{"id":8540,"date":"2010-12-21T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T05:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2010-12-20T02:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:41:32","slug":"usaf-to-cease-purchasing-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/usaf-to-cease-purchasing-predators\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF to Cease Purchasing Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story at Wired.com notes the Air Force has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/12\/air-force-is-through-with-predator-drones\">completed its purchase of 268 MQ-1B <em>Predators<\/em><\/a> from General Atomics.\u00a0 The Predator made waves first as a reconnaissance platform and was subsequently retrofitted with a limited amount of weapons.\u00a0 The USAF continues to purchase the MQ-9 <em>Reaper <\/em>&#8212; with 57 so far in a planned purchase of 272 &#8212; a beefed-up version of the Predator designed to carry weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story at Wired.com notes the Air Force has completed its purchase of 268 MQ-1B Predators from General Atomics.\u00a0 The Predator made waves first as a reconnaissance platform and was subsequently retrofitted with a limited amount of weapons.\u00a0 The USAF continues to purchase the MQ-9 Reaper &#8212; with 57 so far in a planned purchase of 272 &#8212; a beefed-up [&#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":[134,13,2,352,95,53],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-military","tag-predator","tag-reaper","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","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=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}