{"id":90089,"date":"2024-07-19T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/a-12-avenger-ii-us-navy-5-billion-failed-steath-bomber\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:00:11","slug":"a-12-avenger-ii-the-us-navys-failed-5-billion-flying-dorito-stealth-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=90089","title":{"rendered":"A-12 Avenger II: The US Navy&#8217;s Failed $5 Billion &#8216;Flying Dorito&#8217; Stealth Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Developing all-new, cutting-edge <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter jets<\/a> is hard and expensive. In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, the US <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-2-billion-b-2-spirt-stealth-bomber-too-pricey-to-fix\/\">prematurely cut many of its expensive programs, like the B-2 Spirit<\/a> and the F-22 Raptor. However, while those were canceled early, the A-12 Avenger II was canceled before it ever got off the ground. The eye-catching A-12 Avenger II became known as a symbol of procurement failure from excessive cost overruns and strategic misalignments.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite high hopes, the futuristic A-12 Avenger II became one of the US Navy&#8217;s most significant procurement failures.<\/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":[396,1880,628,408,412,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-experimental-planes","category-fighter-jets","category-history","category-military","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089","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=90089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90090,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089\/revisions\/90090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}