{"id":191068,"date":"2009-09-27T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/27\/8-months-from-buy-to-fly\/"},"modified":"2009-09-27T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:52:00","slug":"8-months-from-buy-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/27\/8-months-from-buy-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Months from Buy to Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img59.imageshack.us\/img59\/7231\/mc12wslide9372341.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img59.imageshack.us\/img59\/7231\/mc12wslide9372341.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>One of the things that is truly depressing about defense procurement is that we see evidence that it does not have to be that bad, case in point, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/005034.html\">MC-12W Liberty<\/a>, a derivative of the mid size turboprop civil transport Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is purchases for $7 million, and the mods and equipment cost another $10 million for modifications, for video , sigint, and other surveillance and communications gear, which should prove particularly useful in places like Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The need is real, the requirements were not inflated, and the system is entering service in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>But this should be the rule, and not the exception, as it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that is truly depressing about defense procurement is that we see evidence that it does not have to be that bad, case in point, the MC-12W Liberty, a derivative of the mid size turboprop civil transport Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350. The aircraft is purchases for $7 million, and the mods &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191068"}],"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=191068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}