{"id":95975,"date":"2024-07-28T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/military-transport-antonovs-converted-makeshift-bombers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T19:45:11","slug":"how-why-are-military-transport-antonovs-converted-to-makeshift-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=95975","title":{"rendered":"How &amp; Why Are Military Transport Antonovs Converted To Makeshift Bombers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    While the idea of using American C-130 Hercules as makeshift bombers may be strange, the same is not true of the Soviet Antonov transport counterparts. While <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/antonov\/\">Antonov<\/a> aircraft were built as transports, some (such as the An-26 and An-32) also had a secondary bombing role in mind (not the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/antonov-an-124-complete-guide\/\">large military transports like the An-124 <em>Ruslan<\/em><\/a>). This is not a role they perform well in, and they would be sitting ducks against modern air defenses, but they have been repeatedly used in this role in lower-scale conflicts against mostly insurgent groups.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anotonovs have often been converted into crude bombers, typically in lower-threat insurgent environments and often out of desperation.<\/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":[1258,396,596,1455,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-antonov","category-bomber","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95975","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=95975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95976,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95975\/revisions\/95976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}