{"id":197443,"date":"2008-02-04T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/04\/delays-in-30000-lb-massive-ordinance-penetrator\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T02:31:00","slug":"delays-in-30000-lb-massive-ordinance-penetrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/04\/delays-in-30000-lb-massive-ordinance-penetrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays in 30,000 lb Massive Ordinance Penetrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there are significant delays with the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/04\/221229\/boeing-b-52-bomb-rack-delays-drop-test-for-14t-bunker-buster.html\">bomb rack for the Massive Ordinance Penetrator<\/a> (MOP).<\/p>\n<p>Cost has increased 33%, and the delay is expected to be at least 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the controversy over the weapon, Congress blocked funding to integrate it into the B-2, because of concerns that the Bush administration would use it on a surprise sneak attack against Iran, one wonders if the military might be dragging its heels until the crazies have left the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there are significant delays with thebomb rack for the Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP). Cost has increased 33%, and the delay is expected to be at least 10 months. Considering the controversy over the weapon, Congress blocked funding to integrate it into the B-2, because of concerns that the Bush administration would use &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1034,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-iran","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197443"}],"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=197443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}