{"id":167142,"date":"2025-01-15T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-spain-selected-eurofighter-to-replace-f-18s\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T05:00:17","slug":"why-spain-selected-the-eurofighter-to-replace-its-f-18s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=167142","title":{"rendered":"Why Spain Selected The Eurofighter To Replace Its F-18s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Air and Space Force has ordered another batch of 25 Eurofighter             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"270987\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/typhoon\/\"  >Typhoon<\/a><\/span> jets to replace its aging fleet of F\/A-18 Hornets. But why did Spain select Eurofighters over 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\u2014or is it?             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44412\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/spain\/\"  >Spain<\/a><\/span> is perhaps         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036123\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/eligible-country-ordered-f-35\/\" >the most obvious country that has yet to purchase the American F-35 fighter jet<\/a><\/span> (France and Sweden are squarely focused on their indigenous Rafale and Gripen fighter jets). Most able European air forces are purchasing the F-35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has placed another order for domestically assembled Eurofighters while still leaving the F-35 question open.<\/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":[396,120,628,1024,6350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-fighter-jets","category-spain","category-typhoon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167142","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=167142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167143,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167142\/revisions\/167143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}