{"id":25588,"date":"2013-09-25T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25588"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:44:24","slug":"cessna-floats-new-plane-for-irregular-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/cessna-floats-new-plane-for-irregular-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Cessna Floats New Plane for Irregular Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/17\/tech\/innovation\/new-scorpion-attack-jet\/\">press release<\/a> notes Textron Airland, a joint venture between Cessna and an industry group, has self-produced an aircraft it intends to market as a low-cost irregular warfare aircraft.\u00a0 The &#8220;Scorpion&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>is well matched to the Air National Guard&#8217;s missions such as irregular warfare, border patrol, maritime surveillance, emergency relief, counter narcotics and air defense operations,&#8221; the joint venture&#8217;s website says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Scorpion will be able to carry 3,000 pounds of weapons at speeds up to 517 mph, according to the company&#8217;s website. The plane&#8217;s ceiling is 45,000 feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Airland is a group made up of &#8220;formed by former defense and aerospace executives,&#8221; including former Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters. One of the Scorpion&#8217;s primary selling points is that it has been developed without government funds to date, making it an &#8220;off the shelf&#8221; and economical purchase.<\/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>A press release notes Textron Airland, a joint venture between Cessna and an industry group, has self-produced an aircraft it intends to market as a low-cost irregular warfare aircraft.\u00a0 The &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; is well matched to the Air National Guard&#8217;s missions such as irregular warfare, border patrol, maritime surveillance, emergency relief, counter narcotics and air defense operations,&#8221; the joint venture&#8217;s website [&#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":[134,13,3005,4297,2,4295,4296],"class_list":["post-25588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-cessna","tag-f-whitten-peters","tag-military","tag-scorpion","tag-textron-airland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588","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=25588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}