{"id":728392,"date":"2022-06-30T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728392"},"modified":"2022-06-30T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:17:55","slug":"greece-formalizes-request-for-us-made-f-35-fighter-jets-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728392","title":{"rendered":"Greece formalizes request for US-made F-35 fighter jets: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalk<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/F-35-JSF.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"F-35A Lightning II Fighter Jet\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" data-full-width=\"1648\" data-full-height=\"1080\" \/>Greece has formalized a request for US-made F-35 fighter jets, its prime minister said Thursday, with Athens seeking to bolster its airforce amid tension with neighboring Turkey. \u201cIt is our intention to acquire a squadron of F-35s, with a possible option on a second (squadron),\u201d Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the end of a [\u2026]https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/greece-formalizes-request-for-us-made-f-35-fighter-jets-pm-79051\/&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/greece-formalizes-request-for-us-made-f-35-fighter-jets-pm-79051\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greece formalizes request for US-made F-35 fighter jets: PM<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalkGreece has formalized a request for US-made F-35 fighter jets, its prime minister said Thursday, with Athens seeking to bolster its airforce amid tension with neighboring Turkey. \u201cIt is our&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728393,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728392","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\/728392","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=728392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/728393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}