{"id":6446,"date":"2010-07-20T00:25:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2010-07-19T22:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T04:46:57","slug":"canada-to-purchase-f-35-lightning-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/canada-to-purchase-f-35-lightning-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to Purchase F-35 Lightning II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has reportedly announced its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/International\/2010\/07\/16\/Canada-announces-fighter-jet-purchase\/UPI-59101279331305\/\">intention to purchase the F-35 <em>Lightning II<\/em><\/a> to replace its CF-18 fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has been a funding partner\u00a0in the F-35 program\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsf.mil\/program\/prog_intl.htm\">from its inception<\/a>, though this marks the first time it announced a plan to purchase the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2010\/07\/16\/f-f35-faq.html\">announcement<\/a> has already been met with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/07\/15\/liberals-fighter-jets.html\">political opposition<\/a> from within the Canadian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has reportedly announced its intention to purchase the F-35 Lightning II to replace its CF-18 fighters. Canada has been a funding partner\u00a0in the F-35 program\u00a0from its inception, though this marks the first time it announced a plan to purchase the aircraft. The announcement has already been met with political opposition from within the Canadian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,115,118,294,777,2],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-canada","tag-f-35","tag-jsf","tag-lightning","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}