{"id":105249,"date":"2024-08-10T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-light-attack-aircraft-world-know-about\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:00:12","slug":"5-light-attack-aircraft-in-the-world-today-you-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=105249","title":{"rendered":"5 Light Attack Aircraft In The World Today You Should Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    While most attention goes to the world&#8217;s top fighter jets like the F-35, F-22, Su-34, Rafale, J-20, etc., this often glosses over the world&#8217;s fleets of light combat aircraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">Fighter jets<\/a> are often too expensive and even excessive for the needs of many <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\">air forces<\/a> around the world. While an F-35 may be needed to attack a peer adversary, it is overkill for many insurgent or armed trafficking groups around the world. Ukraine has even recently found a use for <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukraine-propeller-yak-52-shoots-russian-drones-ww2-style\/\">propeller Yk-52 trainers machine-gunning down Russian drones over Ukraine<\/a>. Here are five notable light combat aircraft.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light attack aircraft provide training and low-threat-environment air combat capabilities to air forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,4490,1019,12442,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-attack-aircraft","category-embraer","category-embraer-a-29-super-tucano","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105250,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105249\/revisions\/105250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}