{"id":694708,"date":"2026-04-08T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=694708"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:26:48","slug":"china-produces-baby-shahed-kamikaze-drones-for-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=694708","title":{"rendered":"China Produces &#8220;Baby Shahed&#8221; Kamikaze Drones For $500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8221; &#8230;<strong>launched by hand<\/strong>\u00a0or simple launch racks.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>According to the post, the so-called Baby Shahed costs around 3,000 yuan (about $450), has a range of 20 to 30 kilometers, flies at roughly 200 kilometers per hour, and can be launched by hand or from a rack. These drones could even be launched from a box truck or shipping containers.<\/h4>\n<p>These suicide drones have become critical in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and the US-Iran conflict because their low cost and maneuverability via swarming enable them to inflict severe damage on high-value assets, exposing a massive security gap.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The key lesson is that countries seeking deterrence will likely move to stockpile these drones in the millions.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/china-produces-baby-shahed-kamikaze-drones-500\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/china-produces-baby-shahed-kamikaze-drones-500<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; &#8230;launched by hand\u00a0or simple launch racks.&#8221;\u00a0 According to the post, the so-called Baby Shahed costs around 3,000 yuan (about $450), has a range of 20 to 30 kilometers, flies at roughly 200 kilometers per hour, and can be launched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=694708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694709,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694708\/revisions\/694709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}