{"id":74289,"date":"2017-12-08T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-f-35-could-intercept-a-north-korean-missile-launch-but-it-could-bring-an-all-out-war"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:00:54","slug":"the-f-35-could-intercept-a-north-korean-missile-launch-but-it-could-bring-an-all-out-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-f-35-could-intercept-a-north-korean-missile-launch-but-it-could-bring-an-all-out-war","title":{"rendered":"The F-35 could intercept a North Korean missile launch \u2014 but it could bring an all-out war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-f-35-could-intercept-a-north-korean-missile-launch-but-it-could-bring-an-all-out-war.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the F-35 program, usually not one to shy away from boasting about their achievements, has been hushed about the prospect of defeating one of the gravest threats to the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that the F-35 is a multi-mission fighter,\u201d Commander Patrick Evans of the Office of the Secretary of Defense told Business Insider when asked about the program. \u201cIt would be inappropriate to speculate on future capabilities or missions of the weapon system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Duncan Hunter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, was more open to speculating about why the Pentagon hadn\u2019t gone through with missile intercepting planes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/f-35-intercept-north-korean-icbm-but-would-be-war-2017-12\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/f-35-intercept-north-korean-i...017&#45;12<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the F-35 program, usually not one to shy away from boasting about their achievements, has been hushed about the prospect of defeating one of the gravest threats to the US. \u201cI can tell you that the F-35 is a multi-mission fighter,\u201d Commander Patrick Evans of the Office of the Secretary of Defense told Business [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74289","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74367,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74289\/revisions\/74367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}