{"id":26087,"date":"2013-10-21T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=26087"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:34:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:34:24","slug":"need-an-airstrike-theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/need-an-airstrike-theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Need an Airstrike?  There&#8217;s an App for that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20131016\/NEWS04\/310160005\">highlights a smartphone app<\/a> that could conceivably be used by troops to direct airstrikes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Draper Laboratory of Cambridge, Mass., is working with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., on a new program called the Android Terminal Assault Kit, or ATAK, that it said will transform the way troops request air support.<\/p>\n<p>The application will allow troops in the field to open a map and, with a few screen taps, label the locations of enemy troops, civilians, friendly forces and potential evacuation points, and then securely transmit the data to inbound pilots or operations centers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, they&#8217;re not developing the app for the iPhone, because &#8220;the security was better&#8221; on the Android OS.<\/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 Times highlights a smartphone app that could conceivably be used by troops to direct airstrikes: Draper Laboratory of Cambridge, Mass., is working with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., on a new program called the Android Terminal Assault Kit, or ATAK, that it said will transform the way troops request air support. The application will [&#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":[4343,134,4344,4342,5285,2],"class_list":["post-26087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afrl","tag-air-force","tag-android-terminal-assault-kit","tag-draper-laboratory","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26087","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=26087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}