{"id":15051,"date":"2011-12-30T01:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T04:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2012-01-08T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T00:05:44","slug":"unmanned-helicopter-makes-first-airdrop-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/unmanned-helicopter-makes-first-airdrop-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned Helicopter Makes First Airdrop in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unmanned K-MAX helicopter, an experimental UAV deployed to Afghanistan, has reportedly made its <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/marine-cargo-uav-to-deploy-to-afghanistan\/\">first successful resupply mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A detachment of Marines from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 moved about 3,500 pounds of food and supplies to troops at Combat Outpost Payne using an unmanned K-MAX helicopter on Dec. 17&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The concept is intended to reduce risk to both ground and helicopter-based resupply missions.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Updated<\/strong><\/span><\/em>: Also the top story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/01\/07\/cargo-drone-makes-debut-in-afghanistan\/\">FoxNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unmanned K-MAX helicopter, an experimental UAV deployed to Afghanistan, has reportedly made its first successful resupply mission. A detachment of Marines from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 moved about 3,500 pounds of food and supplies to troops at Combat Outpost Payne using an unmanned K-MAX helicopter on Dec. 17&#8230; The concept is intended to reduce risk to both [&#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":[58,2318,149,2,36,53],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-k-max","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051","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=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}