{"id":197191,"date":"2008-02-23T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/23\/1-2-billion-gone-in-seconds\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T00:58:00","slug":"1-2-billion-gone-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/23\/1-2-billion-gone-in-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.2 Billion Gone in Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A B-2 bomber <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080223\/ap_on_re_us\/b2_crash\">crashed on takeoff at Guam today<\/a>.  Both pilots have ejected safely, though one is still in hospital, listed as &#8220;stable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>$1.2 billion, and 1 of only 21 of the stealth bombers in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the Air Force&#8217;s fascination with silver bullets is so counter productive.  You could get 95% of the performance, and many times the numbers, for less than half the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A B-2 bomber crashed on takeoff at Guam today. Both pilots have ejected safely, though one is still in hospital, listed as &#8220;stable&#8221;. $1.2 billion, and 1 of only 21 of the stealth bombers in an instant. This is why the Air Force&#8217;s fascination with silver bullets is so counter productive. You could get 95% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197191"}],"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=197191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}