{"id":140619,"date":"2024-10-16T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-us-military-aircraft-operate-in-arctic-circle\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T06:00:12","slug":"which-us-military-aircraft-operate-in-the-arctic-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=140619","title":{"rendered":"Which US Military Aircraft Operate In The Arctic Circle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we look at what United States military aircraft operate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/best-arctic-flight-planes\/\" >Arctic Circle<\/a>, let&#8217;s define what it is and why it is vital to America and its Allies. The word &#8220;Arctic&#8221; is a combination of two Greek words: arktikos (near the bear) and arktos (bear). In Greek, it refers to the constellation Ursa Major, the &#8220;Great Bear,&#8221; or Ursa Minor, &#8220;Little Bear,&#8221; two of 48 constellations listed by Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arctic is vital to the strategic defense of the United States, which is why there are three USAF bases in Alaska.<\/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":[396,1486,397,412,240,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-alaska","category-analysis","category-military","category-north-america","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140619","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=140619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140620,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140619\/revisions\/140620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}