{"id":143765,"date":"2024-10-25T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-martin-successful-1st-flight-bulgarian-f-16-block-70\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T08:35:17","slug":"lockheed-martin-conducts-successful-1st-flight-of-bulgarian-f-16-block-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=143765","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Conducts Successful 1st Flight Of Bulgarian F-16 Block 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60498\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-martin\/\"  >Lockheed Martin<\/a><\/span> has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lockheedmartin.com\/2024-10-24-Lockheed-Martin-Announces-Successful-Flight-of-First-Bulgarian-F-16-Block-70-Aircraft\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >reported<\/a> that it conducted the first test flight of the Bulgarian             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58722\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\"  >F-16<\/a><\/span> Block 70 fighter jet (Bulgaria is one of         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027129\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-countries-still-ordering-f-16-fighting-falcon\/\" >several countries still purchasing the F-16 fighter jet<\/a><\/span>). The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026126\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16-block-70-vs-other-4th-generation-fighters\/\" >F-16 Block 70\/72 is the last variant of the F-16 Fighting Falcon<\/a><\/span> and is being produced for export only (the United States Air Force no longer purchases F-16s). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Bulgarian F-16 successfully took flight at Lockheed&#8217;s production facility in North Carolina.<\/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":[396,3339,625,628,567,627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bulgaria","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-guides","category-lockheed-martin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143765","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=143765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143766,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143765\/revisions\/143766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}