{"id":143566,"date":"2024-10-25T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sub-saharan-african-countries-operate-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:00:13","slug":"do-any-sub-saharan-african-countries-operate-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=143566","title":{"rendered":"Do Any Sub-Saharan African Countries Operate Fighter Jets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do Sub-Saharan             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"1835\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-force\/\"  >air forces<\/a><\/span> possess             <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>? This article will answer that question using information provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/download?ac=98881\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >FlightGlobal<\/a> except for where there are other sources of information providing better information. This article will not consider North African states &#8211; Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and also Sudan (all of those countries have fighter jets &#8211; and often substantial fleets of them).         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029934\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sudanese-air-force\/\" >Sudan&#8217;s Air Force is heavily involved in the current civil war going on in that country<\/a><\/span> and its current composition is unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some African countries operate limited numbers of fighter jets, and only a handful have what can be considered modern multirole fighters.<\/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":[573,396,628,412,11471,6383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-saab-jas-39-gripen","category-sukhoi-su-25"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143566","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=143566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143567,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143566\/revisions\/143567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}