{"id":195250,"date":"2008-07-20T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/raptor-ducking-this-years-red-flag\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T23:38:00","slug":"raptor-ducking-this-years-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/raptor-ducking-this-years-red-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptor Ducking this Year&#8217;s Red Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the fact that it has been at previous Red Flags, and it has zero role in the so called &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;, and they could shake one loose for the Farnborough airshow but this year, when the Indian AF will be sending Su-30MKIs to the exercise,  David Axe reports that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/07\/httpwwwusafeafm.html\">too busy to participate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>They are doing their hair, or some such.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certain that they guys who actually <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fly<\/span> the F-22 want to see how their likely adversary, advanced derivatives of the Su-27 will perform against them, what sort of tactics would be used, and similar issues, but the guys who <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fly<\/span> desks, and are still interested in additional purchases of the white elephant, so they don&#8217;t want any losses in exercises, to get in the way of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the fact that it has been at previous Red Flags, and it has zero role in the so called &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;, and they could shake one loose for the Farnborough airshow but this year, when the Indian AF will be sending Su-30MKIs to the exercise, David Axe reports that they are too busy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1008,968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250"}],"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=195250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}