{"id":10923,"date":"2011-04-26T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2011-04-24T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T04:15:19","slug":"us-armys-gray-eagle-gets-hellfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/us-armys-gray-eagle-gets-hellfire\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army&#8217;s Gray Eagle Gets Hellfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army proudly announced its MQ-1C <em>Gray Eagle <\/em>had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/68567\/armed-and-dangerous-gray-eagle-goes-lethal\">successfully employed a Hellfire missile<\/a> in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Army&#8217;s <em>Gray Eagle <\/em>is essentially the same aircraft as the Air Force&#8217;s <em>Predator<\/em>, which has been armed for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes some of the differences between Air Force and Army operations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force\u2019s Predator drones are flown by officers who are usually located back in the USA and connected to the airframes by satellite link. But flying the Army\u2019s Gray Eagle is an enlisted soldier\u2019s affair, done in theater and close to the ground troops that the airframe serves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army proudly announced its MQ-1C Gray Eagle had successfully employed a Hellfire missile in Iraq. Of course, the Army&#8217;s Gray Eagle is essentially the same aircraft as the Air Force&#8217;s Predator, which has been armed for some time. The article notes some of the differences between Air Force and Army operations: The Air Force\u2019s Predator drones are flown [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,13,88,5285,1226,500,52,2,352,53],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-army","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-gray-eagle","tag-hellfire","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-predator","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}