{"id":742635,"date":"2022-12-05T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=742635"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:11:30","slug":"concerns-mount-about-germanys-f-35-jet-purchase-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=742635","title":{"rendered":"Concerns mount about Germany\u2019s F-35 jet purchase plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalk<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1528\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/lockheed-martin-F-35-fighter-jet.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" data-full-width=\"1528\" data-full-height=\"1080\" \/>Germany\u2019s defence ministry has raised serious concerns about the planned purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets, part of the country\u2019s military modernization drive, according to documents seen by AFP. Berlin announced in March it would buy 35 of the warplanes made by Lockheed Martin to replace its ageing Tornado fleet, in the wake of Russia\u2019s [\u2026]https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/concerns-mount-about-germanys-f-35-jet-purchase-plan-79639\/&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/concerns-mount-about-germanys-f-35-jet-purchase-plan-79639\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Concerns mount about Germany\u2019s F-35 jet purchase plan<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Air Force News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DefenceTalkGermany\u2019s defence ministry has raised serious concerns about the planned purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets, part of the country\u2019s military modernization drive, according to documents seen by AFP. Berlin&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742636,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742635","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\/742635","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=742635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/742636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}