{"id":188630,"date":"2010-08-21T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/21\/bae-close-to-launch-contract-for-apkws-rocket\/"},"modified":"2010-08-21T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T10:26:00","slug":"bae-close-to-launch-contract-for-apkws-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/21\/bae-close-to-launch-contract-for-apkws-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"BAE close to launch contract for APKWS rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img31\/2829\/getasset.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"390\" \/>BAE is looking to get its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/29\/345518\/bae-close-to-launch-contract-for-apkws-rocket.html\">1<sup>st<\/sup> contract to deliver APKWS guided 2.75 inch rocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The advantage to a system like this is that something like a Hellfire is sometimes too big, and always too expensive for smaller jobs, like taking out a room, a car, or a mortar fire team, and a helicopter can carry a lot more of these than it can Hellfires.<\/p>\n<p>Rather unsurprisingly, it&#8217;s the Marines who are looking to take a buy.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;m waiting for them to cancel this, and move the money to the JSF or Osprey, which would both penny <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> pound foolish.<\/p>\n<p>Prior posts on the various programs to <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=2.75+in\">add guidance to 2.75 inch rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAE is looking to get its 1st contract to deliver APKWS guided 2.75 inch rocket. The advantage to a system like this is that something like a Hellfire is sometimes too big, and always too expensive for smaller jobs, like taking out a room, a car, or a mortar fire team, and a helicopter can &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188630"}],"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=188630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}