{"id":197266,"date":"2008-02-19T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/navy-looking-at-c-2-replacements-not-gonna-happen\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:32:00","slug":"navy-looking-at-c-2-replacements-not-gonna-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/navy-looking-at-c-2-replacements-not-gonna-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Looking at C-2 Replacements&#8230;Not Gonna Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-02-18&amp;section=Industry+Outlook&amp;headline=Aerospace+intelligence\">This report<\/a> (paid subscription required) says that the Navy wants to start replacing the C-2 in 2017, with a complete replacement by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>They are planning to let out the contract in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going to happen.  Big defense cuts are on the way, and the 6 year time frame for designing what has to be a from scratch replacement (carrier landings, folding wings) given the ponderous nature of defense procurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report (paid subscription required) says that the Navy wants to start replacing the C-2 in 2017, with a complete replacement by 2026. They are planning to let out the contract in 2011. It&#8217;s not going to happen. Big defense cuts are on the way, and the 6 year time frame for designing what has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197266"}],"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=197266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}