{"id":242002,"date":"2025-06-25T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1415321"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:03:01","slug":"uk-to-follow-raaf-and-purchase-a-variant-f-35s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=242002","title":{"rendered":"UK to follow RAAF and purchase A-variant F-35s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1407114 wp-post-1415321\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/20241218raaf8683332_0001.jpg.iifwlcfuMYORnddjYBMA.f8AgL3coUz_jhalzi.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1740715974\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 677\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>According to reports, the aircraft will carry both nuclear and conventional weapons and the announcement was made following a recent appearance by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the NATO summit earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the aircraft will carry both nuclear and conventional weapons and the announcement was made following a recent appearance by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the NATO summit earlier this week.<\/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":[273,312,470,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-242002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-defence","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242002","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=242002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242003,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242002\/revisions\/242003"}],"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=242002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}