{"id":193123,"date":"2009-01-18T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/18\/rok-buys-light-attack-version-of-t-50\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T11:19:00","slug":"rok-buys-light-attack-version-of-t-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/18\/rok-buys-light-attack-version-of-t-50\/","title":{"rendered":"ROK Buys Light Attack Version of T-50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img413.imageshack.us\/img413\/3545\/t50goldeneagle4780011py8.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>Rather unfortunately for the South Korean Air Force, they will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-01-12&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/01\/12\/AW_01_12_2009_p27-109762.xml&amp;headline=South+Korea+Contracts+for+FA-50\">buying a crippled radar set<\/a>, because their development agreement with Lockheed-Martin gives them a veto on avionics fits, so as not to compete with the F-16.<\/p>\n<p>So the Fighter\/Attack variant, called the FA-50, will be used with a mechanically scanned radar, as opposed to the AESA radar that they desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather unfortunately for the South Korean Air Force, they will be buying a crippled radar set, because their development agreement with Lockheed-Martin gives them a veto on avionics fits, so as not to compete with the F-16. So the Fighter\/Attack variant, called the FA-50, will be used with a mechanically scanned radar, as opposed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193123"}],"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=193123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}