{"id":106760,"date":"2024-08-13T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ageing-museum-air-forces-cuba-iran-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:00:12","slug":"ageing-museum-air-forces-how-do-cuba-iran-north-korea-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=106760","title":{"rendered":"Ageing Museum Air Forces: How Do Cuba, Iran &amp; North Korea Compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/cuba\/\">Cuba<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/north-korea\/\">North Korea<\/a> are all noted enemies of the United States and have long had strict arms embargoes placed on them. All three once operated regionally powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\">air forces<\/a>, but their composition today looks more like a flying museum than a modern air force. While arms embargoes have driven some countries to develop their own modern jets (like <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kfir-nesher-israeli-copies-of-french-mirage\/\">Israel with the Nesher and Kfir fighter jets<\/a>), others like Cuba, Iran, and North Korea have withered over the years.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba, Iran, and North Korea once had powerful air forces, but today, they pose little threat against a modern air force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6981,628,790,412,5978,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-cuba","category-fighter-jets","category-iran","category-military","category-north-korea","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106761,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106760\/revisions\/106761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}