{"id":57,"date":"2014-10-24T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:05:01","slug":"steadfast-noon-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=57&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Steadfast Noon 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Ghedi air base hosted the Steadfast Noon 2014 exercise. The objective of Steadfast Noon exercises is to train NATO crews in loading, unloading and employing the euphemistically called &#8220;special weapons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Air Force 6\u00b0 Stormo&#8217;s Tornado IDS, based here in Ghedi<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2367_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>German Luftwaffe Tornado IDS<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2396_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Polish Air Force F-16<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2346_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Turkish Air Force flew both a single-seat F-16&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2354_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and a two-seat one:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2358_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>USAF F-16, based in Aviano<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2379_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dutch Air Force F-16<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2383_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tiger Meet drop tanks<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2386_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Belgian Air Component F-16<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2401_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, a Learjet 35 used by a German civilian company as an electronic warfare threat simulator (notice the ECM pods loaded under its wings). The wings of the earlier Learjet versions, based on the Swiss prototype attack jet FFA P-16, have hardpoints for external loads. This means that earlier Learjets are often used by civilian companies for ECM training.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/coppfold\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/_MG_2403_221014.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Ghedi air base hosted the Steadfast Noon 2014 exercise. The objective of Steadfast Noon exercises is to train NATO crews in loading, unloading and employing the euphemistically called &#8220;special weapons&#8221;. Italian Air Force 6\u00b0 Stormo&#8217;s Tornado IDS, based here in Ghedi German Luftwaffe Tornado IDS Polish Air Force F-16 The Turkish Air Force &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=57&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link\">Continua la lettura di <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steadfast Noon 2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,17,18,12,22,19,16,21,14,20,13],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotting-report","tag-15","tag-air","tag-base","tag-exercise","tag-fighter","tag-force","tag-ghedi","tag-military","tag-noon","tag-spotting","tag-steadfast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}