{"id":720341,"date":"2022-04-05T05:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720341"},"modified":"2022-04-05T05:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:44:28","slug":"us-approves-sale-of-eight-f-16-combat-aircraft-to-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720341","title":{"rendered":"US approves sale of eight F-16 combat aircraft to Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalk<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1821\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/F-16-fighter-jet-cope-north-2020-3000x1821-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" data-full-width=\"1779\" data-full-height=\"1080\" \/>The US Defense Department approved Monday the sale of eight F-16 combat aircraft to Bulgaria for $1.67 billion, bolstering its air force as the regional threat has risen after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. \u201cThe proposed sale will improve Bulgaria\u2019s capability to meet current and future threats by enabling the Bulgarian Air Force to deploy modern [\u2026]https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/us-approves-sale-of-eight-f-16-combat-aircraft-to-bulgaria-78586\/&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/us-approves-sale-of-eight-f-16-combat-aircraft-to-bulgaria-78586\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US approves sale of eight F-16 combat aircraft to Bulgaria<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalkThe US Defense Department approved Monday the sale of eight F-16 combat aircraft to Bulgaria for $1.67 billion, bolstering its air force as the regional threat has risen after Russia\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720342,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/720342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}