{"id":143099,"date":"2025-12-26T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143099"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:00:14","slug":"is-china-quietly-preparing-cargo-ships-to-transform-into-military-vessels-in-case-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143099","title":{"rendered":"Is China quietly preparing cargo ships to transform into military vessels in case of war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostImages of a cargo ship in Shanghai carrying containerised vertical launchers, sensors and self-defence systems have spread online and prompted discussion for apparently showing China\u2019s capacity to convert civilian cargo vessels to military purposes.<br \/>\nThe circulated images show vertical launch systems, rotary phased-array radars, over-the-horizon radars, close-in weapon systems and decoy launchers mounted atop containers on a cargo vessel.<br \/>\nThis configuration appears to be a temporary installation,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3337842\/china-quietly-preparing-cargo-ships-transform-military-vessels-case-war?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 PostImages of a cargo ship in Shanghai carrying containerised vertical launchers, sensors and self-defence systems have spread online and prompted discussion for apparently showing&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\/143099"}],"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=143099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}