It would be surprising if Lockheed and other U.S. defense firms weren’t also developing metamaterials for military use. The Central Military Commission Joint Staff Department has called for the PLA to leverage the “tremendous potential” of AI in planning, decision support, and operational commandFootnote 109  . Opening this book is like opening a magnificent picture showing medicine, space, new energy, ocean, agriculture, military, and large-scale engineering the achievements of China's contemporary technological innovation and development. According to Xiao Tianliang (肖天亮), then vice-commandant of the PLA National Defence University (NDU), this new US offset strategy reflects a “technology surge” intended to maintain strategic superiority, anticipating that “whoever first achieves a breakthrough in and possesses disruptive technologies will ... seize the decisive strategic opportunity in military developmentFootnote 92  ”. The awkwardly named China National ­Aero-Technology Important & Export Corporation (CATIC) is the government-owned ­company tasked with selling China's military aircraft abroad. Although US teams continue to lead in quantum computing, China is a relative late-comer that has started to rapidly advance in this race to develop uniquely powerful computing capabilities that could break most existing forms of encryption. If China has ideas for a stealthy metamaterials, it’s likely America does, too. While the innovation strategy includes the absorption of Western technology, Beijing also emphasises innovation and disruptive advances in artificial intelligence, unmanned weapons systems and directed-energy weapons. If this is indeed the case, the PLAN has beaten the US Navy in deploying this disruptive new capabilityFootnote 107  . China is the emerging power having "the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time offset traditional U.S. military advantages absent U.S. counter ... Israeli media is under a military censorship order prohibiting the naming of China (most reports mention an “Asian nation”) as the nation which was the destination for the missiles. Previously, Chinese commercial aircraft have been powered by engines from the US or European nations, along with Russian technology for military jets. “As with many new technologies, there is sometimes a little hype when reporting preliminary results,” Sir John Pendry, a professor at Imperial College London, told The Daily Beast.Â, Pendry knows what he’s talking about. This recent, apparent success by China builds upon long-standing research undertaken by its researchers, under the leadership of Rear Admiral Ma Weiming. A researcher from the PLA’s new Strategic Support Force highlighted that as emerging technologies catalyse rapid changes, “whoever takes the lead will … decide the direction of the transformation of future warfareFootnote 93  ”. The Air Force was particularly excited by the development of lenses made of metamaterials. “Xi Jinping: C26 Comprehensively Advance in Innovation Driven Development Strategy, Promote New Leaps in National Defence and Military Construction” [习近平：全面实施创新驱动发展战略 推动国防和军队建设实现新跨越], Xinhua, 13 March 2016; accessed at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2016lh/2016-03/13/c_1118316426.htm. This promising … Stealth technology is one of the biggest advantages any military could wield, and now China is looking to out-gun other nations in the field after scientists unveiled a breakthrough … … To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, ... A technological breakthrough in naval propulsion will enable China’s second home-grown aircraft carrier to use the world’s most advanced jet launch system without having to … The critical factor for winning militarily could shift from information superiority to intelligence superiority (智能优势), and from the information domain to the cognitive domainFootnote 94  . Amid its ongoing economic development and military modernization, China has emerged as one of a handful of global leaders in the development of unmanned systems. Quantum technology leadership will give China an advantage in offensive intelligence operations and encryption. Of note, such authoritative texts as the 2013 edition of The Science of Military Strategy (SMS), published by the PLA’s Academy of Military Science, alluded to the “first signs” of future “unmanned, intangible, silent warfare” (“无人、无形、无声”战争) with an evolution towards intelligentisationFootnote 96  . Why publish a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. Some documents are only available in electronic format. The print versions may be 6 inch by 9 inch (or smaller) so they are difficult to read. The Chinese government is also building a National Laboratory for Quantum Information Science (量子信息科学国家实验室) in Anhui Province, which will become the world’s largest quantum research facilityFootnote 117  Footnote 118 . South China Morning Post in a 2018 story gave voice to the skeptics. If the Chinese team led by professor Luo Xiangang is telling the truth and their metamaterial works like they’ve claimed, China might seem poised to become the world leader in stealth technology, leapfrogging the United States and effectively canceling out a major American military advantage. Xiao Tianliang [肖天亮], “Seize the Reform Initiative in the Tide of Military Reform” [顺应军事变革潮流把握改革主动], PLA Daily, 5 January 2016; accessed at: http://jz.chinamil.com.cn/n2014/tp/content_6843416.htm. The overall shape of a plane or ship can greatly reduce its radar signature. That’s exactly the outcome the Chinese People’s Liberation Army wants, and has been spending big to obtain. With help from foreign concerns, the country launched several chip ventures in the 1980s and 1990s. Paul Huang, “By Snatching Up British Company, China Closes Gap on US Naval Supremacy”, Epoch Times, 15 December 2017; accessed at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/by-snatching-up-british-company-china-closes-gap-on-us-naval-supremacy_2389025.html. Found inside"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Although characterising China as a mere copycat would be reductionist, it has been clear that China’s approach to “indigenous innovation” has often been oxymoronic, given a strategy centred on the “introduction, digestion, assimilation, and re-innovation” (IDAR)Footnote 83  . Since the early 1980s, a prominent and consistent conclusion drawn from research on China's defense-industrial complex has been that China's defense-production capabilities are rife with weaknesses and limitations. 