{"id":191064,"date":"2009-09-28T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/28\/usaf-adds-irst-to-f-15s\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T17:56:00","slug":"usaf-adds-irst-to-f-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/28\/usaf-adds-irst-to-f-15s\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF adds IRST to F-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/18\/332380\/usaf-adds-irst-pod-for-f-15s.html\">using a variant of the ANS-42 Ifra-Red Search and Track system<\/a> originally deployed on the F-14D (replacing the TCS used on earlier models) and subsequently installed on the front half of an F-18 drop tank (probably because the under-wing environment was too vibration prone).<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a sound move, though with the USAF shoving F-15s and F-16s out the door as quickly as possible so as not to compete with the F-35 JSF, I&#8217;m a bit dubious.<\/p>\n<p>My earlier posts on this are <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/fa-18ef-to-get-new-air-combat-sensor.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/worldwide-war-pigs-drop-tank-irst-tests.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They will be using a variant of the ANS-42 Ifra-Red Search and Track system originally deployed on the F-14D (replacing the TCS used on earlier models) and subsequently installed on the front half of an F-18 drop tank (probably because the under-wing environment was too vibration prone). It seems like a sound move, though with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191064"}],"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=191064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}