{"id":153288,"date":"2026-06-21T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153288"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:00:06","slug":"red-hawk-rising-how-the-z-20-family-is-plugging-chinas-chronic-defence-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153288","title":{"rendered":"Red Hawk rising: how the Z-20 family is plugging China\u2019s chronic defence gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTelling a Harbin Z-20 and a Sikorsky UH-60 \u201cBlack Hawk\u201d apart can be challenging \u2013 the two helicopters look almost identical and their dimensions are very similar.<br \/>\nThe striking resemblance underscores China\u2019s decades-long effort to close the technological gap with the United States and Russia in the important aviation sector of helicopters.<br \/>\nYet, there are differences: the Z-20 has five main rotor blades compared with the UH-60\u2019s four, and its cabin features two front windows instead of the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3357822\/red-hawk-rising-how-z-20-family-plugging-chinas-chronic-defence-gaps?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 PostTelling a Harbin Z-20 and a Sikorsky UH-60 \u201cBlack Hawk\u201d apart can be challenging \u2013 the two helicopters look almost identical and their dimensions&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\/153288"}],"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=153288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}