10 Breakthrough Futuristic Military Technologies to Watch. A team of Chinese scientists have created a new “metamaterial” that could dramatically shrink the radar signature of a jet or missile. “There is not a clear-cut definition of a metamaterial, so not everyone in the research community agrees with their claim,” a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences said. It was a small step to make metamaterials that can capture light better than conventional materials can. The drills were conducted at the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in north-central China. “China’s First Quantum Computer is Born” [中国首个量子计算机诞生], Xinhua, 3 May 2017; accessed at: http://www.chinanews.com/business/2017/05-03/8214872.shtml. In contrast to conventional, curved glass lenses, these “superlenses” can be made tiny and flat and yet still outperform the old glass models. Very little of the wave would return to the emitting sensor. China’s world first: Electromagnetic railgun goes to sea China has beaten the world creating a new superweapon capable of firing at hypersonic speeds … China has reportedly achieved a breakthrough in underwater technology that may allow submarines or torpedoes to travel at extremely high speeds. According to another AMS text, the degree of intelligentisation in the method for information operations is expected to “unceasingly increase”Footnote 98  . September 7, 2021. Found inside – Page 22It depends more on an accumulation of small insights and advances than on major technological breakthroughs.”35 This fixation in the analytical literature on major, large- scale military innovation is particularly evident in the ... Nor is it clear that Luo’s mesh is actually all that special. “There is debate in the research community about the value” of metamaterials under development by a research team at Southeast University in Nanjing, the newspaper explained. “Metamaterials first captured the public imagination in 2006, when John Pendry of Imperial College published two papers showing how to create a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak using the specially engineered materials.”. A group of scientists from China may have created a stealth material that could make future … “This approach uses the random distribution of local reflection phases of unit cells, which enables diffuse electromagnetic scattering.”. Military Tech. See also the official strategy released on innovation-driven development: “CCP State Council Releases the “National Innovation-Driven Development Strategy Guidelines” [中共中央 国务院印发《国家创新驱动发展战略纲要》], Xinhua, 19 May 2016; accessed at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2016-05/19/c_1118898033.htm. In addition, the Joint Staff Department has called for the application of big data, cloud computing, AI and other cutting-edge technologies in the construction of a joint-operations command systemFootnote 110  . This paper provides a quick overview of notable Chinese innovative advances in several domains, including unmanned systems, directed-energy weapons, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. The newspaper cited a statement Luo’s team posted on the academy’s website on July 15, 2019. India and the United States today sign the groundbreaking defense agreement BECA. Chinese scientists claim they have developed a new kind of material for making aircraft less detectable by radar. “Consequently, the radar cross section would be dramatically reduced,” the Chinese team asserted. Chinese law enforcement has also employed drones to conduct surveillance operations in Xinjiang. In October 2017, China carried out a test flight of an amphibious drone that could potentially ferry supplies to military installations in the South China Sea. For two decades now researchers in universities, government labs, and private companies all over the world have been tinkering with metamaterials and, in a few cases, actually making useful devices out of the weird substances.Â. In January 2017, Huang Wenhua (黄文华), the deputy-director of the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology (西北核技术研究所), received a first prize National Science and Technology Progress Award for his research on directed-energy weaponsFootnote 103  . But they are not revolutionary. Reported advances in HPM weapons seem to be striking, relative to the decidedly mixed US record of progress in this domain. As Christian Brose reveals in this urgent wake-up call, the future will be defined by artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and other emerging technologies that are revolutionizing global industries and are now poised to overturn the ... Rather, they created a mathematical model that describes a metamaterial with incredible stealth qualities.