{"id":115739,"date":"2020-11-11T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-air-force-is-putting-death-rays-on-fighter-jets-yes-death-rays"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:22:38","slug":"the-air-force-is-putting-death-rays-on-fighter-jets-yes-death-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-air-force-is-putting-death-rays-on-fighter-jets-yes-death-rays","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force Is Putting Death Rays on Fighter Jets. Yes, Death Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-air-force-is-putting-death-rays-on-fighter-jets-yes-death-rays.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force envisions placing laser weapon systems on fighter jets by the mid-2020s. The service is banking on a defense contractor\u2019s SHiELD laser system, a pod-mounted laser that will protect fighters from incoming missiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2708 You love badass planes. So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force envisions placing laser weapon systems on fighter jets by the mid-2020s. The service is banking on a defense contractor\u2019s SHiELD laser system, a pod-mounted laser that will protect fighters from incoming missiles. \u2708 You love badass planes. So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115739","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=115739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}