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Yoon Seok-jun, Chamil, June 1, 2026<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
Why Are the U.S. and China Racing to Develop ‘Strange’ Weapons?<\/b>\n<\/div>\n
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\n In recent months, the U.S. and China have accelerated development of a range of unconventional weapons systems \u2014 a shift from their long-running competition over high-end, next\u2011generation platforms.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Rather than focusing solely on unmanned tanks, sixth\u2011generation fighters, new surface combatants and submarines, or medium\u2011range hypersonic missiles, both nations are reviving shelved programs, revisiting concepts once confined to the drawing board, and adapting technologies their rivals abandoned to fit emerging battlefield needs.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Military analysts say this trend goes beyond the cheap unmanned systems (LUCAS) that dominated recent conflicts. They point to fierce competition to close capability gaps for a set of unusual systems: 1) railguns, 2) WIG (ground\u2011effect) military aircraft or WIG sea drones inspired by Soviet designs, 3) nuclear\u2011battery\u2011powered torpedoes and recoverable UUVs launched from 533 mm torpedo tubes, and 4) converting carriers into drone\u2011only platforms.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Analysts cite several drivers behind the shift.\n<\/div>\n
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\n First, the changing character of war. Modern conflicts increasingly measure success by minimizing casualties and infrastructure damage on both sides. That reality favors niche, asymmetric tactics over high\u2011attrition, symmetric battles, pushing planners toward approaches that achieve effects while limiting collateral harm.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Second, changes in weapons and C4ISR. Advances in long\u2011range communications, autonomy and remote operations have enabled new, faster weapon concepts. Systems designed for rapid, decisive effects now deliver greater tempo and destructive power. Some Cold War\u2013era conventional concepts and hybrid weapons are getting second looks as lethality and reach improve.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Third, the rise of artificial intelligence. Concepts once stopped by human or biological limits are now being revisited because AI can help solve algorithmic and operational problems that previously prevented systems from reaching operational maturity.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Finally, the hunt for game changers. While many experts once saw fourth\u2011industrial\u2011revolution dual\u2011use technologies as the decisive advantage, the current focus is how to apply military science to achieve operational completeness \u2014 and AI is central to that effort. Renewed technical promise and shifting funding priorities mean programs that stalled for budget or operational reasons are getting new attention.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Below are some of the unconventional systems that have drawn the most attention.\n<\/div>\n
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\n First, renewed railgun efforts. On Dec. 22 last year, former President Donald Trump announced plans to field a railgun aboard a roughly 30,000\u2011ton “Trump\u2011class” next\u2011generation warship.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>Source = YouTube @The Daily Aviation<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n The U.S. Navy has chased solutions to the range limits of naval guns for decades, exploring extended\u2011range guided munitions in the 1990s and pursuing railguns for the Zumwalt program. By 2021 the Navy had produced prototypes and run sea trials. But technical hurdles \u2014 rapid barrel wear, massive power demands and sensitivity of electromagnetic components \u2014 prompted Congress to cut funding in 2022. The Pentagon has since resumed railgun work aimed at equipping the proposed Trump\u2011class ship.\n<\/div>\n
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\n On May 31, 2026, Japan\u2019s Maritime Self\u2011Defense Force mounted a roughly 40 kW self\u2011contained railgun on the JS Asuka test ship and fired a ~0.3 kg projectile at speeds between Mach 6.5 and 7 in sea trials. DARPA personnel reportedly visited Japan to discuss cooperation.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>Source = Naval News<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n China began an X\u2011railgun program in the mid\u20112010s and commercial satellite imagery suggested prototype work by 2014. Reporting in 2018 indicated a prototype railgun mounted on a Type 072 hull with generator containers on deck, and last year Asia Times reported China may be testing a system capable of firing a roughly 15 kg projectile at Mach 7 out to about 400 km.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Railguns offer hypersonic kinetic strikes without explosive warheads and remove the need for large magazines below deck. Their appeal is long\u2011range, high\u2011speed impact. But persistent drawbacks \u2014 limited barrel life, electromagnetic failure modes and the need for precise hit probabilities without a warhead \u2014 remain. Still, both navies press on.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Second, renewed interest in WIG (ground\u2011effect) military aircraft. Both Washington and Beijing are exploring concepts echoing the Soviet Project 903 Lun\u2011class Ekranoplan.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 <\/span>Soviet Project 903 Lun\u2011class Ekranoplan \/ Aero Space Global News<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n On May 25, The War Zone reported China\u2019s state shipbuilder research institute No. 711 produced a large WIG dubbed the “Bohai Sea Monster,” fitted with four turbojet engines on its wings, and conducted sea trials. The outlet suggested the platform could offer transport capability comparable to a C\u2011130.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Earlier reporting predicted China\u2019s AR\u20116000 seaplane family could be adapted into low\u2011altitude WIG platforms for logistics to South China Sea outposts, SAR, ASW reconnaissance and even long\u2011range strike roles. May reporting noted a Bohai Sea Monster variant with turboprops and multiple wing hardpoints, fueling speculation on sensors, auxiliary tanks or LUCAS payloads.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 <\/span>‘Bohai Sea Monster’ WIG military craft \/ Meta\u2011Defense<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n Analysts see primary roles for such platforms in combat search\u2011and\u2011rescue (CSAR), maritime patrol and coast guard support, logistics to artificial islands, and as a low\u2011altitude launch platform for long\u2011range anti\u2011ship strikes.\n<\/div>\n
