{"id":13670,"date":"2011-10-18T01:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13670"},"modified":"2011-10-17T23:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:12:34","slug":"new-light-attack-aircraft-wont-see-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/new-light-attack-aircraft-wont-see-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Light Attack Aircraft Won&#8217;t See Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/at-6c-drops-laser-guided-bombs-in-arizona\/\">non-acquisition of the armed T-6<\/a> may have been planned to take another step, with a potential combat deployment to Afghanistan.\u00a0 Apparently, the Congressional Armed Services Committees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/10\/defense-lawmakers-nix-light-attack-aircraft-proposal-101411\/\">rejected the funding requests<\/a> for the project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For more than a year, the Pentagon has wanted to test propeller-driven planes outfitted with reconnaissance sensors and precision-guided weapons in combat to see <!--more-->if they can improve coordination between ground troops and aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>But, lawmakers have not been receptive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dynamic of a budget-constrained government trying to win a war with the &#8220;best&#8221; equipment for the job is educational to watch.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the military looks to be considering OV-10s &#8212; from the 1960s &#8212; for the demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the non-acquisition of the armed T-6 may have been planned to take another step, with a potential combat deployment to Afghanistan.\u00a0 Apparently, the Congressional Armed Services Committees rejected the funding requests for the project: For more than a year, the Pentagon has wanted to test propeller-driven planes outfitted with reconnaissance sensors and precision-guided weapons in combat to [&#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":[58,498,5285,19,2,2326],"class_list":["post-13670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-at-6","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-government","tag-military","tag-ov-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670","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=13670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}