{"id":20260,"date":"2012-11-27T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20260"},"modified":"2012-11-27T01:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:56:33","slug":"qf-16-drone-arrives-at-tyndall-afb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/qf-16-drone-arrives-at-tyndall-afb\/","title":{"rendered":"QF-16 Drone Arrives at Tyndall AFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first QF-16 &#8212; an F-16 modified to be used as a target drone &#8212; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123327445\">arrived at Tyndall AFB<\/a> for testing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The QF-16 is a supersonic reusable full-scale aerial target drone modified from an F-16 Fighting Falcon. At this time, the 53rd WEG uses QF-4s, made from 1960s F-4 Phantoms, to conduct their full-scale aerial target missions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the drone is put into production within a reasonable time, the QF-16 will mark the first time an active US Air Force combat airframe will be able to shoot down itself in training.\u00a0 Prior target drones &#8212; including the current QF-4s &#8212; were put into use after their active counterparts were retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first QF-16 &#8212; an F-16 modified to be used as a target drone &#8212; has arrived at Tyndall AFB for testing. The QF-16 is a supersonic reusable full-scale aerial target drone modified from an F-16 Fighting Falcon. At this time, the 53rd WEG uses QF-4s, made from 1960s F-4 Phantoms, to conduct their full-scale aerial target missions. If the [&#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":[134,13,282,2,281,939,516],"class_list":["post-20260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-drone","tag-military","tag-qf-16","tag-target","tag-tyndall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260","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=20260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}