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\n The U.S. path differs. The War Zone reported last April that the Navy, with DoD R&D backing, developed a WIG unmanned surface vehicle carrying roughly 50 lb of destructive payload, capable of about 80 kts and about 100 miles, intended for swarm operations. Budget documents suggest the prototype met only about 70% of required operational capability (ROC) for Navy and Coast Guard needs, and funding shortfalls likely shelved the program in the 2027 budget.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Aurora Flight Sciences, with DARPA, proposed the Liberty Lifter \u2014 a WIG heavy transport designed to fly about 30 m above sea level in sea state 5 \u2014 as a low\u2011altitude alternative to high\u2011altitude airlift. The Navy judged it couldn\u2019t match C\u2011130 capability, but the Marine Corps found the concept attractive for expeditionary and amphibious operations where low\u2011altitude transit lowers exposure to enemy air defenses.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 <\/span>Liberty Lifter WIG heavy transport concept illustration \/ DARPA<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n Analysts note a shift in Indo\u2011Pacific naval concepts toward littoral expedition operations rather than purely deep\u2011water campaigns. In that environment, asymmetric low\u2011altitude WIG transports fit urgent logistics and rapid response needs and could see accelerated development.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Third, nuclear\u2011battery torpedoes and recoverable UUVs. The U.S. and China are competing for undersea dominance across the Pacific. In July 2022 the South China Morning Post reported China had developed a disposable, nuclear\u2011battery\u2011powered torpedo modeled on Russia\u2019s Poseidon.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Russia first unveiled a roughly 100\u2011ton nuclear\u2011armed torpedo concept in 2018, and Moscow reportedly commissioned Khabarovsk\u2011class submarines to carry such systems by late 2025.\n<\/div>\n
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\n The U.S. pursued an asymmetric approach. Under the Razorback effort, developers adapted the REMUS 600 UUV into a Yellow Moray underwater vehicle that Virginia\u2011 and Ohio\u2011class submarines could deploy and recover through 533 mm tubes to perform ISR against adversary SSBNs, UUVs or high\u2011speed nuclear torpedoes. The Yellow Moray concept reportedly weighs about 530 lb, can operate to roughly 200 m depth and sustain around 70 hours of underwater endurance.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 <\/span>REMUS 600 UUV \/ Naval News<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 <\/span>Concept illustration of Yellow Moray launched from a Virginia\u2011class 533 mm tube \/ MercoPress<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n U.S. reporting indicates mechanical and integration challenges hampered efforts to reliably recover REMUS\u2011based vehicles into 533 mm tubes. Those issues kept speed, endurance and range below ROC, and Congress did not fund Razorback R&D in the 2026 budget, pausing further trials.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Australia and the U.K. are pursuing similar recoverable UUV concepts \u2014 Australia\u2019s Rat Trap and the U.K.\u2019s plans to field comparable systems on future AUKUS and Astute\/Dreadnought submarines \u2014 with AI integration planned. Analysts expect allied navies to keep developing non\u2011expendable undersea ISR tools launched and retrieved via 533 mm tubes as an asymmetric countermeasure.\n<\/div>\n
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\n China, meanwhile, reportedly modified the HSU\u2011001 UUV propulsion to a single\u2011use nuclear battery and is testing a long\u2011range, high\u2011speed torpedo concept with reported speeds near 30 kt, endurance around 200 hours and ranges exceeding 10,000 km \u2014 a capability some analysts view as an asymmetric strike threat against U.S. forward bases in the Indo\u2011Pacific.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 HSU\u2011001 UUV \/ CCTV\n<\/div>\n
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\n Fourth, China\u2019s unmanned\u2011aircraft\u2011only carrier. China began converting a Type 075\u2011derived hull into a Type 076 unmanned carrier and launched it on Dec. 27, 2024. Beijing says it is testing unmanned launch and recovery and at\u2011sea unmanned operations \u2014 a first for a purpose\u2011built drone carrier.\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span>\u25b2 China\u2019s Type 076 unmanned\u2011drone carrier \/ South China Morning Post<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n Reporting indicates the Type 076 incorporates one EMALS catapult similar to the Ford class, three hybrid electric\u2011hydraulic arresting systems and an unmanned aircraft elevator of unspecified capacity. It reportedly can carry WZ\u20117 reconnaissance UAVs (about 13 m long, wingspans ~14\u201324 m) and GJ\u201111J carrier strike UAVs. Beijing also appears to plan MUM\u2011T and loyal\u2011wingman concepts using two\u2011seat J\u201120 variants operating in concert with carrier and land bases.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Analysts note Beijing converted single\u2011seat J\u201120s into two\u2011seat variants in 2021 with MUM\u2011T roles in mind, and they expect WZ\u20117 and GJ\u201111J assets aboard the Type 076 to help China project air power over parts of the Pacific.\n<\/div>\n
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\n In short, the U.S. and China now compete not just on expensive next\u2011gen platforms but also on lower\u2011cost, asymmetric systems that could become operational game changers. Observers say China may enjoy an edge because it faces fewer budgetary constraints than U.S. programs subject to congressional oversight, but both countries are likely to push these unconventional programs forward.\n<\/div>\n
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Author Yoon Seok\u2011jun is a visiting research fellow at the Korea Institute for Military Affairs,<\/span><\/i>\n<\/div>\n
a defense ministry policy adviser and a retired navy colonel.<\/span><\/i>\n<\/div>\n

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