{"id":184975,"date":"2011-11-19T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/19\/yeah-this-is-a-vote-of-confidence-in-the-jsf\/"},"modified":"2011-11-19T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T11:06:00","slug":"yeah-this-is-a-vote-of-confidence-in-the-jsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/19\/yeah-this-is-a-vote-of-confidence-in-the-jsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, This is a Vote of Confidence in the JSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines have decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=8225756\">buy Harriers from the UK to extend the life of their fleet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Britain has agreed to sell all of its 74 decommissioned Harrier jump jets, along with engines and spare parts, to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps &#8211; a move expected to help the Marines operate Harriers into the mid-2020s and provide extra planes to replace aging two-seat F-18D Hornet strike fighters. <\/p>\n<p>Rear Adm. Mark Heinrich, chief of the U.S. Navy&#8217;s Supply Corps, confirmed the two-part deal Nov. 10 during a conference in New York sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in association with Defense News.<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich negotiated the $50 million purchase of all Harrier spare parts, while Rear Adm. Donald Gaddis, the U.S. Navy&#8217;s program executive officer for tactical aircraft, is overseeing discussions to buy the Harrier aircraft and their Rolls-Royce engines, Heinrich said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US Marine Corps does not seem to be completely sanguine about Lockheed-Martin meeting schedule, even the new schedule which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/11\/fighters-fly-for-50-years\/\">slides IOC another 2 years to the right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines have decided to buy Harriers from the UK to extend the life of their fleet: Britain has agreed to sell all of its 74 decommissioned Harrier jump jets, along with engines and spare parts, to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps &#8211; a move expected to help the Marines operate Harriers into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}