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Narrator: it did not

"Wow, you actually believe China? They always lie, the shell probably doesn't even exist, stop reading SeeSeePee propaganda"

• some lib about ten seconds before this round annihilates an aircraft carrier

This is great, it doesn't really matter that much if US can copy this technology because they already have complete dominance on naval power projection and artillery superiority against 99% of the world. The more countries opposed to US that can build this technology, the smaller America's military advantage becomes

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I mean I’m sure it’s partially meant to brag and warn.

Though the US government has a shortage of mandarin speakers and all their spies in china have been executed a few years ago, so the unit translating and interpreting these scientific articles must be very tiny and likely get little attention from the big brass. The majority of Americans will scoff because they believe that Chinese people still live in huts. It’s basically a futile attempt at bragging because China’s enemies are incompetent and victims of racism by their bosses lol

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the U.S. MIC is finally running headfirst into the Great Wall of Grift.

every other regional power will be using advanced smart weapons built with off the shelf Ali Express parts while the U.S. Empire is running the equivalent of ironclads (carriers) against dreadnoughts (smart/swarm weapons)

I thought e-weapons were supposed to be cheap

also about a decade ahead in reactor technology

The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China

When a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they were onto something big. They scrounged up tables and chairs, cleared out space in the parking lot for experiments and got to work.

They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades. The engineers pictured people plunking them down next to their air conditioners, attaching solar panels to them, and everyone living happily ever after off the grid.

"It was beyond promise," said Chris Howard, one of the engineers who worked there for a U.S. company called UniEnergy. "We were seeing it functioning as designed, as expected."

But that's not what happened. Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. And more than 5,200 miles away, a Chinese company is hard at work making the batteries in Dalian, China.

The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer. An investigation by NPR and the Northwest News Network found the federal agency allowed the technology and jobs to move overseas, violating its own licensing rules while failing to intervene on behalf of U.S. workers in multiple instances.

Now, China has forged ahead, investing millions into the cutting-edge green technology that was supposed to help keep the U.S. and its economy out front.

UniEnergy Technologies sold a few batteries in the U.S., but not enough to meet its requirements [of selling a certain number of batteries to the US]. The ones it did sell, including in one instance to the U.S. Navy, were made in China.