Video showcases China's road-mobile electromagnetic catapult launching an aircraft for the first timeThe footage comes from a now-deleted social media post from the Beijing Institute of Technology's School of Mechanical EngineeringLeverages China's existing EMALS tech by miniaturizing what it already uses on its aircraft carrierChina seems to have solved one of the biggest challenges modern drones face: deploying without a runway anywhere on the planet, thanks to a miniaturized version of the EMALS catapults found on its newest aircraft carrier.A short video clip that surfaced towards the tail end of last month, from a social media post by the Beijing…