Â. ... marking an important breakthrough in the key technology of China's 500-tonne heavy-duty launch vehicle engine. See, for instance, the focus on “radical innovation” in the activities of the Committee of 100 in Radical Innovation. Chinese scientists claim they have developed a new kind of material for making aircraft less detectable by radar. November 11, 2015. This new, lab-made “metamaterial,” in essence a very fine mesh with microscopic etchings, could shrink the radar signature of a fighter jet, warship, or missile by a thousand times, claimed the scientists at the Chengdu-based Institute of Optics and Electronics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The conception of integrated military and civilian development was first presented in China back in the 1980s, at the early stage of China’s economic reforms. This book takes an active part in international cooperation for promoting the development of science and technology and the progress of human civilization. At present, stealth aircraft mainly rely on special geometry – their body shape – to deflect radar signals, but those designs can affect aerodynamic performance. But the development probably is not the breakthrough that some observers claim it is. While the United States spent years dithering over the future of its much-hyped electromagnetic railgun project, China ate its lunch. As China continues to advance its UAV technology, it is poised to play a dominant role in shaping industry trends. This second edition from the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI), seeks to provide a brief primer on the trends affecting these forces and provide basic information about their composition and role today.This publication outlines the ... These commercial uses may be less headline-grabbing than an invisibility shield, but they show that metamaterials are coming out of the lab and into everyday use. Chinese scientists claim they have developed a new kind of material for making aircraft less detectable by radar. Chinese researchers are working to network hypersonic weapons into a smart swarm for coordinated attacks, far more dangerous than the missiles that comprise it. China has made a breakthrough in quantum computing technology. Meanwhile, the Chinese private sector’s pursuit of self-driving cars has occurred alongside parallel efforts on intelligent unmanned ground vehicles, including robust efforts by NORINCO and several DARPA-like challenges to advance their developmentFootnote 101  Footnote 102 . The phrase wandaochaoche (弯道超车) implies literally (in the context of driving) overtaking someone around a bend, or metaphorically achieving rapid progress through cutting tightly around a corner. Right now, the Pentagon is particularly concerned that China and Russia could have made tremendous advances in hypersonic technology, which the U.S. military initially decided not to pursue years ago. Beijing’s “deliberate, state-sponsored” campaign of industrial espionage, which leverages licit and illicit means to acquire foreign technologies, has played an important role in the country’s recent military modernisationFootnote 80  . China’s strategy China has been involved in the IC industry for decades. Yu Dawei, “In China, Quantum Communications Comes of Age”, Caixin, 6 February 2015. The priority accorded to military innovation has become increasingly apparent in official statements and strategies. Stealth technology is one of the biggest advantages any military could wield, and now China is looking to out-gun other nations in the field after …. Images of the Long March 2C … China eyes technological breakthrough, tests 'cloak of invisibility' on regular fighter jets. The testing of … The new technology would be the most advanced jet launch system in the world that doesn’t use nuclear power, China's military said. This report from the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy examines trends in Chinese strategy, military spending, and military forces based on Chinese defense white papers and other official Chinese sources; US reporting by the Department of ... Wang Xuecheng [王雪诚], “Strategic Front-Line Technologies Will Reshape the Form of Future Warfare” [战略前沿技术将重塑未来战争形态], PLA Daily, 27 October 2017; accessed at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2017-10/27/c_129727619.htm?utm_content=buffere34e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer. At that time, Xi Jinping urged China to “vigorously advance military innovation” through technological innovation and “unceasing innovation” in military theoryFootnote 85  . In a mid-July official notice first widely reported by the Hong Kong South China Morning Post, the Chinese researchers claimed their mesh could reduce, by up to a thousand times, the radar signature of an object across a swath of the electromagnetic spectrum from 0.3 to 40 gigahertz. In this video, you will see some of the most advanced military technologies and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) you can only see in China. The Chinese government has placed emphasis through funding, reform, and societal status on science and technology as a fundamental part of the socio-economic development of the country as well as for national prestige. China leads in artificial intelligence. Several types of large Chinese military aircraft will have "breakthroughs" this year after years of development, state media reported, as China pushes its territorial claims in the region. Many military radars operate at around 10 gigahertz, meaning the Chinese metamaterial in concept works in exactly the frequency that’s most important for American air defenses. China is on track to create “a global, 24-hour, all-weather earth remote sensing system” by 2020, including satellites with EO, SAR, and ELINT payloads. Prof. Luo Xiangang and colleagues at the Institute of Optics and Electronics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Chengdu, said they had created the first-ever mathematical model to precisely describe the behavior of electromagnetic waves when they “strike a piece of metal engraved with microscopic patterns,” according to South China Morning Post. Found inside – Page 35... China's success in the commercial drone market will likely translate into technological breakthroughs with important military applications. Chinese military drones could become both cheaper and better than their competitors. The PLA is on track to field more advanced unmanned systems with growing degrees of autonomy, while also exporting these systems worldwide, thereby ensuring their proliferation to a range of state and non-state actors. Drones could become increasingly prominent in the maritime domainFootnote 100 to support neighbouring nations... 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