{"id":156417,"date":"2026-08-22T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156417"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:00:05","slug":"chinese-j-16-fighters-arrive-in-egypt-ahead-of-eagles-of-civilisation-2026-joint-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156417","title":{"rendered":"Chinese J-16 fighters arrive in Egypt ahead of Eagles of Civilisation 2026 joint drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA fleet of Chinese J-16 fighters has arrived in Egypt ahead of a joint exercise that will be the aircraft\u2019s first-ever deployment to Africa.<br \/>\nThe planes and aviators taking part in the Eagles of Civilisation 2026 exercise arrived at an Egyptian airbase on Friday morning after a 6,000km (3,700-mile) journey that took nine hours and required the planes to refuel in mid-air, according to the People\u2019s Liberation Army.<br \/>\nIt added that the service personnel involved in the exercise had started&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3364913\/chinese-j-16-fighters-arrive-egypt-ahead-eagles-civilisation-2026-joint-drill?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 PostA fleet of Chinese J-16 fighters has arrived in Egypt ahead of a joint exercise that will be the aircraft\u2019s first-ever deployment to Africa.&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\/156417"}],"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=156417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}