{"id":29917,"date":"2014-09-17T00:15:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T03:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:13:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:13:38","slug":"first-qf-16-downed-as-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/first-qf-16-downed-as-target\/","title":{"rendered":"First QF-16 Downed as Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After it just recently served as a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/qf-16-flies-as-target-for-first-time\/\">surface-to-air target<\/a> for the first time, the Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123424333\">announced<\/a> the first successful downing of the pilotless QF-16 drone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first unmanned QF-16 Viper struck down over the Gulf of Mexico Sept. 5 was part of a joint effort between the Test and Training Division at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and the 82nd Aerial Target Squadron here at Tyndall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The QF-16 is slated to eventually replace the current QF-4 full-scale drones.<!--more--><\/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>After it just recently served as a surface-to-air target for the first time, the Air Force announced the first successful downing of the pilotless QF-16 drone: The first unmanned QF-16 Viper struck down over the Gulf of Mexico Sept. 5 was part of a joint effort between the Test and Training Division at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and 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":[134,674,5285,2,281,940,4886,53],"class_list":["post-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-eglin-afb","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-qf-16","tag-qf-4","tag-tyndall-afb","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917","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=29917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}