{"id":193349,"date":"2008-12-21T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/boeing-aircrafts-pre-christmas-sale\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T13:43:00","slug":"boeing-aircrafts-pre-christmas-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/boeing-aircrafts-pre-christmas-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Aircraft&#8217;s Pre-Christmas Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it certainly sounds like one of those pre-Christmas sales.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing is offering to <a href=\"http:\/\/informationdissemination.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/boeing-gives-offer-congress-cant-refuse.html\">sell F\/A-18 E\/Fs to the US Navy and Marines for less than $50 million each<\/a>, in order to help with the &#8220;fighter gap&#8221;, that the Navy is facing as its older aircraft face the end of life, and the F-35 is further delayed.<\/p>\n<p>This is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">with<\/span> the AESA radar, so it is a very good deal by today&#8217;s standards.<\/p>\n<p>I never in my life thought that I&#8217;d be saying &#8220;F\/A-18&#8221;, and &#8220;low cost&#8221; in the same breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it certainly sounds like one of those pre-Christmas sales. Boeing is offering to sell F\/A-18 E\/Fs to the US Navy and Marines for less than $50 million each, in order to help with the &#8220;fighter gap&#8221;, that the Navy is facing as its older aircraft face the end of life, and the F-35 is &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-193349","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\/193349"}],"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=193349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}