{"id":2592,"date":"2009-12-10T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2009-12-09T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T06:48:20","slug":"us-air-force-flies-beast-of-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/us-air-force-flies-beast-of-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Flies &#8220;Beast of Kandahar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com and\u00a0FoxNews are\u00a0two of several sites repeating articles that say the US Air Force has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2009\/12\/09\/usair-force-confirms-secret-stealth-drone-plane\/\">acknowledged a new UAV<\/a> &#8220;shrouded in secrecy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/af-confirms-beast-of-kandahar.html\">Grainy photos<\/a> show what appears to be a flying-wing aircraft, which was\u00a0reportedly initially photographed flying over Afghanistan in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, it is worth remembering that the US military is in a <em>constant<\/em> effort to field the best systems and weaponry.\u00a0 Because such systems are often developed and employed in secrecy, sometimes that&#8217;s an easy thing to forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com and\u00a0FoxNews are\u00a0two of several sites repeating articles that say the US Air Force has acknowledged a new UAV &#8220;shrouded in secrecy.&#8221; Grainy photos show what appears to be a flying-wing aircraft, which was\u00a0reportedly initially photographed flying over Afghanistan in 2007. If nothing else, it is worth remembering that the US military is in a constant effort to field the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,13,2,53],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}