{"id":146372,"date":"2024-11-02T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-us-navy-a-12-avenger-ii-program-canceled\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:28:21","slug":"why-the-us-navy-cancel-the-stealthy-a-12-avenger-ii-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=146372","title":{"rendered":"Why The US Navy Cancel The Stealthy A-12 Avenger II Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029430\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-6th-gen-fighter-jet-developer\/\" >sixth-generation fighter jets come closer to development<\/a><\/span> and take             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> into a new era of warfighting, the world is reminded of the futuristic fighters that came so close and yet never were. The A-12 Avenger II was to be an all-weather carrier-based attack aircraft and stealth bomber for the Grumman A-6 Intruder for 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>. While it faced the typical cost overruns and delays, many felt it was showing promise and was about to go into production.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029518\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/a-12-avenger-ii-us-navy-5-billion-failed-steath-bomber\/\" >And then, it was canceled<\/a><\/span>. But why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overweight, over budget, and late, the A-12 Avenger II collapsed along with the Soviet Union.<\/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":[396,628,240,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","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\/146372","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=146372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146372\/revisions\/146394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}