{"id":192535,"date":"2009-03-21T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/21\/the-navy-is-doing-this-because-the-usaf-cant-be-bothered\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:26:00","slug":"the-navy-is-doing-this-because-the-usaf-cant-be-bothered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/21\/the-navy-is-doing-this-because-the-usaf-cant-be-bothered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy is Doing This Because the USAF Can&#8217;t Be Bothered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img5.imageshack.us\/img5\/8774\/031309dntucano315982037.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>After years of ground troops begging for something lower, slower, and with more short field capability, it is the US Navy that is considering a solution, the <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3989450&amp;c=AME&amp;s=AIR\">Super Tucano turboprop trainer<\/a> configured for the light attack mission.<\/p>\n<p>You could probably buy 50 of these aircraft for the price of one JSF, and it can loiter over the battle area for a much longer period of time, and spot things that the fast movers would miss.<\/p>\n<p>Shades of the A-1 Skyraider, which wasn&#8217;t a USAF idea either.<\/p>\n<p>Naval aviation is fighting it, because, well, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">has a propeller and all<\/span>, but it looks like this will actually be used, because it&#8217;s what the guy on the ground needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of ground troops begging for something lower, slower, and with more short field capability, it is the US Navy that is considering a solution, the Super Tucano turboprop trainer configured for the light attack mission. You could probably buy 50 of these aircraft for the price of one JSF, and it can loiter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192535"}],"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=192535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}