{"id":167064,"date":"2015-07-20T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=167064"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:11:41","slug":"uks-raf-training-foreign-states-counter-militant-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/uks-raf-training-foreign-states-counter-militant-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;UK\u2019s RAF training foreign states to counter militant missiles&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A new report says staff from the UK\u2019s Royal Air Force (RAF) are training foreign governments to prevent airliners being shot down by militant missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Sunday Times, a team of British experts, including RAF troops, has been training foreign governments on how to increase security at airports to prevent such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The report says UK government officials estimate that up to 10,000 portable, ground-to-air missile systems, known as \u201cmanpads\u201d, went missing from Libyan arms bunkers after the 2011 revolution in the North African country.<\/p>\n<p>The shoulder-launched missiles have since turned up in war zones and failed states across Africa and the Middle East, and have been described as an unprecedented menace to air traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/20\/421092\/UK-training-govts-militant-missiles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report says staff from the UK\u2019s Royal Air Force (RAF) are training foreign governments to prevent airliners being shot down by militant missiles. According to the Sunday Times, a team of British experts, including RAF troops, has been training foreign governments on how to increase security at airports to prevent such attacks. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}