{"id":141973,"date":"2024-10-20T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-fighter-jets-era-ending-with-f-35\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T08:00:12","slug":"is-the-era-of-us-fighter-jets-coming-to-an-end-with-the-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141973","title":{"rendered":"Is The Era Of US Fighter Jets Coming To An End With The F-35?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the era of US-manned             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> within sight? Possibly. The F-15&#8217;s production is entering its twilight,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031992\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-f-35-lightning-ii-fighter-jets-lockheed-martin-build\/\" >the F-35 is in full swing,<\/a><\/span> the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"663468\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider<\/span><\/span> is ramping up, and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029246\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-ngad-not-f-22-raptor-replacement\/\" >NGAD is in development and perpetually uncertain<\/a><\/span>. However, what all these 5th and 6th-generation fighters have in common is low production numbers compared to their 4th-generation predecessors. Additionally, it is unclear if there are any plans for manned combat aircraft beyond them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps less than 2,000 manned combat aircraft remain to be built as the Air Force pivots evermore to unmanned platforms.<\/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":[396,397,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141973","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=141973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141974,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141973\/revisions\/141974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}