{"id":193471,"date":"2008-12-13T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/israel-tests-black-hawk-gunship\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:51:00","slug":"israel-tests-black-hawk-gunship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/israel-tests-black-hawk-gunship\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Tests Black Hawk Gunship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img57.imageshack.us\/img57\/1646\/gunshipxm0.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/10\/319936\/picture-israel-tests-armed-black-hawk-demonstrator.html\">Israel is looking at an armed variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk demonstrator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the photo, it appears that they would be carrying an chain gun and a targeting turret, along with a fair number of ATGWs, something on the order of 16 Hellfire class missles, though, given that this is an Israeli developed project, Rafael&#8217;s Spike, or some variant thereof, would likely be the actual weapon deployed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a return to the old UH-1 gunships developed in Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Israel is looking at an armed variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk demonstrator. From the photo, it appears that they would be carrying an chain gun and a targeting turret, along with a fair number of ATGWs, something on the order of 16 Hellfire class missles, though, given that this is an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1226,1159,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-helicopters","category-israel","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193471"}],"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=193471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}