{"id":154876,"date":"2026-07-20T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154876"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:00:13","slug":"is-china-building-a-bigger-support-ship-for-its-future-type-004-carrier-battle-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154876","title":{"rendered":"Is China building a bigger support ship for its future Type 004 carrier battle group?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina appears to be developing one of its largest fast combat-support ships for the future long-range operations of its Type 004 aircraft carrier, which is still under construction.<br \/>\nCommercial satellite imagery captured on July 2, provided by Planet Labs and published by defence news outlet TWZ, shows construction progress at the Comec Longxue shipyard near Guangzhou and reveals fresh details of the vessel\u2019s layout.<br \/>\nThe images offer insight into how Beijing plans to keep future strike groups&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3361225\/china-building-bigger-support-ship-its-future-type-004-carrier-battle-group?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 PostChina appears to be developing one of its largest fast combat-support ships for the future long-range operations of its Type 004 aircraft carrier, which&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\/154876"}],"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=154876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}