{"id":157460,"date":"2026-09-15T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157460"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:01:39","slug":"taiwan-tests-us-made-mq-9b-drones-to-counter-pla-grey-zone-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157460","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan tests US-made MQ-9B drones to counter PLA \u2018grey-zone\u2019 operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan has begun flight testing its newly acquired MQ-9B drones, giving the island a long-range reconnaissance platform capable of monitoring People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) and grey-zone activities across vast stretches of surrounding waters.<br \/>\nThe first two of four MQ-9B SeaGuardians ordered from the United States took off from Hualien Air Base in eastern Taiwan on Monday, according to military sources.<br \/>\nIt was their first test flight since arriving in Taiwan by sea in June, following nearly three&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3367614\/taiwan-tests-us-made-mq-9b-drones-counter-pla-grey-zone-operations?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 begun flight testing its newly acquired MQ-9B drones, giving the island a long-range reconnaissance platform capable of monitoring People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA)&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\/157460"}],"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=157460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}