{"id":155911,"date":"2024-12-08T23:53:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/belgian-f-35a-luke-air-force-base\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T23:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:53:30","slug":"1st-belgian-f-35a-lightning-ii-lands-at-luke-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=155911","title":{"rendered":"1st Belgian F-35A Lightning II Lands At Luke Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Belgian F-35A Lightning II arrived at Luke Air Force Base on 3 December 2024, marking an important milestone in the country&#8217;s transition to the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"540010\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fifth-generation-fighter\/\"  >fifth generation fighter<\/a><\/span> from the legacy             <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> Fighting Falcon. The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> Lightning II is easily the most popular and successful fifth-generation fighter jet, with almost all countries that could realistically order it having done so (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031120\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/which-countries-us-banned-buying-f-35\/\" >at least half a dozen requests to purchase the jet have been denied by the US<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Belgian F-35A has arrived at Luke AFB, where Belgian pilots have assembled to begin training on the new jet.<\/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":[396,867,120,748,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-belgium","category-europe","category-f-35","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155911","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=155911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155912,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155911\/revisions\/155912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}