{"id":2907,"date":"2018-01-02T22:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2018-01-02T22:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:58:46","slug":"with-a-minor-tweak-f-35s-could-shoot-down-north-korea-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/01\/02\/with-a-minor-tweak-f-35s-could-shoot-down-north-korea-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"WITH A MINOR TWEAK F-35S COULD SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREA MISSILES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1104\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B-1024x623.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B-560x341.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B-260x158.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASRAAM-F-35B-160x97.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Business Insider<\/p>\n<p>By \u00a0\u00a0Alex Lockie<\/p>\n<p>As the US military begins deploying the F-35, which brings with it the promise of revolutionizing aerial combat, it may also be deploying a ballistic-missile defense asset.<\/p>\n<p>US jet fighters have spent decades trying to master the air-to-air kill. In the days of &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; and the F-14 Tomcat, that meant turning dogfights, with a mix of guns and missiles to outfox the other pilot.<\/p>\n<p>But today a new threat has taken aim at the US, and it&#8217;s more dangerous than any fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>As North Korea works toward building out its missile technology to put the US mainland in range of its nuclear arsenal, the F-35&#8217;s new air target may be a missile, not a fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/f-35s-shoot-down-north-korean-missile-launches-2017-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Business Insider By \u00a0\u00a0Alex Lockie As the US military begins deploying the F-35, which brings with it the promise of revolutionizing aerial combat, it may also be deploying a ballistic-missile defense asset. US jet fighters have spent decades trying to master the air-to-air kill. In the days of &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; and the F-14&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/01\/02\/with-a-minor-tweak-f-35s-could-shoot-down-north-korea-missiles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WITH A MINOR TWEAK F-35S COULD SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREA MISSILES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[954,636],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-f-35","tag-north-korea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}