{"id":139170,"date":"2025-10-27T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139170"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:00:17","slug":"why-chinas-j-16-hidden-dragon-makes-headlines-despite-rise-of-more-advanced-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139170","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s J-16 Hidden Dragon makes headlines despite rise of more advanced jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhile the world\u2019s air forces are racing to build sixth-generation stealth fighters, it was an older model that made the headlines earlier this month.<br \/>\nA Chinese J-16, a 4.5-generation multirole fighter, was reported by state media to have intercepted two unidentified foreign warplanes near China\u2019s east coast and to have performed a barrel roll over one of the planes.<br \/>\nReports said it may have got as close as 10 metres (33 feet) to the other plane during the manoeuvre last year, which was only&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3330388\/why-chinas-j-16-hidden-dragon-now-making-headlines-despite-rise-more-advanced-jets?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 PostWhile the world\u2019s air forces are racing to build sixth-generation stealth fighters, it was an older model that made the headlines earlier this month.&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\/139170"}],"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=139170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}