{"id":142201,"date":"2025-12-11T13:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142201"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:20:05","slug":"first-flight-of-chinas-giant-drone-carrier-jiu-tian-signals-pla-swarm-capacity-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142201","title":{"rendered":"First flight of China\u2019s giant drone carrier Jiu Tian signals PLA swarm capacity boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s massive aerial drone carrier the Jiu Tian has completed its first flight, adding to the potential swarming capacities of the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA).<br \/>\nThe Jiu Tian, which is itself a large drone, took to the air for the first time in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The report did not mention when this took place.<br \/>\nDesigned by the First Aircraft Institute of the state-owned aerospace giant Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC),&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3336098\/first-flight-chinas-giant-drone-carrier-jiu-tian-signals-pla-swarm-capacity-boost?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 PostChina\u2019s massive aerial drone carrier the Jiu Tian has completed its first flight, adding to the potential swarming capacities of the People\u2019s Liberation Army&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\/142201"}],"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=142201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}