{"id":44330,"date":"2024-05-15T14:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T04:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-new-stealthy-tanker\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T04:11:32","slug":"what-we-know-of-the-us-air-forces-plans-for-new-stealthy-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=44330","title":{"rendered":"What We Know Of The US Air Forces Plans For New Stealthy Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tanker\/\">Tanker<\/a> aircraft are extremely vulnerable to enemy fire. If they fly within range of enemy air defense, they are little more than sitting ducks. To help overcome this problem, it seems the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a> is working to produce a stealthy (or low-observable) tanker called The Next-Generation Aerial Refueling System or NGAS. While high-profile aircraft like the F-22 and F-35 fighter jets tend to get attention, they can&#8217;t fulfill their missions if they are out of fuel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aerial-refueling-tankers-us-air-force-guide\/\">US Air Force&#8217;s extensive tanker fleet<\/a> is one of the key enablers of the organization.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force is planning to procure a stealthy tanker to survive the high-threat environments of the future.<\/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":[4259,396,412,7559,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-refueling","category-aircraft","category-military","category-tanker","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44330","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=44330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44331,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44330\/revisions\/44331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}