{"id":145761,"date":"2026-02-07T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145761"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:00:08","slug":"black-hawk-to-drone-new-frontier-in-us-rivalry-with-beijing-over-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145761","title":{"rendered":"Black Hawk to drone: new frontier in US rivalry with Beijing over Taiwan Strait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US is converting Cold War-era helicopters into drones, a move defence experts say could play a \u201ccritical role\u201d in any conflict with Beijing over the Taiwan Strait.<br \/>\nThe PLA has also been retrofitting outdated aircraft to act as uncrewed drones, with both militaries unveiling similar systems within a month of each other last year.<br \/>\nThe S-70UAS U-Hawk, a fully autonomous helicopter based on the UH-60 Black Hawk, was first showcased last October at an annual American military event, where it was&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3342774\/black-hawk-drone-new-frontier-us-rivalry-beijing-over-taiwan-strait?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 US is converting Cold War-era helicopters into drones, a move defence experts say could play a \u201ccritical role\u201d in any conflict with Beijing&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\/145761"}],"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=145761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}