China has created a smart shell for kinetic energy weapons that could reshape the world’s military landscape.
This bullet can be fired from a railgun and can travel 2500 m in one second.
It receives signals from the BeiDou satellite navigation system, continuously adjusting flight path, with an error of less than 15 metres until it hits its target.
The weapon might not be enough to target small moving targets like tanks, but it is extremely precise regarding bigger targets like warships and ports.
The idea of a “dream shell” was first introduced by the US Navy in 2012, and research for developing the same went on for 5 years.
By 2021, the U.S gave up on the electromagnetic gun program, and no information is available on the fate of the GPS-guided shell project.
Chinese Scientists claim to have received no help from the West and yet independently developed what the U.S. could not.