{"id":21239,"date":"2024-03-20T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-was-the-northrop-yf-17-fighter-jet-its-legacy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:30:12","slug":"what-was-the-northrop-yf-17-fighter-jet-its-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=21239","title":{"rendered":"What Was The Northrop YF-17 Fighter Jet &amp; Its Legacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northrop Grumman YF-17 Cobra was a lightweight fighter aircraft prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF) in the 1970s. At the time, it was believed that many fighters, such as the F-15 Eagle, were too large, heavy, and expensive to operate. Therefore, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/northrop-yf-17-cobra-the-long-forgotten-common-ancestor-of-the-hornet-and-super-hornet-213662.html\">Auto Evolution Blog<\/a> highlighted, a lightweight fighter (LWF) was required to be introduced for inexpensive combat roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northrop Grumman YF-17 is the forebearer of the iconic F\/A-18 Hornet.<\/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":[396,6590,628,408,412,915],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-attack-jet","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-military","category-northrop-grumman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239","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=21239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21240,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239\/revisions\/21240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}