{"id":41092,"date":"2017-06-19T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=41092"},"modified":"2017-06-19T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:37:58","slug":"us-navy-shoots-down-syrian-aircraft-in-first-since-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/us-navy-shoots-down-syrian-aircraft-in-first-since-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Shoots Down Syrian Aircraft in First Since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=101101\">reported<\/a> that an\u00a0F\/A-18E <em>Super Hornet<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/pentagon-us-shoots-down-syrian-aircraft-for-first-time-1.474225\">shot down<\/a> a Syrian Su-22 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The US military hasn&#8217;t shot down a (manned) aircraft since 1999, when <!--more-->Air Force F-15s downed MiG-29s during Operation Allied Force.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a new era will dawn for the fighter pilot.<\/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 US Navy reported that an\u00a0F\/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Su-22 yesterday. The US military hasn&#8217;t shot down a (manned) aircraft since 1999, when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,841,5285,2,36,304],"class_list":["post-41092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-fa-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-super-hornet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41092","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=41092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}