{"id":189530,"date":"2010-03-15T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/15\/ummmmm-whiskey-tango-foxtrot\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:38:00","slug":"ummmmm-whiskey-tango-foxtrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/15\/ummmmm-whiskey-tango-foxtrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ummmmm&#8230;Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aed128b0f-74e2-4a36-be32-184ca2060ce4\">Denmark is withdrawing from the JSF program<\/a>, and will instead purchase F\/A-18 E\/Fs.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=1&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FPenge%2F2010%2F03%2F15%2F112521.htm&amp;sl=da&amp;tl=en\">Danish report translated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>When you compare the $50 million F\/A-18, with the let&#8217;s-be-serious-here $100 million + F-35, and the fact that with global warming and the potential opening of the Northwest Passage, the Danes will need to patrol around Greenland, it gives a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> engine has some real value.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, we could have a denial tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a report that Denmark is withdrawing from the JSF program, and will instead purchase F\/A-18 E\/Fs. Here is the Danish report translated. I&#8217;m not surprised. When you compare the $50 million F\/A-18, with the let&#8217;s-be-serious-here $100 million + F-35, and the fact that with global warming and the potential opening of the Northwest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1136,1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-breaking-news","category-defense-procurement","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189530"}],"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=189530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}