{"id":22028,"date":"2026-04-07T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22028"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:08:20","slug":"the-mq-9-reaper-drone-was-great-when-the-enemy-didnt-have-anti-air-capabilities-but-when-they-do-the-slow-loud-and-radar-visible-drone-is-easily-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22028","title":{"rendered":"The MQ-9 Reaper drone was great when the enemy didn&#8217;t have anti-air capabilities, but when they do, the slow, loud, and radar-visible drone is easily shot down."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MQ-9 Reaper drone was great when the enemy didn&#8217;t have anti-air capabilities, but when they do, the slow, loud, and radar-visible drone is easily shot down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why US Military Is Abandoning MQ-9 Reaper\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vPY7CFUNW5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MQ-9 Reaper drone was great when the enemy didn&#8217;t have anti-air capabilities, but when they do, the slow, loud, and radar-visible drone is easily shot down. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPY7CFUNW5k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[13],"tags":[1004,553,259,1282,1780,619,1055],"class_list":["post-22028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft","tag-drones","tag-military","tag-planes","tag-surface-to-air-missile","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22030,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions\/22030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}