{"id":3924,"date":"2010-02-25T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T08:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2010-02-21T21:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:54:47","slug":"air-force-shelving-fighters-increasing-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/air-force-shelving-fighters-increasing-uavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Shelving Fighters, Increasing UAVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in a variety of sources, the Air Force is instituting the previously declared drawdown in frontline fighters.\u00a0 It is &#8220;retiring&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/02\/airforce_retirement_021410w\/\">250 fighters across several platforms<\/a>, including nearly 100 F-16s.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, it was already common knowledge that the Air Force&#8217;s most recent budget had emphasized UAVs over manned fighters.\u00a0 The <em>Air Force Times<\/em> concludes that &#8220;by the end of the year&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/02\/airforce_afa_donley_021910w\/\">USAF UAV pilots will outnumber F-16 pilots<\/a>.\u00a0 Presumably, these UAV operators will primarily\u00a0control Reapers, Predators, and Global Hawks.\u00a0 F-16s were previously the largest manned major fighter weapon system in the Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in a variety of sources, the Air Force is instituting the previously declared drawdown in frontline fighters.\u00a0 It is &#8220;retiring&#8221; 250 fighters across several platforms, including nearly 100 F-16s. By contrast, it was already common knowledge that the Air Force&#8217;s most recent budget had emphasized UAVs over manned fighters.\u00a0 The Air Force Times concludes that &#8220;by the end [&#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":[13,186,2,53],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-f-16","tag-military","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}