{"id":176,"date":"2008-05-22T13:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T18:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-05-22T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T18:44:04","slug":"fear-the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/fear-the-reaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear the Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news!\u00a0 Now the Air Force can successfully drop 500-pound bombs from unmanned aerial vehicles!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An MQ-9 Reaper successfully dropped its first GPS-guided GBU-49 missile during a live-fire test May 13 at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, at China Lake, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Manned U.S. aircraft have frequently dropped the 500-pound bomb loaded with a GPS kit in Iraq and Afghanistan because of its accuracy and ability to reduce collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots and sensor operators with the 658th Aeronautical Systems Squadron flew three Reaper sorties and dropped six GBU-49s on target, according to an Air Force Material Command news release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c3\/RQ-9_Predator.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news!\u00a0 Now the Air Force can successfully drop 500-pound bombs from unmanned aerial vehicles! An MQ-9 Reaper successfully dropped its first GPS-guided GBU-49 missile during a live-fire test May 13 at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, at China Lake, Calif. Manned U.S. aircraft have frequently dropped the 500-pound bomb loaded with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,10,203,148,9,263,155,128],"tags":[220,276,274,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}