{"id":642271,"date":"2020-01-07T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642271"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T12:01:16","slug":"aew-brings-reaper-airpower-into-new-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642271","title":{"rendered":"AEW brings Reaper airpower into new decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"115\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MQ-9-Reaper-drone-air-power-sm-190x115.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>CREECH AIR FORCE BASE: In early 2009, a recently reactivated combat unit, now named the 432nd Wing\/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, achieved the mark of 500,000 hours of combat, for a relatively new form of airpower, known as remotely piloted aircraft. In roughly a decade, the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper, RPAs designed for enhanced loitering [\u2026]&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/aew-brings-reaper-airpower-into-new-decade-72905\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">AEW brings Reaper airpower into new decade<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CREECH AIR FORCE BASE: In early 2009, a recently reactivated combat unit, now named the 432nd Wing\/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, achieved the mark of 500,000 hours of combat, for a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":642272,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642271","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/642272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}