{"id":13803,"date":"2016-03-16T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T00:12:31","slug":"the-us-air-force-is-using-syria-to-test-antique-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-us-air-force-is-using-syria-to-test-antique-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Air Force Is Using Syria To Test Antique Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/031616_0002_TheUSAirFor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Axe wrote about the use of Syria as a testing ground:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Syrian conflict is a relatively low risk one for US fighters, with the enemy being targeted lacking serious anti-air capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The Air Force is thus using the battle to test out aircraft it might consider for future operations.<\/li>\n<li>Interestingly they&#8217;re not testing the most cutting edge in technology. Instead they&#8217;re looking at the performance of propeller aircraft from the Vietnam war.<\/li>\n<li>Such aircraft are substantially cheaper than jet fighters, costing just $1,000 per flight hour, versus $40,000 per hour for an F-15.<\/li>\n<li>They require less maintenance and can take off from rough airfields, which future battlefields may be full of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/america%e2%80%99s-antique-planes-battling-isis\/ar-AAgyK0O\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/america%e2%80%99s-antique-planes-battling-isis\/ar-AAgyK0O\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Axe wrote about the use of Syria as a testing ground: The Syrian conflict is a relatively low risk one for US fighters, with the enemy being targeted lacking serious anti-air capabilities. The Air Force is thus using the battle to test out aircraft it might consider for future operations. Interestingly they&#8217;re not testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/031616_0002_TheUSAirFor1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13803\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}