{"id":117347,"date":"2024-08-30T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-countries-us-banned-buying-f-35-lightning-ii-fighter-jet\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:00:12","slug":"5-reasons-the-us-has-banned-countries-from-buying-the-f-35-lightning-ii-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=117347","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons The US Has Banned Countries From Buying The F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    While the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-countries-beyond-us-equipped-with-f-35-lightning-ii\/\">United States is exporting F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to its allies and partners around the world<\/a>. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\">F-35<\/a> is still regarded as a closely guarded secret, and the US places many stringent and often &#8220;onerous&#8221; conditions on countries that purchase the aircraft. For example, even though Israel is a very close ally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/pauliddon\/2023\/01\/09\/why-the-us-imposes-onerous-preconditions-and-restrictions-on-middle-east-f-35s\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >US forbids<\/a> Israeli pilots who have foreign passports from flying them. The US is <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/which-countries-us-banned-buying-f-35\/\">barring several allies from purchasing F-35s<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States goes to great lengths to protect its allies and the technology in its prized F-35 fighter jets.<\/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":[396,397,748,2026,412,1328,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-f-35","category-fifth-generation-fighter","category-military","category-united-states-air-force","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117347","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=117347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117348,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117347\/revisions\/117348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}