{"id":198148,"date":"2007-12-07T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/07\/pentagon-support-for-useless-overprices-boondoggle-gains-strength\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:03:00","slug":"pentagon-support-for-useless-overprices-boondoggle-gains-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/07\/pentagon-support-for-useless-overprices-boondoggle-gains-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Support for Useless, Overprices Boondoggle Gains Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, after years of lobbying, it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/03\/AR2007120301827.html\">the Pentagon may support buying more F-22s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s expensive, it&#8217;s designed for use against the non-existent Warsaw Pact, it has no advantages in a counter-insurgency campaign, and it is highly limited (the JSF is a far better bomb truck).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, any new production will have to update computer hardware and software, because the original architecture is obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another indication that the USAF should be reintegrated into the Army.  This is a toy for the wild blue yonder set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, after years of lobbying, it looks like the Pentagon may support buying more F-22s. It&#8217;s expensive, it&#8217;s designed for use against the non-existent Warsaw Pact, it has no advantages in a counter-insurgency campaign, and it is highly limited (the JSF is a far better bomb truck). Additionally, any new production will have to update &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-198148","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\/198148"}],"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=198148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}