super-fast-submarines-powered-by-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/china-working-on-super-fast-submarines-powered-by-lasers","title":{"rendered":"China Working on Super-Fast Submarines Powered by Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-working-on-super-fast-submarines-powered-by-lasers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In China, scientists say they\u2019re developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3259875\/chinese-scientists-close-laser-propulsion-superfast-silent-submarines\" class=\"\"><em>South China Morning Post<\/em> reports,<\/a> engineers at the Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province \u2014 where, notably, China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/english.hrbeu.edu.cn\/Research.htm\" class=\"\">first experimental submarine<\/a> was developed \u2014 claim that the country\u2019s military is close to achieving this colossal feat.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the burgeoning technology is ingenious: lasers generate plasma underwater, which then creates a so-called \u201cdetonation wave\u201d to propel a submarine vessel forward. As the <em>SCMP<\/em> notes, Japanese researchers first proposed this sort of laser propulsion methodology 20 years ago, and in China, scientists have been trying to figure out how to hack it for <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/oe\/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-22-14-17532&id=296013\" class=\"\">at least a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, scientists say they\u2019re developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine. As the South China Morning Post reports, engineers at the Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province \u2014 where, notably, China\u2019s first experimental submarine was developed \u2014 claim that the country\u2019s military is close to achieving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187926","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=187926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}