{"id":142661,"date":"2024-10-22T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-us-army-chinook-replacement-program\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:00:12","slug":"5-fast-facts-on-the-us-armys-chinook-replacement-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142661","title":{"rendered":"5 Fast Facts On The US Army&#8217;s Chinook Replacement Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2025127\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-chinook-military-helicopter-facts-list\/\" >Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter and is one of the heaviest-lifting helicopters<\/a><\/span> in any Western army. However, despite continuous upgrades, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"185576\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/helicopter\/\"  >helicopter<\/a><\/span> is now an aging platform, having first flown in 1961. The Army has confirmed it is exploring operations for the next             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"658841\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>CH-47 Chinook<\/span><\/span> heavy-lift rotorcraft replacement. This comes after the cancelation of the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft and as         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2022454\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/bell-v280-valor-complete-guide\/\" >the Bell V-280 Valor program ramps up<\/a><\/span> and is expected to enter low-rate production in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has begun studies on replacing the venerable Chinook, but its replacement is still many years away.<\/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":[396,570,9361,474,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guide","category-h-47-chinook","category-helicopters","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661","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=142661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142662,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142661\/revisions\/142662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}