{"id":35545,"date":"2022-03-22T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35545"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:52:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/22\/word-of-the-day-780\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Loitering munitions<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">The Russians are likely to suffer even heavier losses now that the United States is not only providing Ukrainians with many more Javelins but also 100\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/03\/17\/switchblade-drones-ukraine-russia-biden-war\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switchblade kamikaze drones<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 technically known as loitering munitions \u2014 that can stay aloft searching for a target and then dive into it. The combination of TB2 drones and Israeli-made loitering munitions proved highly potent for Azerbaijan in its victorious war against Armenia in 2020. As I previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/12\/08\/warfare-is-evolving-fast-we-need-secretary-defense-who-is-an-agent-change\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, 47 percent of Armenia\u2019s combat vehicles were damaged or destroyed.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/03\/22\/russia-invasion-ukraine-debate-future-war-tank-armor-drone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian tanks are taking a beating. Do they still have a place on the modern battlefield?<\/a>&#8221; Max Boot, <strong>WaPo<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Great name! So will Boot mention my idea for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/22\/through-time-and-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>faux<\/em>-crashed drones<\/a>&#8221; as having already been done?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loitering munitions: The Russians are likely to suffer even heavier losses now that the United States is not only providing Ukrainians with many more Javelins but also 100\u00a0Switchblade kamikaze drones\u00a0\u2014 technically known as loitering munitions \u2014 that can stay aloft searching for a target and then dive into it. The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/22\/word-of-the-day-780\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35546,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545\/revisions\/35546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}