Matt Bruzzese

Oct 27, 2024 | defenseone.com | Matt Brazil |Matt Bruzzese |Peter W. Singer

Earlier this year, American investigators were tipped off about a plan to ship semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. The alarm was sounded after two Chicago-based buyers of a Dynatex DTX-MDB 150 "scribe and break" machine asked the California manufacturer to file export paperwork that omitted the machine’s final destination: Chengdu GaStone Technology Company, a firm in southwest China under U.S. sanction for an illegal 2021 scheme to purchase military-grade integrated circuits.

Mar 18, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Matt Bruzzese |Peter W. Singer

China’s Nascent Railgun Is Just the Tip of Its Shipboard R&D

Mar 15, 2024 | defenseone.com | Matt Bruzzese |Peter W. Singer

China’s researchers recently claimed to have developed a working electromagnetic railgun, potentially providing the PLA with one of the most disruptive new weapons of the 21st century. Whether they actually have overcome the technical issues that long stymied U.S. work in this space remains to be seen, but it is clear that the PLA research investment in electromagnetic and power-generation systems goes back well over a decade.

Feb 27, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Thomas Corbett |Matt Bruzzese |Peter W. Singer

China Is Building Its Own Starlink

Feb 26, 2024 | defenseone.com | Thomas Corbett |Peter W. Singer |Matt Bruzzese

Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email China launched a record 67 commercial rockets last year, second only to the United States’ 116—the vast majority for SpaceX’s Starlink. But Elon Musk isn’t the only one building a space-based network for communications, navigation, and sensing. A Nov. 23 launch from Xichang Satellite Launch Center carried a batch of satellites intended to lay the foundation for China’s own Starlink-like service.