{"id":136357,"date":"2025-09-12T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136357"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:00:12","slug":"hull-numbers-on-pla-fleet-of-barges-mean-they-are-now-in-service-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136357","title":{"rendered":"Hull numbers on PLA fleet of barges mean they are now in service: analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA fleet of large barges in the People\u2019s Liberation Army has been assigned hull numbers, suggesting they have entered service in what would be Beijing\u2019s latest move to deter Taiwan militarily.<br \/>\nThree advanced specialised island-landing vessels that form part of the \u2018Dong Gong\u2019 were spotted by internet users docked at a beach in mainland China in June, each one bearing a hull number in the sequence 401, 402 and 403.<br \/>\nThe markings mean the ships serve in the PLA\u2019s Eastern Theatre Command, according&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3325278\/hull-numbers-pla-fleet-barges-mean-they-are-now-service-analyst?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 PostA fleet of large barges in the People\u2019s Liberation Army has been assigned hull numbers, suggesting they have entered service in what would be&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\/136357"}],"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=136357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}