{"id":161408,"date":"2024-12-25T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/weaponry-on-fighter-jets-obsolete\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T10:00:15","slug":"is-traditional-weaponry-on-fighter-jets-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=161408","title":{"rendered":"Is Traditional Weaponry On Fighter Jets Obsolete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is machine weaponry on             <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> becoming obsolete? Perhaps\u2014at least the trend has been against them for a long time. That said, they are not going anywhere for a long time yet. In fact,             <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> fighter jets have been observed being fired in anger multiple times in 2024. While time will tell if         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032691\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-secretary-ngad-cost-less-f-35\/\" >the sixth-generation NGAD fighter<\/a><\/span> (currently being developed) will feature traditional arms,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035159\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-cannons-fitted-us-fighter-jets\/\" >all US fighters in service today have guns<\/a><\/span> (or can be fitted with external pods).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traditional weaponry may not be as useful as it once was, all US fighters still have them, and they aren&#8217;t going anywhere anytime soon.<\/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":[9056,396,748,628,567,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-10-warthog","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","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\/161408","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=161408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161409,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161408\/revisions\/161409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}