{"id":15898,"date":"2012-02-07T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15898"},"modified":"2012-02-06T23:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:00:57","slug":"battle-brewing-over-air-force-light-attack-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/battle-brewing-over-air-force-light-attack-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Brewing over Air Force Light Attack Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/usaf-to-provide-light-attack-aircraft-to-afghanistan\/\">seemed to say<\/a> the US government had made its decision regarding the light attack aircraft it would provide Afghanistan.\u00a0 A more recent article, however, indicates a <a href=\"http:\/\/defense.aol.com\/2012\/02\/03\/air-war-over-air-force-contract-escalates\/\">&#8220;battle&#8221; may yet be brewing<\/a> over the procurement plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The feud between Hawker Beechcraft and Sierra Nevada Corporation over the Light Air Support contract has escalated from <!--more-->the usual appeals to the GAO up to a lawsuit, a freeze on the program, an online battle between the competitors websites, a write-your-Congressman campaign&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hawker, which proposed a variant of its T-6 <em>Texan II<\/em>,\u00a0is currently suing over its exclusion from the bidding process.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; are adding passion to the debate, as well as the fact the winner of the competition (which ultimately had only one contestant) is the A-29 <em>Super Tucano<\/em>, made by\u00a0Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, reports seemed to say the US government had made its decision regarding the light attack aircraft it would provide Afghanistan.\u00a0 A more recent article, however, indicates a &#8220;battle&#8221; may yet be brewing over the procurement plan. The feud between Hawker Beechcraft and Sierra Nevada Corporation over the Light Air Support contract has escalated from<\/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":[2764,58,134,498,2768,5285,2766,2,36,2767,2765],"class_list":["post-15898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-29","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-at-6","tag-embraer","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hawker-beechcraft","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-sierra-nevada-corp","tag-super-tucano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898","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=15898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}