{"id":155537,"date":"2026-08-03T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155537"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:00:17","slug":"are-commercial-sea-drones-a-new-headache-for-pla-in-south-china-sea-and-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155537","title":{"rendered":"Are commercial sea drones a new headache for PLA in South China Sea and Taiwan Strait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSmall commercial sea drones that have shown they can monitor PLA warships in the South China Sea have emerged as a new potential challenge for Beijing in the disputed waters.<br \/>\nLast week, Seasats, a California-based autonomous vessel maker, released footage \u2013 which has been verified by Reuters \u2013 showing its Lightfish drone operating near a Chinese Type 052D guided-missile destroyer on June 16.<br \/>\nThe latest encounter reportedly took place 105km (65 miles) northwest of Luzon, the largest Philippine&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3362790\/are-commercial-sea-drones-new-headache-pla-south-china-sea-and-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 PostSmall commercial sea drones that have shown they can monitor PLA warships in the South China Sea have emerged as a new potential challenge&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\/155537"}],"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=155537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}