{"id":156884,"date":"2024-12-11T20:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-awarded-451-million-us-air-force-contract-japan-f-15j-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T10:59:19","slug":"boeing-awarded-451-million-us-air-force-contract-for-japan-f-15j-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=156884","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Awarded $451 Million US Air Force Contract For Japan F-15J Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Contracts\/Contract\/Article\/3993982\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >announced<\/a> on 10 December 2024 that             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/boeing-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Boeing<\/a><\/span> had been awarded a nearly half-billion-dollar contract to upgrade dozens of Japan&#8217;s             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60440\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-15\/\"  >F-15J<\/a><\/span> fighter jets. As expected,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58384\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mitsubishi\/\"  >Mitsubishi<\/a><\/span> Heavy Industries (with Boeing support) will carry out the upgrade work locally in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136121\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/japan\/\"  >Japan<\/a><\/span>.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033769\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-ways-jasdf-f-2-f-15-fighters-unique\/\" >Japan operates license built F-15s and F-16s<\/a><\/span> &#8211; although there are some things that set them apart from their American counterparts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will upgrade many of its license-built F-15 Eagles to roughly an F-15EX equivalent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"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":[396,2125,567,9771,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-15","category-guides","category-japan","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156884","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=156884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156885,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156884\/revisions\/156885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}