{"id":965,"date":"2025-09-04T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:31:12","slug":"saudi-military-slams-chinese-laser-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/saudi-military-slams-chinese-laser-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi military slams Chinese laser weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1030\" height=\"514\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Screenshot from X\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SilentHunterlaser.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has become one of the first countries in the world to acquire laser-based air defense systems, purchasing China\u2019s SkyShield integrated counter-drone system to protect key sites and expensive air defense assets such as the Patriot from drone attacks. But operational experience in the kingdom\u2019s harsh environment has revealed serious limitations. The SkyShield system [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/saudi-military-slams-chinese-laser-weapon\/\">Saudi military slams Chinese laser weapon<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\">Defence Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has become one of the first countries in the world to acquire laser-based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}