{"id":134639,"date":"2025-08-17T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134639"},"modified":"2025-08-17T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:00:14","slug":"can-chinas-hypersonic-drone-carrier-bring-nasas-scissor-wing-dream-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134639","title":{"rendered":"Can China\u2019s hypersonic drone carrier bring Nasa\u2019s \u2018scissor wing\u2019 dream to life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese aerospace engineers are revisiting a decades-old, largely abandoned aviation concept \u2013 the oblique rotating wing \u2013 and transforming it into a potential cornerstone of future warfare: an unstaffed hypersonic mother ship capable of flying at five times the speed of sound and unleashing a swarm of drones behind enemy lines.<br \/>\nDrawing inspiration from Nasa\u2019s quirky AD-1 experimental aircraft of the 1970s \u2013 a small jet-driven plane with a \u201cscissor wing\u201d that pivoted diagonally across the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3321844\/can-chinas-hypersonic-drone-carrier-bring-nasas-scissor-wing-dream-life?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 PostChinese aerospace engineers are revisiting a decades-old, largely abandoned aviation concept \u2013 the oblique rotating wing \u2013 and transforming it into a potential cornerstone&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\/134639"}],"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=134639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}