{"id":17841,"date":"2015-11-20T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17841"},"modified":"2023-01-31T20:32:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:32:48","slug":"air-minded-non-starter-option-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17841","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Non-Starter Option Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-20 at 8.52.20 AM\" href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/us-considers-72-new-f-15s-or-f-16s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5646\/23184965991_8eb893caac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-20 at 8.52.20 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In July, I posted an Air-Minded Diary titled <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16895\">The Non-Starter Option<\/a>. In it, I proposed purchasing new F-15s, F-16s, and F\/A-18s (all of which are still in production) for the USAF and USN. My argument was that new F-15s, which are far more capable that the older models currently in use, are needed to supplement the USAF\u2019s small F-22 force; and that new F-16s and F\/A-18s, also more capable than older models currently in use, would be a hedge against the possibility that the F-35 buy will be smaller than envisioned.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy to report today that <a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/us-considers-72-new-f-15s-or-f-16s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">military decision-makers are Paul&#8217;s Thing readers<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Now where\u2019s my money?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, I posted an Air-Minded Diary titled The Non-Starter Option. In it, I proposed purchasing new F-15s, F-16s, and F\/A-18s (all of which are still in production) for the USAF and USN. My argument was that new F-15s, which are far more capable that the older models currently in use, are needed to supplement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1960,3,14],"tags":[45,1912,1911],"class_list":["post-17841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-minded","category-flying","category-military","tag-f-15","tag-f-16","tag-fa-18"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32709,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions\/32709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}