{"id":109239,"date":"2020-06-28T05:44:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-new-scout-helicopter-will-replace-half-the-armys-apache-fleet"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:44:15","slug":"a-new-scout-helicopter-will-replace-half-the-armys-apache-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-new-scout-helicopter-will-replace-half-the-armys-apache-fleet","title":{"rendered":"A new scout helicopter will replace half the Army\u2019s Apache fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-scout-helicopter-will-replace-half-the-armys-apache-fleet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Undeterred by decades of failure, the U.S. Army is trying again to acquire a new scout helicopter. The new rotorcraft is supposed to restore the dedicated aerial scout mission the Army gave up when in 2017 it retired its roughly 300 Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior copters.<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a surprise. The new Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft also will replace half of the ground-combat branch\u2019s 700 Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undeterred by decades of failure, the U.S. Army is trying again to acquire a new scout helicopter. The new rotorcraft is supposed to restore the dedicated aerial scout mission the Army gave up when in 2017 it retired its roughly 300 Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior copters. And here\u2019s a surprise. The new Future Attack Reconnaissance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109239","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=109239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}