{"id":190143,"date":"2010-01-02T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/02\/su-34-bombers-enter-ruaf-service\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:47:00","slug":"su-34-bombers-enter-ruaf-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/02\/su-34-bombers-enter-ruaf-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Su-34 Bombers Enter RuAF Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img96.imageshack.us\/img96\/4476\/russianairforcesu3401.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>It&#8217;s a dedicated bomber variant of the Flanker, with side-by-side seating and a toilet(!) for extended missions, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/sukhoi-hands-over-su-34-bombers-to-russian-air-force-23487\/\">the first two aircraft in an order of 32 have entered service with the Russian Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should be a significant improvement on the Su-24, even in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/upgraded-su-24m2-bombers-to-russian-air-force-23393\/\">M2 upgrade<\/a>, and should significantly improve the strike capabilities of the fierce, particularly in night\/adverse weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a dedicated bomber variant of the Flanker, with side-by-side seating and a toilet(!) for extended missions, and the first two aircraft in an order of 32 have entered service with the Russian Air Force. It should be a significant improvement on the Su-24, even in its M2 upgrade, and should significantly improve the strike &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190143"}],"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=190143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}