{"id":107084,"date":"2020-05-14T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T03:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/us-air-force-works-towards-in-flight-updates-of-f-16-software"},"modified":"2020-05-14T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T03:47:50","slug":"us-air-force-works-towards-in-flight-updates-of-f-16-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/us-air-force-works-towards-in-flight-updates-of-f-16-software","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force works towards in-flight updates of F-16 software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-air-force-works-towards-in-flight-updates-of-f-16-software2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Air Force (USAF) is working toward being able to update the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter\u2019s software while the aircraft is in flight.<\/p>\n<p>The service believes updating software on the fly will reduce fielding time to its fleet by 50%, it says on 12 May. The USAF did not disclose how long it currently takes to update the software of an F-16.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"USAF Reserve F-16C takes off at Luke Air Force Base Arizona\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-air-force-works-towards-in-flight-updates-of-f-16-software3.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" width=\"8092\" height=\"5259\"  ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force (USAF) is working toward being able to update the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter\u2019s software while the aircraft is in flight. The service believes updating software on the fly will reduce fielding time to its fleet by 50%, it says on 12 May. The USAF did not disclose how long it currently [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}