{"id":147481,"date":"2024-11-06T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-cannons-fitted-us-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T05:00:17","slug":"5-us-fighter-jets-their-cannons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=147481","title":{"rendered":"5 US Fighter Jets &amp; Their Cannons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do cannons really matter anymore in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"540010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fifth-generation-fighter\/\"  >fifth-generation fighter jets<\/a><\/span>? For <em>Top Gun Maverick<\/em> fans out there (where stealth aircraft conveniently come up to exchange hand signals) &#8211; sure. Or for those who would like to point out the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2012\/07\/13\/fia12-typhoon-raptor\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Eurofighter Typhoon &#8216;shooting down&#8217;<\/a> the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"87592\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>F-22 Raptor<\/span><\/span> during training exercises. However, for fifth-generation fighters, they are reduced in importance &#8211; what&#8217;s more         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028297\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chengdu-j-20-what-to-know-about-mighty-dragon\/\" >the new Chinese J-20 Mighty Dragon does not have a cannon<\/a><\/span>. Regardless, all US             <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> are fitted with guns; here are five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only three types of cannons are currently fitted to the US Air Force, Marines, and Navy fighter jets.<\/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":[396,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","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\/147481","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=147481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147482,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147481\/revisions\/147482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}