{"id":186647,"date":"2025-03-15T18:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/canada-portugal-rethink-plans-buy-f-35s-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:21:47","slug":"canada-portugal-rethink-plans-to-buy-f-35s-due-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=186647","title":{"rendered":"Canada &amp; Portugal Rethink Plans To Buy F-35s Due To Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With concerns about a supposed \u201ckill switch\u201d to the US President Donald Trump\u2019s views on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"34726\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nato\/\"  >NATO<\/a><\/span>), the new Carney Administration in         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182703\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/canada\/\"  >Canada<\/a><\/span> is considering whether to continue F-35A purchases to replace their aging F\/A-18A Hornets. Additionally, the Portuguese have decided to replace their aging F-16 Vipers with another fighter jet instead of 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>. However, finding a fighter jet that does not have American avionics or engines severely limits these NATO nations\u2019 options to the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"682021\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Saab JAS 39 Gripen<\/span><\/span> and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"540008\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dassault-rafale\/\"  >Dassault Rafale<\/a><\/span> pictured above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two key NATO allies are reconsidering plans to buy F-35s as a result of Trump Administration communications.<\/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":[396,713,625,748,628,627,412,1984,307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-canada","category-f-16","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-lockheed-martin","category-military","category-nato","category-portugal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186647","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=186647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186648,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186647\/revisions\/186648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}