{"id":157345,"date":"2026-09-12T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157345"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:00:05","slug":"why-plas-laser-equipped-type-19-vehicle-could-matter-in-a-taiwan-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157345","title":{"rendered":"Why PLA\u2019s laser-equipped Type 19 vehicle could matter in a Taiwan conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe People\u2019s Liberation Army may be seeking to give its frontline mechanised units mobile protection against the kind of drone-saturated battlefield that could emerge in a Taiwan conflict.<br \/>\nUnverified images posted on mainland Chinese social media on August 29 show a new variant of the Type 19 amphibious 8&#215;8 combat vehicle featuring a turret-mounted laser weapon and extra sensors alongside its standard autocannon.<br \/>\nJanes, an open-source defence intelligence provider, reported in 2023 that vehicles&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3367305\/why-plas-laser-equipped-type-19-vehicle-could-matter-taiwan-conflict?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 PostThe People\u2019s Liberation Army may be seeking to give its frontline mechanised units mobile protection against the kind of drone-saturated battlefield that could emerge&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\/157345"}],"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=157345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}