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Proof: China deploys advanced WZ-7 drone for first time near Scarborough Shoal

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T11:12:23Z","headline":"China deploys advanced WZ-7 drone for first time near Scarborough Shoal","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"scmp","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3369080/china-deploys-advanced-wz-7-drone-first-time-near-scarborough-shoal?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage","v":1}

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SHA-256

5a3973ac3c8317db63b637ef04c1d89f0a646d6d000fea4284d2b2952438c462

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968986, mined 2026-09-28 11:33 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 11:19 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5a3973ac3c83.json prints 5a3973ac3c8317db63b637ef04c1d89f0a646d6d000fea4284d2b2952438c462. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5a3973ac3c83.json and headline-5a3973ac3c83.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-5a3973ac3c83.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.