{"id":142705,"date":"2025-12-19T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142705"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:00:10","slug":"landmark-in-air-refuelling-test-extends-chinas-drone-swarm-delivery-range-to-us-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142705","title":{"rendered":"Landmark in-air refuelling test extends China\u2019s drone swarm delivery range to US homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNorthwestern Polytechnical University has conducted what could be China\u2019s first openly reported autonomous aerial refuelling flight test, according to scientists involved in the project.<br \/>\nTwo unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were used in the refuelling tests. One served as the tanker with a refuelling pod and the other as the receiver.<br \/>\nIn high-speed formation flights, the receiver autonomously located, tracked and docked with the tanker under extreme conditions using a highly robust&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336988\/landmark-air-refuelling-test-extends-chinas-drone-swarm-delivery-range-us-homeland?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 PostNorthwestern Polytechnical University has conducted what could be China\u2019s first openly reported autonomous aerial refuelling flight test, according to scientists involved in the project.&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\/142705"}],"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=142705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}