{"id":7469,"date":"2010-10-07T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T06:04:23","slug":"dutch-f-16s-headed-for-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/dutch-f-16s-headed-for-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch F-16s Headed for Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands, one of the few countries that builds its own F-16s, rather than purchasing them from the US,\u00a0is reportedly reducing its fleet of F-16s by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Business_News\/Security-Industry\/2010\/09\/28\/Refurbished-Dutch-F-16s-bound-for-Chilean-air-force\/UPI-10521285693956\/\">selling some to Chile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch are also one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.key.aero\/view_news.asp?ID=2541&amp;thisSection=military\">partner nations in the F-35 program<\/a>, which is intended to replace the F-16, though their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post:126f6b53-45ed-4603-b333-56e5e9a80e20\">continued participation has been controversial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands, one of the few countries that builds its own F-16s, rather than purchasing them from the US,\u00a0is reportedly reducing its fleet of F-16s by selling some to Chile. The Dutch are also one of the partner nations in the F-35 program, which is intended to replace the F-16, though their continued participation has been controversial.<\/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":[1051,186,118,5285,2,1050],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-dutch","tag-f-16","tag-f-35","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","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=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}