{"id":1653,"date":"2026-02-12T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/reports-suggest-f-35s-are-being-delivered-without-radar-amid-apg-85-delays\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:07:49","slug":"reports-suggest-f-35s-are-being-delivered-without-radar-amid-apg-85-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/reports-suggest-f-35s-are-being-delivered-without-radar-amid-apg-85-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports Suggest F-35s Are Being Delivered Without Radar Amid APG-85 Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9470067-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Radar-less F-35\" \/>According to reports, U.S. F-35 might have been delivered since June 2025 with a ballast in place of the new APG-85 radar which has been suffering from delays. Recent reports indicate that a number of newly delivered F-35 Lightning II aircraft may be entering service without a fully installed onboard radar. The issue, first reported [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, U.S. F-35 might have been delivered since June 2025 with a ballast in place of the new APG-85 radar which has been suffering from delays. Recent reports indicate that a number of newly delivered F-35 Lightning II aircraft may be entering service without a fully installed onboard radar. The issue, first reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}