Chinese naval scientists fall in love with the ‘big guns’ on Trump-class warship

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Chinese naval scientists have shown renewed interest in large-calibre guns on Trump's warship designs, suggesting these weapons may play a critical role in future naval warfare. The paper published in the Chinese journal Command Control & Simulation discusses countering emerging threats using battleship-era artillery.

US President Donald Trump’s vision of new warships bristling with huge-calibre guns – widely mocked as a billionaire’s vanity project and a throwback to the battleship era of the second world war – has received an unexpected nod from military scientists in China. In a paper published last month by the Chinese peer-reviewed journal Command Control & Simulation, the authors suggested that large-calibre naval guns could have a critical role in future warfare by countering the growing threat of...