{"id":194170,"date":"2008-10-18T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/commuter-planes-of-death-join-iraqi-air-force\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T12:05:00","slug":"commuter-planes-of-death-join-iraqi-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/commuter-planes-of-death-join-iraqi-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter Planes of Death Join Iraqi Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;\" >Best<br \/>Headline<br \/>Ever<\/span><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The story is about how the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/10\/commuter-planes.html\">Iraqi air force is hanging Hellfire missiles on Cessna Caravan utility aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the larger counter-insurgency environment, this might actually be a superior product to something like an F-16, as it is lower and slower, and thus better able to see the target.<\/p>\n<p>The US should be deploying something like a militarized turboprop trainer to theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BestHeadlineEver. The story is about how the Iraqi air force is hanging Hellfire missiles on Cessna Caravan utility aircraft. In the larger counter-insurgency environment, this might actually be a superior product to something like an F-16, as it is lower and slower, and thus better able to see the target. The US should be deploying &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1063,1180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-iraq","category-missiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194170"}],"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=194170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}