{"id":48653,"date":"2016-04-18T03:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=48653"},"modified":"2016-04-18T03:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:06:30","slug":"u-s-to-sail-submarine-drones-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=48653","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Sail Submarine Drones in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/e5dd3d5a-0314-11e6-af1d-c47326021344\">Financial Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>As it watches China build up its presence in the South China Sea, one reclaimed island at a time, the US military is betting on a new technology to help retain its edge \u2014 submarine drones.<\/p>\n<p>During the past six months, the Pentagon has started to talk publicly about a once-secret programme to develop unmanned undersea vehicles, the term given to the drone subs that are becoming part of its plan to deter China from trying to dominate the region.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton Carter, US defence secretary, made special mention of drone subs in a speech about military strategy in Asia and hinted at their potential use in the South China Sea, which has large areas of shallower water.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Financial Times: As it watches China build up its presence in the South China Sea, one reclaimed island at a time, the US military is betting on a new technology to help retain its edge \u2014 submarine drones. During the past six months, the Pentagon has started to talk publicly about a once-secret programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rise-of-the-machines","category-technology","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48654,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48653\/revisions\/48654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}