{"id":564513,"date":"2019-01-07T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=712d80ccb7d2d878d009eb8971b13907"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:30:07","slug":"drones-caused-havoc-at-gatwick-so-why-are-governments-still-spending-billions-on-tanks-and-aircraft-carriers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=564513","title":{"rendered":"Drones caused havoc at Gatwick, so why are governments still spending billions on tanks and aircraft carriers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disruption caused by reports of drones flying over Gatwick airport in December 2018 was a magnificent illustration of the uselessness of the UK&#8217;s big-ticket defence spending. The United Kingdom is not short of high-end military kit. Apart from its nuclear deterrent (which may or may not be in working order), the nation&#8217;s \u00a337 billion annual defence spending has allowed it to build, buy and maintain a formidable array of weapons systems. Britain&#8217;s new aircraft carrier provides a platform for F-35 fighter planes and, according to the UK defence secretary, the power &#8220;to strike decisively from the seas anywhere in the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disruption caused by reports of drones flying over Gatwick airport in December 2018 was a magnificent illustration of the uselessness of the UK&#8217;s big-ticket defence spending. The United Kingdom is not short of high-end military kit. Apart from its nuclear deterrent (which may or may not be in working order), the nation&#8217;s &pound;37 billion annual defence spending has allowed it to build, buy and maintain a formidable array of weapons systems. Britain&#8217;s new aircraft carrier provides a platform for F-35 fighter planes and, according to the UK defence secretary, the power &#8220;to strike decisively from the seas anywhere in the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564514,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564513\/revisions\/564514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}