{"id":649,"date":"2011-10-11T05:44:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T09:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-10-11T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:06:21","slug":"navys-next-gen-attack-drone-goes-wheels-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/navys-next-gen-attack-drone-goes-wheels-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy&#8217;s next-gen attack drone goes wheels-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way anyone could possibly mistake Northrop Grumman&#8217;s X-47B for anything like a normal aircraft: during its first wheels-up test flight a few weeks ago, the unmanned jet fighter looked uncannily like a UFO.<\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of advantages to a robotic fighter jet: it can be smaller, lighter, faster, and more efficient, carrying more useful payload for longer ranges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/unmanned-stealt.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/x-47b_pic1-thumb-550xauto-73130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/unmanned-stealt.php\">Navy&#8217;s next-gen attack drone goes wheels-up | DVICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way anyone could possibly mistake Northrop Grumman&#8217;s X-47B for anything like a normal aircraft: during its first wheels-up test flight a few weeks ago, the unmanned jet fighter looked uncannily like a UFO. There are all kinds of advantages to a robotic fighter jet: it can be smaller, lighter, faster, and more efficient,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9],"tags":[397,394,395,396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}