{"id":5569,"date":"2015-02-11T07:09:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:09:44","slug":"pentagon-deploys-a-10-attack-jets-300-pilots-to-germany-amid-ukraine-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5569","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon deploys A-10 attack jets, 300 pilots to Germany amid Ukraine turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/231255-pentagon-europe-exercises-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon deploys A-10 attack jets, 300 pilots to Germany amid Ukraine turmoil<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The US Air Force dispatched a dozen A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jets and about 300 airmen to Germany as part of a military exercise, which is expected to involve NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid simmering tensions over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Cold War-era aircraft, nicknamed the Warthog, on Monday departed Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona for Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/us-nato-military-drills-107\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: Art of drills: 10 NATO war games that almost started armed conflicts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Christopher Karns, a spokesman for the Air Force at the Pentagon, said the aircraft would<em>\u201cforward-deploy\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to sites in Eastern European NATO states, where the units will participate in training with allied forces to\u00a0<em>\u201cstrengthen interoperability and\u2026demonstrate US commitment to the security and stability of Europe,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0he told military.com.<\/p>\n<p>The highly reliable A-10 carries a seven-barrel GAU-8\/A Avenger Gatling gun that fires 30mm rounds designed to destroy tanks and other armored combat vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon deploys A-10 attack jets, 300 pilots to Germany amid Ukraine turmoil The US Air Force dispatched a dozen A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jets and about 300 airmen to Germany as part of a military exercise, which is expected to involve NATO allies in Eastern Europe amid simmering tensions over Ukraine. The Cold War-era aircraft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3443,149,281,359,2150,553,821,834,862],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-attack-jets","tag-cold-war","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-military-exercises","tag-nato","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}