{"id":7011,"date":"2010-09-02T00:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T06:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2010-08-30T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T05:07:51","slug":"f-16-destroyed-in-explosion-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/f-16-destroyed-in-explosion-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"F-16 Destroyed in Explosion.  On Purpose."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Air Force press release, an F-16 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123219224\">intentionally blown up<\/a> as part of an ongoing program to convert the F-16s to QF-16 target\/drones.\u00a0 The explosion was apparently a part of the test of the &#8220;flight termination system,&#8221; or the kill switch that allows a controller to destroy a wayward unmanned vehicle.\u00a0 (Perhaps one <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/uav-gets-lost-flies-to-dc\/\">flying into DC&#8217;s airspace<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/100820-F-7814K-116sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first QF-16 is scheduled to be delivered in 2014. The QF-16 will replace the QF-4, the third generation full-scale aerial target drone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an Air Force press release, an F-16 was intentionally blown up as part of an ongoing program to convert the F-16s to QF-16 target\/drones.\u00a0 The explosion was apparently a part of the test of the &#8220;flight termination system,&#8221; or the kill switch that allows a controller to destroy a wayward unmanned vehicle.\u00a0 (Perhaps one flying into DC&#8217;s airspace?) [&#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":[13,282,2,281,940,939],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-drone","tag-military","tag-qf-16","tag-qf-4","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","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=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}