{"id":456,"date":"2009-09-03T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:17:40","slug":"time-new-fighter-for-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/time-new-fighter-for-the-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Time: New Fighter for the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As previously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/09\/new-fighter-in-air-forces-future\/\">noted here<\/a>, <em>Time<\/em> has picked up on the apparent plans of the Navy and Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1918849,00.html\">to acquire slower, prop-driven aircraft <\/a>to aid in the counterinsurgency fight.\u00a0 Again, as already pointed out here, <em>Time<\/em> points out the similarity between the Air Force plans and the venerable Skyraider from Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Purists will readily admit that despite the coolness of the term, such an aircraft wouldn&#8217;t technically be a &#8220;fighter.&#8221;\u00a0 It would be an <em>attack<\/em> aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously noted here, Time has picked up on the apparent plans of the Navy and Air Force to acquire slower, prop-driven aircraft to aid in the counterinsurgency fight.\u00a0 Again, as already pointed out here, Time points out the similarity between the Air Force plans and the venerable Skyraider from Vietnam. Purists will readily admit that despite the coolness of [&#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":[13,34,2],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-insurgency","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}