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China May Be Reverse-Engineering the Handheld Railgun
Small drones are the ultimate smart bombs: They can become portable, personal cruise missiles weighing five pounds or less able put a warhead on target miles away. Some, like the Israeli Hero-30, are already being deployed. But the next generation of such U.S. weapons will have advanced warheads that can hit targets from tanks to buildings. These will be based on a railgun weapons technology descriptively known as MAHEM.
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I wish they talked more about how China acquired the technology to reverse engineer it.