Report: China building electromagnetic pulse weapons for use against U.S. carriers

I am so confused. Either this news story is inaccurate or Obama hasn’t yet sat down with the Chinese and used his incredible wisdom and charisma to convince them to give peace a chance. Well, as we wait for Obama to heal the planet and all of its inhabitants…

China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday.

Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Centerstudy on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China’s so-called “assassin’s mace” arsenal – weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces.

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