{"id":209820,"date":"2025-05-03T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-sending-retired-f16s-ukraine-spare-parts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:34:28","slug":"the-us-is-sending-retired-f-16s-to-ukraine-as-spare-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=209820","title":{"rendered":"The US Is Sending Retired F-16s To Ukraine As Spare Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has become the latest country to send examples of the General Dynamics        <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> &#8216;Fighting Falcon&#8217; multirole fighter jet to Ukraine amid Russia&#8217;s ongoing military action in the country. However, these aircraft won&#8217;t see frontline service themselves, but, instead, will serve as a source of spare parts for other aircraft involved in the conflict. They made their way across the Atlantic last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jets were transported across the Atlantic last week on an Antonov cargo plane.<\/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":[396,625,628,412,341,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-ukraine","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209820","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=209820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209821,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209820\/revisions\/209821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}