{"id":185741,"date":"2014-08-24T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/24\/south-africa-unveils-worlds-ugliest-warplane\/"},"modified":"2014-08-24T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T02:45:00","slug":"south-africa-unveils-worlds-ugliest-warplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/24\/south-africa-unveils-worlds-ugliest-warplane\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Unveils World&#8217;s Ugliest Warplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TN5lFKV.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/TN5lFKV.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>South Africa\u2019s Paramount Group has announced that its Advanced High-performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft(AHRLAC) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/blogs\/the-dewline\/2014\/08\/ahrlac-gets-airborne\/\">entered flight test<\/a>.  It appears to occupy the niche for austere military and police reconnaissance.  It is also really fugly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">South Africa\u2019s Paramount Group announced on 13 August that its AHRLAC [advanced high-performance reconnaissance light aircraft] has entered flight testing; just shy of three years after launching the indigenous project.  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cUnique-looking\u201d is probably the nicest way to describe the prototype\u2019s look, although we certainly do like the chosen camouflage scheme (squint a bit and it\u2019s almost a mini OV-10 Bronco with Slovakia\u2019s funky MiG-29 markings; or is that just me?).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has gone from project launch to first flight fairly quickly, about 3 years, and there are reconnaissance and light strike versions, but it has a face only a mother could love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Paramount Group has announced that its Advanced High-performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft(AHRLAC) has entered flight test. It appears to occupy the niche for austere military and police reconnaissance. It is also really fugly: South Africa\u2019s Paramount Group announced on 13 August that its AHRLAC [advanced high-performance reconnaissance light aircraft] has entered flight testing; just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1007,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aviation","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185741"}],"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=185741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}