{"id":970,"date":"2025-10-21T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/germany-wants-15-more-f-35a-lightning-iis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:59:27","slug":"germany-wants-15-more-f-35a-lightning-iis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/germany-wants-15-more-f-35a-lightning-iis\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Wants 15 More F-35A Lightning IIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Germany-More-F35-1-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Germany More F-35s\" \/>Germany has already contracted 35 F-35As, and the additional aircraft would take its planned fleet to 50 airframes. Nearly seven months after German media reported the country\u2019s Minister of Defense Boris Pistorious backing his country\u2019s choice to acquire 35 F-35 Lightning IIs, and vehemently denying speculations about a rethink, Der Spiegel has now reported budgetary [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany has already contracted 35 F-35As, and the additional aircraft would take its planned fleet to 50 airframes. Nearly seven months after German media reported the country\u2019s Minister of Defense Boris Pistorious backing his country\u2019s choice to acquire 35 F-35 Lightning IIs, and vehemently denying speculations about a rethink, Der Spiegel has now reported budgetary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","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\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}