{"id":13636,"date":"2011-10-13T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13636"},"modified":"2011-10-13T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T05:20:25","slug":"marine-cargo-uav-to-deploy-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/marine-cargo-uav-to-deploy-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Cargo UAV to Deploy to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines have decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=63107\">deploy an unmanned helicopter to Afghanistan<\/a> to conduct cargo delivery operations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adm. Bill Shannon, program executive officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, approved Lockheed Martin\/Kaman&#8217;s K-MAX unmanned helicopter for a six-month deployment to augment Marine Corps ground and air logistics operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unmanned helicopter has reportedly <!--more-->carried multiple loads to separate destinations in austere conditions.\u00a0 The deployment itself will be supported by both Marines and Lockheed contractors.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the chopper will take &#8220;one more truck off the road&#8221; and prevent the need for an aircrew to be exposed to harm, either from maintenance\/the environment or hostile action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines have decided to deploy an unmanned helicopter to Afghanistan to conduct cargo delivery operations: Adm. Bill Shannon, program executive officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, approved Lockheed Martin\/Kaman&#8217;s K-MAX unmanned helicopter for a six-month deployment to augment Marine Corps ground and air logistics operations. The unmanned helicopter has reportedly<\/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":[2319,2318,149,2,36,53],"class_list":["post-13636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-bill-shannon","tag-k-max","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636","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=13636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}