{"id":496,"date":"2025-08-06T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/spain-drops-f-35-plans-looks-to-european-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:44:09","slug":"spain-drops-f-35-plans-looks-to-european-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/spain-drops-f-35-plans-looks-to-european-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Drops F-35 Plans, Looks to European Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Spain-F-35-decision-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Spain F-35\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the need to modernize, Spain shelves F-35 plans, leaving its Navy without a STOVL replacement. The purchase of F-35 Lightning II aircraft, the fifth-generation American stealth fighter, for the Spanish Armed Forces has been definitively shelved, according to a report published by the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds, citing government sources. Preliminary contacts that had [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/08\/06\/spain-f-35-plans\/\">Spain Drops F-35 Plans, Looks to European Alternatives<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the need to modernize, Spain shelves F-35 plans, leaving its Navy without a STOVL replacement. The purchase of F-35 Lightning II aircraft, the fifth-generation American stealth fighter, for the Spanish Armed Forces has been definitively shelved, according to a report published by the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds, citing government sources. Preliminary contacts that had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","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\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}