{"id":134780,"date":"2025-08-19T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134780"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:12:27","slug":"treat-drones-like-bullets-taiwan-seeks-around-50000-uavs-over-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134780","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Treat drones like bullets\u2019: Taiwan seeks around 50,000 UAVs over two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan is moving to buy nearly 50,000 drones over the next two years as it seeks to bolster its asymmetric combat capabilities against mounting military pressure from Beijing.<br \/>\nThe move comes as the island\u2019s military prepares to classify unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as consumables to accelerate procurement \u2013 a policy that mirrors a recent shift by the United States.<br \/>\nAccording to a recent tender notice published on the Taiwanese government\u2019s procurement website, the defence ministry\u2019s Armaments&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3322406\/treat-drones-bullets-taiwan-seeks-50000-new-uavs-over-two-years-boost-defences?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 PostTaiwan is moving to buy nearly 50,000 drones over the next two years as it seeks to bolster its asymmetric combat capabilities against mounting&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\/134780"}],"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=134780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}