{"id":8368,"date":"2010-12-09T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2010-12-06T03:14:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:14:49","slug":"jsf-faces-logistical-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/jsf-faces-logistical-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"JSF Faces Logistical Hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As any aircraft design enthusiast knows, when someone creates a new aircraft design they do far more than consider the range, speed, or weapons capability.\u00a0 Far more prosaic issues are also important:\u00a0 How hard is it for the crew chief to change a tire?\u00a0 How quickly can it be gassed and reloaded?<\/p>\n<p>How hard is it to get spare parts?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the JSF engine, when enclosed in its <!--more-->transport container, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/11\/navy-jsf-engine-too-big-112910w\/\">too big to be transported to aircraft carriers by normal replenishment means<\/a>.\u00a0 This may be easily fixed by simply redesigning a transport container; alternatively, it could be a very difficult, and very expensive, problem to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>No one ever said fielding the world&#8217;s newest fighter aircraft was easy, did they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any aircraft design enthusiast knows, when someone creates a new aircraft design they do far more than consider the range, speed, or weapons capability.\u00a0 Far more prosaic issues are also important:\u00a0 How hard is it for the crew chief to change a tire?\u00a0 How quickly can it be gassed and reloaded? How hard is it to get spare parts? [&#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":[13,118,5285,294,2,36],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-f-35","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-jsf","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","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=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}