{"id":136979,"date":"2025-09-22T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136979"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:00:17","slug":"the-pla-turned-a-soviet-era-fighter-jet-into-a-drone-that-could-swarm-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136979","title":{"rendered":"The PLA turned a Soviet-era fighter jet into a drone that could swarm Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe People\u2019s Liberation Army has revealed a combat drone \u2013 converted from a retired 1950s J-6 fighter jet \u2013 that could be used for a swarm attack in a potential conflict across the Taiwan Strait.<br \/>\nThe drone was unveiled at the Changchun air show in northeast China, which opened on Friday and finishes on Tuesday.<br \/>\nIts appearance has confirmed years of speculation that the PLA was trying to repurpose its legacy fleet of J-6s.<br \/>\nChina built thousands of the warplanes \u2013 based on the Soviet MiG-19 \u2013 from&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3326390\/pla-turned-soviet-era-fighter-jet-drone-could-be-used-swarm-taiwan?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 PostThe People\u2019s Liberation Army has revealed a combat drone \u2013 converted from a retired 1950s J-6 fighter jet \u2013 that could be used for&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\/136979"}],"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=136979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}