{"id":156898,"date":"2026-09-02T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156898"},"modified":"2026-09-02T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:00:09","slug":"tanker-transporter-controller-chinas-y-20-family-expands-its-pacific-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156898","title":{"rendered":"Tanker, transporter, controller: China\u2019s Y-20 family expands its Pacific reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen six Chinese heavy transport planes entered European airspace in April 2022, it was not just their cargo that drew international attention.<br \/>\nBound for Serbia, the Y-20 aircraft had flown thousands of kilometres from China carrying components of the Chinese-made FK-3 surface-to-air missile system.<br \/>\nA second wave of six aircraft followed, bringing the operation to 12 sorties in what was then China\u2019s biggest overseas airlift involving the strategic cargo plane.<br \/>\nComing just weeks after Russia&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3365357\/tanker-transporter-controller-chinas-y-20-family-expands-its-pacific-reach?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 PostWhen six Chinese heavy transport planes entered European airspace in April 2022, it was not just their cargo that drew international attention. Bound for&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\/156898"}],"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=156898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}