{"id":480,"date":"2025-08-02T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/u-s-f-a-18fs-and-italian-f-35bs-simulate-cas-operations-over-black-sea\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:30:51","slug":"u-s-f-a-18fs-and-italian-f-35bs-simulate-cas-operations-over-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/u-s-f-a-18fs-and-italian-f-35bs-simulate-cas-operations-over-black-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. F\/A-18Fs and Italian F-35Bs Simulate CAS Operations Over Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9225806-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Neptune Strike Italian U.S. Mission Black Sea\" \/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. F\/A-18Fs and Italian F-35Bs conducted simulated CAS operations over the Black Sea and into Romanian training areas during NATO\u2019s Neptune Strike 25-2. As the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and its Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sail in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. Navy F\/A-18F Super Hornets and Italian F-35B Lightning IIs conducted simulated close-air [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/08\/02\/us-fa-18f-italian-f-35b-simulate-cas-black-sea\/\">U.S. F\/A-18Fs and Italian F-35Bs Simulate CAS Operations Over Black Sea<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. F\/A-18Fs and Italian F-35Bs conducted simulated CAS operations over the Black Sea and into Romanian training areas during NATO\u2019s Neptune Strike 25-2. As the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and its Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sail in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. Navy F\/A-18F Super Hornets and Italian F-35B Lightning IIs conducted simulated close-air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","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\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}