{"id":14829,"date":"2011-12-28T01:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2011-12-28T01:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T04:51:35","slug":"air-force-deploys-newest-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/air-force-deploys-newest-predator\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Deploys Newest Predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purists have for years mocked the Hollywood portrayal of military UAVs.\u00a0 The 2007 <em>Transformers<\/em>,\u00a0for example, featured an afterburning Predator.<\/p>\n<p>The Predator has a propeller, so that&#8217;s like having an afterburning Cessna 172.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, reality has started to catch up with fiction.\u00a0 The Air Force has reportedly purchased &#8212; and deployed, its single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/defense-air-force-orders-single-predator-c-avenger-121311\/\">Predator C<\/a>, which has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/12\/14\/air-forces-urgent-request-for-new-stealth-drone\/\">jet engine in place of the propeller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It does not appear to be an <em>afterburning <\/em>engine, but there&#8217;s still time yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purists have for years mocked the Hollywood portrayal of military UAVs.\u00a0 The 2007 Transformers,\u00a0for example, featured an afterburning Predator. The Predator has a propeller, so that&#8217;s like having an afterburning Cessna 172. Now, however, reality has started to catch up with fiction.\u00a0 The Air Force has reportedly purchased &#8212; and deployed, its single Predator C, which has a jet engine [&#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":[2645,5285,2,352,2644,53],"class_list":["post-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afterburner","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-predator","tag-predator-c","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829","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=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}