{"id":14607,"date":"2021-07-10T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=14607"},"modified":"2021-07-10T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T22:00:18","slug":"why-has-chinas-pla-started-sending-grandpa-fighter-jets-to-test-taiwans-air-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=14607","title":{"rendered":"Why has China\u2019s PLA started sending \u2018grandpa fighter jets\u2019 to test Taiwan\u2019s air defences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Chinese military\u2019s use of ageing J-7 jets in a Taiwan fly-past last month has raised questions about why the second-generation fighters were deployed alongside more modern warplanes.Military sources raised the possibility that the planes had been converted into drones, which offer a cost-efficient way of honing the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s combat drills and testing Taiwan\u2019s response, and added they may also have been a way of testing whether all the island\u2019s warplanes have resumed\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3140627\/why-has-chinas-pla-started-sending-grandpa-fighter-jets-test?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Chinese military\u2019s use of ageing J-7 jets in a Taiwan fly-past last month has raised questions about why the second-generation fighters were deployed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14608,"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\/14607"}],"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=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}