{"id":148509,"date":"2024-11-09T22:39:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-ngas-unaffordable\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T12:39:49","slug":"us-air-force-secretary-next-generation-aerial-refueling-system-may-be-unaffordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=148509","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Secretary: Next-Generation Aerial Refueling System May Be Unaffordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> has rung the all-too-familiar warning bell that the Air Force&#8217;s planned Next-Generation Aerial Refueling System (NGAS) &#8211; a planned stealthy refueling tanker &#8211; may be unaffordable. One of the most important differences between a good aircraft and a bad aircraft is affordability (a good aircraft is the one that is built). No matter how good an aircraft may be, if it is too expensive, it may be         <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\/\" >canceled or prematurely terminated, like the A-12 Avenger II<\/a><\/span>, B-2 Spirit, and             <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>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGAS may be too expensive for the Air Force, according to new remarks by the Air Force Secretary.<\/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":[8316,396,240,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-tanker","category-aircraft","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\/148509","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=148509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148510,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148509\/revisions\/148510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}