{"id":6788,"date":"2010-08-09T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2010-08-08T23:43:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:43:18","slug":"us-to-sell-f-15s-to-saudi-arabia-israel-expresses-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/us-to-sell-f-15s-to-saudi-arabia-israel-expresses-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Sell F-15s to Saudi Arabia, Israel Expresses Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting revelation of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the US has said it will sell Saudi Arabia <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704268004575417351686379586.html?\">&#8220;very capable&#8221; F-15s<\/a>, though they will reportedly be &#8216;less capable&#8217; than some purchased by South Korea and Singapore.\u00a0 Reportedly, this would appease the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/08\/sell-f-fighter-jets-saudis\/\">concerns of Israel<\/a> about its military advantage in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, Saudi Arabia already has F-15s; this weapons buy would simply be a purchase of newer, more advanced versions of those aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting revelation of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the US has said it will sell Saudi Arabia &#8220;very capable&#8221; F-15s, though they will reportedly be &#8216;less capable&#8217; than some purchased by South Korea and Singapore.\u00a0 Reportedly, this would appease the concerns of Israel about its military advantage in the region. Of note, Saudi Arabia already has F-15s; this weapons buy would [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,222,888,2,887],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-f-15","tag-israel","tag-military","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","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=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}