{"id":150581,"date":"2024-11-21T22:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-army-aircraft-spending-rivals-land-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:01:14","slug":"wow-the-us-armys-aircraft-spending-rivals-land-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=150581","title":{"rendered":"Wow: The US Army&#8217;s Aircraft Spending Rivals Land Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 18, 1947, the Department of the Air Force was created (which now includes 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> and United States Space Force). This ended the United States Army Air Force, and the Army returned to its focus on land-based warfare &#8211; or did it? Does the Army spend more on helicopter (and some fixed-wing) procurement than vehicle procurement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States operates the largest fleet of helicopters in the world, and it has over 800 Apache gunships.<\/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":[1258,396,816,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-helicopter","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150581","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=150581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150582,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150581\/revisions\/150582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}