{"id":28244,"date":"2016-07-24T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/this-unstoppable-missile-has-russia-in-its-sights"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:11:32","slug":"this-unstoppable-missile-has-russia-in-its-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/this-unstoppable-missile-has-russia-in-its-sights","title":{"rendered":"This unstoppable missile has Russia in its sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-unstoppable-missile-has-russia-in-its-sights.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The technical details of air-to-air missiles are extremely complicated, but the concept is simple \u2014 destroy your target before the target destroys you.<\/p>\n<p>One way to improve the odds is to add an air-breathing ramjet engine to give the weapon a boost. That\u2019s the design philosophy behind the Meteor, a 419-pound rail-launched MiG killer which entered service for the first time with the Swedish air force on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>Stockholm\u2019s agile, delta-wing Gripen fighters carry the missiles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/635583\/unstoppable-missile-russia-sights\">http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/635583\/unstoppable-missile-russia-sights<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. The technical details of air-to-air missiles are extremely complicated, but the concept is simple \u2014 destroy your target before the target destroys you. One way to improve the odds is to add an air-breathing ramjet engine to give the weapon a boost. That\u2019s the design philosophy behind the Meteor, a 419-pound rail-launched MiG killer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50105,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions\/50105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}