{"id":138987,"date":"2024-10-11T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-delays-ep-3e-spy-plane-retirement\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:38:53","slug":"us-navy-delays-ep-3e-aries-ii-spy-plane-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=138987","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Delays EP-3E Aries II Spy Plane Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> is reported to have decided to hold onto its EP-3E Aries II spy planes for a little longer while putting their retirement on hold. These are being progressively replaced by the new advanced Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton maritime patrol             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15058\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\"  >drones<\/a><\/span>. Meanwhile, the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029582\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/roles-usaf-ec-130h-compass-call-electronic-warfare\/\" >Air Force is in the process of retiring its EC-130H Compass Call aircraft<\/a><\/span> , replacing them with         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031668\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/1st-usaf-air-combat-command-ea-37b-delivered-davis-monthan-afb\/\" >the EA-37B based on the Gulfstream business jet<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US will keep the aging P3 Orion-derived EP-3E recon aircraft in service a little longer as it transitions to the MQ-4C Triton.<\/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":[396,1624,240,3298,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-lockheed","category-north-america","category-spy-plane","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138987","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=138987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138988,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138987\/revisions\/138988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}