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CNO Argues For Law of the Sea Treaty To Offset China, Calls Railgun Not Rapid Prototyping

CNO Argues For Law of the Sea Treaty To Offset China, Calls Railgun Not Rapid Prototyping
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson, the 31st CNO. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Chief of Naval Operations on Wednesday said he approved of the U.S. ratifying the law of the Sea Treaty as a measure to help counter Chinese action in the South China Sea and also noted the railgun is a counterexample of how the Navy should not perform rapid prototyping of new technologies. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a “pretty good document” that gives states a “tremendous template” to manage resource disputes, particularly…

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