{"id":192956,"date":"2009-02-01T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/01\/talk-about-gold-plated-weapons-systems\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:36:00","slug":"talk-about-gold-plated-weapons-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/01\/talk-about-gold-plated-weapons-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Gold Plated Weapons Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air force is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/01\/28\/usaf_directed_energy_weapon_materials_push\/\">looking to buy 2\u00bd inch diamonds as gunports<\/a> for a high power microwave weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, they will be synthetic diamond, and diamond already is used for high performance heat sinks, but 2\u00bd inch diamonds?  It sounds like something out of James Bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air force is looking to buy 2\u00bd inch diamonds as gunports for a high power microwave weapon. Obviously, they will be synthetic diamond, and diamond already is used for high performance heat sinks, but 2\u00bd inch diamonds? It sounds like something out of James Bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192956"}],"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=192956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}