{"id":21434,"date":"2013-02-20T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21434"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:50:04","slug":"air-force-continues-trainer-jet-replacement-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/air-force-continues-trainer-jet-replacement-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Continues Trainer Jet Replacement Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is continuing steps necessary to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2013\/01\/air-force-new-trainer-jet-t-x-012813w\/\">replace the venerable T-38<\/a>, a 50-year-old jet trainer originally conceived as a lead-in to the century-series fighters (F-100, F-102, etc.).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The winner of the T-X competition will replace Northrop Grumman\u2019s T-38 Talon, in use since 1959. \u201cThe T-38 needs a replacement system by sometime in the 2020s,\u201d a deadline that means the replacement program needs to be up and running \u201cby the end of this decade\u201d at the latest, Aboulafia said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the US Congress hasn&#8217;t passed a budget in years, new programs are still not funded.\u00a0 The &#8220;program&#8221; is essentially administrative research until the venture is appropriated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is continuing steps necessary to replace the venerable T-38, a 50-year-old jet trainer originally conceived as a lead-in to the century-series fighters (F-100, F-102, etc.). The winner of the T-X competition will replace Northrop Grumman\u2019s T-38 Talon, in use since 1959. \u201cThe T-38 needs a replacement system by sometime in the 2020s,\u201d a deadline that means 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":[5285,2,757,3864],"class_list":["post-21434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-t-38","tag-t-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434","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=21434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}