{"id":34836,"date":"2024-05-05T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-worlds-2nd-most-powerful-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:30:12","slug":"how-the-us-navy-became-the-worlds-2nd-most-powerful-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=34836","title":{"rendered":"How The US Navy Became The World&#8217;s 2nd Most Powerful Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            It may be a reasonable (and obvious) assessment to say the US Air Force is <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-most-powerful-air-forces-world\/\">the most powerful air force on earth<\/a>. However, is the US Navy the world&#8217;s second most powerful air force? This is a difficult question to answer as, in part, it depends on what context &#8216;powerful&#8217; means. For the sake of this article, the Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\">Air Force<\/a> and the Marine Corps Air Force will be combined. It should also be kept in mind that the Navy and Marine Corps lack a number of capabilities some air forces have &#8211; such as strategic airlift transports, ground attack aircraft, and strategic bombers (in other words, different forces are built for different missions).    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy is arguably the second-most powerful in the world &#8211; although it is built for a particular mission set.<\/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":[1258,396,397,412,240,5680,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-military","category-north-america","category-us-marines","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836","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=34836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34837,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836\/revisions\/34837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}