{"id":192954,"date":"2009-02-01T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/01\/more-defense-procurement-bs-the-boeing-wedgetail\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:49:00","slug":"more-defense-procurement-bs-the-boeing-wedgetail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/01\/more-defense-procurement-bs-the-boeing-wedgetail\/","title":{"rendered":"More Defense Procurement BS, the Boeing Wedgetail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After $3.5 billion (Aus) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,24982875-662,00.html\">it won&#8217;t meet specifications<\/a>, and it is going to be 4 years late.<\/p>\n<p>And the government of Australia&#8217;s response appears to be to say, &#8220;Thank you sir, can I have another,&#8221; they are revising the terms of their contract to match what Boeing isn&#8217;t delivering.<\/p>\n<p>There is already so much money down the drain that Boeing owns the Australian ministry of defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After $3.5 billion (Aus) it won&#8217;t meet specifications, and it is going to be 4 years late. And the government of Australia&#8217;s response appears to be to say, &#8220;Thank you sir, can I have another,&#8221; they are revising the terms of their contract to match what Boeing isn&#8217;t delivering. There is already so much money &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,970,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192954"}],"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=192954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}