{"id":194012,"date":"2008-11-01T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/south-african-rooivalk-attack-helo-still-in-limbo\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:08:00","slug":"south-african-rooivalk-attack-helo-still-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/south-african-rooivalk-attack-helo-still-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Rooivalk Attack Helo Still in Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that this was a promising project, particularly in an COINS application, as the SADF had that as its primary duty before the end of Apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that I was wrong and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-10-27&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/10\/27\/AW_10_27_2008_p60-89597.xml&amp;headline=Denel+and+Government+Discuss+Rooivalk+Issues&amp;rssid=123456789\">Rooivalk program is a mess<\/a> (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Only 12 production helos were delivered, there are no prospects for foreign sales, and they have dissimilar avionics fits across the fleet, and they are now talking about, &#8220;revised functionality within the existing allocated financial resources,&#8221; which means downgraded capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img148.imageshack.us\/img148\/8259\/aw102720081613ldw2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought that this was a promising project, particularly in an COINS application, as the SADF had that as its primary duty before the end of Apartheid. It appears that I was wrong and the Rooivalk program is a mess (paid subscription required). Only 12 production helos were delivered, there are no prospects for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1005,1008,1226,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-business","category-defense-procurement","category-helicopters","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194012"}],"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=194012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}