Chinese Maglev Test Vehicle Accelerates from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds.



    by Spadizzly

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    1. I assume it’s very similar to the new launch system on the US aircraft carriers. Now we just need a roller coaster to be made so we can all get whiplash.

    2. China got this while we got a bumbling ignorant hateful anti-American, anti-science, anti-education and anti-research administration.

    3. MarkMaynardDotcom on

      And we are cancelling solar and wind projects. The rest of the world is going to eat our lunch.

    4. Watch the same people saying a drone show is made to prepare war telling us this is to send bomb on the US…

    5. Maglev was the wave of the future… 30 years ago, wild how little implementation in North America

    6. I mean, its technically impressive, but it’s missing yknow, the train part. It wont be that fast once there’s a few hundred tons on it.

    7. That’s an empty low drag shell, once the cabin and everything else is mounted on the final it will probably have a much slower acceleration and will probably only reach a 2/3’s of the speed. Thats a test vehicle that’s probably set up to test stresses.

    8. Ok now if they were to build an enclosed hall over all the high-speed train tracks, that would be neat.

      Also a decade ago, Japan got the overall maglev speed record (experimental) at 603 km/h (375 mph). That video is like this one though if you speed it up by 1.2x ( source wikipedia )

      Also aren’t railguns essential maglev? ( Well Gauss guns according to the good comment below!)

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