{"id":146272,"date":"2026-02-16T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146272"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:00:17","slug":"why-the-growing-network-of-american-mq-9-drones-is-a-challenge-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146272","title":{"rendered":"Why the growing network of American MQ-9 drones is a challenge for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAmerica\u2019s increasing use of MQ-9 drones near China poses a challenge to Beijing and makes it more urgent for the People\u2019s Liberation Army to improve counter-reconnaissance, according to military experts.<br \/>\nThe MQ-9 Reaper can carry out both reconnaissance and strike missions.<br \/>\nIt has been used for numerous high-profile operations, including the 2020 assassination of Iranian major general Qassem Soleimani. And it has been deployed as part of the US military\u2019s surveillance network in the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3343673\/why-growing-network-american-mq-9-drones-challenge-china?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 PostAmerica\u2019s increasing use of MQ-9 drones near China poses a challenge to Beijing and makes it more urgent for the People\u2019s Liberation Army to&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\/146272"}],"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=146272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}