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DragonFire: UK fires high-power laser at aerial targets for first time - with 'intense beam of light' able to cut through drones
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In what way?
Chinese tech is considered to be pretty good but honestly most of their tech has amounted to “paper dragons” so I’d love to see verified reports of whatever it is you’re referring to.
yes I know it’s paper tigers, paper dragons makes more sense for china IMO
Some people on lemmy have this weird idea that China is some super high tech future society where they're using fusion for all their power, have the fastest most complex computers in the world, medicine that cures all cancers and a fully functioning space program with a moon base.
Instead of, you know... About the same as every other developed nation.
And of course if you ask for any sources, it's either "I don't have to do your work for you" or "here's a source directly from the government from a state-sponsored lab and has only been corroborated by other state-sponsored labs and not a single person outside their team has access of any of the produced things"
And if you question a source, you're racist because clearly if they were white you would have believed it.
When the reality is that it’s mostly stolen western tech that’s then been iterated on from a position of disadvantage.
It takes generations to create the engineering and scientific foundation that allows the tech that the USA and other nations are capable of producing.
Not that china isn’t getting there or even there now but the reality is they’re still playing catch up. It will likely take a fundamental technological shift for them to leapfrog, or ANYONE to leapfrog the capabilities of “the west”
Just so I am clear I do believe it is absolutely possible for China to catch up and achieve that fundamental technological developmental shift I am referring to but I believe that it will be a lot “louder” when and if that happens, and as long as the USA is doing their thing it will be a back and forth if anything.
!remindme ten years 🤗