{"id":197749,"date":"2008-01-14T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/new-build-tu-160-blackjack-strategic-bomber-begins-flight-test\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:55:00","slug":"new-build-tu-160-blackjack-strategic-bomber-begins-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/new-build-tu-160-blackjack-strategic-bomber-begins-flight-test\/","title":{"rendered":"New Build Tu-160 Blackjack Strategic Bomber Begins Flight Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/airforce\/New_serial_Tu-160_Blackjack_bomber_undergoes_flight_test100014778.php\">another indication of how Russia is rearming<\/a>, and I think that it is driven by a fear of NATO in general, and the US in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this suits the Republicans just fine, because they want a scary opponent who justifies high tech white elephants like the F-22.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, &#8220;New Build&#8221; appears to be kind of a technicality.  It appears that the aircraft was manufactured from a partially completed airframe dated from the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this is another indication of how Russia is rearming, and I think that it is driven by a fear of NATO in general, and the US in particular. Of course, this suits the Republicans just fine, because they want a scary opponent who justifies high tech white elephants like the F-22. FWIW, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,1007,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-control","category-aviation","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197749"}],"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=197749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}