{"id":193132,"date":"2009-01-17T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/17\/speaking-of-the-cluster-f-that-is-the-a400m-development-program\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T11:40:00","slug":"speaking-of-the-cluster-f-that-is-the-a400m-development-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/17\/speaking-of-the-cluster-f-that-is-the-a400m-development-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the Cluster F%$# that is the A400M Development Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/12\/320918\/a400m-service-entry-hit-by-further-two-year-delay.html\">EADS is asking for a further 2 year delay in service entry for the A400M military transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a report says that the A400m is <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3897605&amp;c=EUR&amp;s=AIR\">over weight and under-performing<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The FTD cited sources which said the current version of the A400M can carry only 29-30 tons of material, instead of an expected 32 tons, and that it is itself 12 tons overweight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to know that bloated under-performers in defense acquisition is not a special American monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like EADS is asking for a further 2 year delay in service entry for the A400M military transport. At the same time, a report says that the A400m is over weight and under-performing: The FTD cited sources which said the current version of the A400M can carry only 29-30 tons of material, instead &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-193132","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\/193132"}],"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=193132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}