{"id":99102,"date":"2024-08-02T00:38:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-army-orders-2-more-boeing-mh-47g-block-ii-chinooks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:38:31","slug":"us-army-special-ops-orders-2-more-boeing-mh-47g-block-ii-chinooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=99102","title":{"rendered":"US Army Special Ops Orders 2 More Boeing MH-47G Block II Chinooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/boeing.mediaroom.com\/news-releases-statements?item=131474\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Boeing<\/a> announced on August 1, 2024, that the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) has awarded Boeing a contract to supply another specialized MH-47G Block II Chinooks. While the Boeing Chinook first flew in 1961, it has been constantly evolved and updated. In April 2024, the newest variant, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-ch-47f-block-ii-chinook-first-flight\/\">the CH-47F Block II, took its first test flight<\/a> (it provides increased range and payload over earlier variants). <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-announces-ch-47f-block-ii-helicopter-first-delivery\/\">Boeing also stated earlier this year that the new variant is almost ready for deliveries<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s order book for specialized MH-47G Block II Chinooks has now grown to 46 units.<\/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":[396,398,9361,474,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-h-47-chinook","category-helicopters","category-military"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99102","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=99102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99103,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99102\/revisions\/99103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}