{"id":14896,"date":"2025-05-19T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=14896"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:22:46","slug":"chinas-drone-dominance-jiu-tian-carrier-to-enable-global-uav-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/analysis\/defense\/chinas-drone-dominance-jiu-tian-carrier-to-enable-global-uav-missions\/2025\/05\/19\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s drone dominance: Jiu Tian carrier to enable Global UAV missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Super-high altitude UAV with 7,000km range and ability to release up to 100 units of small drones will take off on first mission by June-end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">BEIJING,China.May 19(SCMP) &#8211; China\u2019s \u201cdrone carrier\u201d Jiu Tian will take off for its first mission by the end of June, laying the groundwork for the Chinese air force to extend its range of unmanned aerial combat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The news was circulated by Chinese media on the weekend, with state broadcaster CCTV confirming the mission on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The first mission flight will mark the beginning of a series of tests before the aircraft is deployed by the\u00a0<a class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/china-military?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" target=\"_self\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\" data-qa=\"Component-Text\">People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA)<\/span><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\n<div class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The Jiu Tian \u2013 whose name means \u201chigh sky\u201d \u2013 is a super-high altitude, long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that\u00a0<a class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3285829\/fighter-jets-attack-drones-chinas-biggest-air-show-about-open-zhuhai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" target=\"_self\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\" data-qa=\"Component-Text\">debuted in the country\u2019s Zhuhai air show<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in November.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-Component\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-high altitude UAV with 7,000km range and ability to release up to 100 units of small drones will take off on first mission by June-end BEIJING,China.May 19(SCMP) &#8211; China\u2019s \u201cdrone carrier\u201d Jiu Tian will take off for its first mission by the end of June, laying the groundwork for the Chinese air force to extend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[26,2425],"tags":[152,1959,7845,9591,9592],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/China.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14898,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14896\/revisions\/14898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}