{"id":156177,"date":"2026-08-17T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156177"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:04:02","slug":"taiwan-teams-up-with-us-start-up-on-underwater-drones-to-boost-islands-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156177","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan teams up with US start-up on underwater drones to boost island\u2019s defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan has signed a deal with US defence start-up Vatn Systems to develop autonomous underwater vehicles and strengthen its asymmetric warfare capabilities amid growing military pressure from Beijing.<br \/>\nThe agreement with the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) \u2013 the island\u2019s government-funded top weapons developer \u2013 is the latest in a series of moves to expand Taiwan\u2019s unmanned underwater capabilities.<br \/>\nUnder the memorandum of understanding signed last week, NCSIST and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3364328\/taiwan-teams-us-start-underwater-drones-boost-islands-defences?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 PostTaiwan has signed a deal with US defence start-up Vatn Systems to develop autonomous underwater vehicles and strengthen its asymmetric warfare capabilities amid growing&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\/156177"}],"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=156177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}