{"id":162492,"date":"2024-12-30T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spotted-china-new-wz-9-divine-eagle-aew-drone-test-flight\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T00:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T14:23:18","slug":"spotted-chinas-new-wz-9-divine-eagle-aew-drone-makes-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=162492","title":{"rendered":"Spotted: China&#8217;s New WZ-9 &#8220;Divine Eagle&#8221; AEW Drone Makes Test Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has emerged online reportedly showing a new (and unorthodox) Chinese military drone flying. The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15058\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\"  >drone<\/a><\/span> is said to be the Wuzhen-9 (or WZ-9), meaning &#8220;Divine Eagle&#8221;, and is suggested to be an Airborne Early Warning aircraft. The new drone comes amid a flurry of new end-of-year Chinese military aircraft reveals that include two advanced fighter jets. One of those jets could be         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038084\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spotted-china-6th-gen-fighter-maiden-flight\/\" >the first sixth-generation fighter flown by China<\/a><\/span> and the second is a smaller fighter (it&#8217;s unclear if the smaller fighter is manned or unmanned). The WZ-9 drone was previously known from scale models and satellite images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has publically flown the strange-looking WZ-9 advanced drone seemingly for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,118,8575,4160,628,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-china","category-chinese-air-force","category-drones","category-fighter-jets","category-guides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162493,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162492\/revisions\/162493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}