{"id":130380,"date":"2025-06-02T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130380"},"modified":"2025-06-02T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:00:22","slug":"china-adds-aerial-refuelling-to-pilot-training-in-move-to-boost-combat-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130380","title":{"rendered":"China adds aerial refuelling to pilot training in move to boost combat readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s air force has introduced aerial refuelling to its pilot training programme as the People\u2019s Liberation Army tries to step up combat readiness and long-range capabilities.<br \/>\nThe move was highlighted in a report by state broadcaster CCTV on Friday that included footage from a PLA training video. It showed instructors from the PLA Air Force\u2019s Shijiazhuang Flight Academy piloting two J-10 fighter jets in a refuelling drill, supported by a YU-20 tanker.<br \/>\nThe J-10 \u2013 seen as China\u2019s answer to the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3312682\/china-adds-aerial-refuelling-pilot-training-move-boost-combat-readiness?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s air force has introduced aerial refuelling to its pilot training programme as the People\u2019s Liberation Army tries to step up combat readiness and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}