{"id":25933,"date":"2025-09-04T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=25933"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:52:32","slug":"ly-1-a-large-laser-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=25933","title":{"rendered":"LY-1: a\u2026 large laser system!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many things were impressive at the recent military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (which was designed to impress with a super-production by old Soviet standards that it certainly surpassed), but some caught more attention than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of them was the ship-borne high-power laser system called the LY-1, although the announcer&#8217;s description confused the situation, as it referred to it as a &#8220;naval system,&#8221; which brought to mind the appearance of such a system on the People&#8217;s Liberation Army Navy&#8217;s Type 071 LPD last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is estimated that this is a land application, although rather cumbersome, due to the giant vehicle that houses the power source, which may however be intended for marines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many things were impressive at the recent military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[161,7341],"class_list":["post-25933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-china","tag-defense-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25935,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions\/25935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}