{"id":17603,"date":"2012-05-03T00:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17603"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T02:30:14","slug":"f-22s-target-t-38s-near-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/f-22s-target-t-38s-near-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"F-22s Target T-38s near DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper covers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/news\/military\/dp-nws-cp-f22-training-20120429,0,2074130.story\">new &#8220;professional adversaries&#8221;<\/a> for Langley Air Force based F-22 Raptors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Lt. Col. Derek] Wyler and several other pilots at Langley Air Force Base fly the T-38 Talon. First used in the 1960s as a trainer, the Talon has been given new life at Langley and two other Air Force bases. It plays the role of enemy aircraft in training exercises with the F-22 Raptor, now the top-line fighter in the fleet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there are some challenging characteristics of the T-38s which make them desirable adversaries, it probably comes down to money: it&#8217;s just cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper covers the new &#8220;professional adversaries&#8221; for Langley Air Force based F-22 Raptors. [Lt. Col. Derek] Wyler and several other pilots at Langley Air Force Base fly the T-38 Talon. First used in the 1960s as a trainer, the Talon has been given new life at Langley and two other Air Force bases. It plays the role of [&#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":[3235,343,5285,2358,2,757],"class_list":["post-17603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-derek-wyler","tag-f-22","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-langley","tag-military","tag-t-38"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603","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=17603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}