{"id":49,"date":"2013-03-26T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-03-26T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:24:30","slug":"game-of-drones-china-stepping-up-drone-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Game of Drones China stepping up drone deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY:\u00a0<a title=\"View all posts by Bill Gertz\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/bill-gertz\/\" rel=\"author\">Bill Gertz<\/a><br \/>\n<time datetime=\"2013-03-26T04:59:33+00:00\">March 26, 2013 4:59 am<\/time><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/game-of-drones\/\">http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/game-of-drones\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle forces with a new Predator-like armed drone and a new unmanned combat aircraft amid growing tensions with neighbors in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>New unarmed drone deployments include the recent stationing of reconnaissance and ocean surveillance drones in Northeast Asia near Japan and the Senkaku islands and along China\u2019s southern coast. Drones also are planned for the South China Sea where China has been encroaching on international waters and bullying nations of that region in asserting control over international waters, said officials familiar with intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China's CH-4 armed drone disclosed for the first time in November \/ Source: Reuben Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2013\/03\/Reuben-Johnson.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnmanned aerial vehicles are emerging as critical enablers for PLA long range precision strike operations,\u201d said Mark Stokes, a former military intelligence official now with the Project 2049 Institute. \u201cA general operational PLA requirement appears to be persistent surveillance of fixed and moving targets out to 3,000 kilometers of Chinese shores.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY:\u00a0Bill Gertz March 26, 2013 4:59 am http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/game-of-drones\/ China\u2019s military is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle forces with a new Predator-like armed drone and a new unmanned combat aircraft amid growing tensions with neighbors in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials. New unarmed drone deployments include the recent stationing of reconnaissance and ocean surveillance drones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}