{"id":242841,"date":"2025-06-27T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/romania-gets-18-f-18s-for-1-euro\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:52:19","slug":"this-country-just-bought-18-f-16-fighter-jets-for-around-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=242841","title":{"rendered":"This Country Just &#8220;Bought&#8221; 18 F-16 Fighter Jets For Around $1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Romania confirmed that it would be acquiring 18 General Dynamics F-16 &#8216;Fighting Falcon&#8217; fighter jets from the Netherlands for the token sum of \u20ac1 ($1.17). The country serves as something of an unlikely hotbed for the type, as it houses the European F-16 Training Fighter Center in the city of Fete\u0219ti. Romania&#8217;s Defense Minister confirmed the deal at the recent<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> Summit in The Hague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal was confirmed at the recent NATO Summit.<\/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":[396,625,628,412,393,3341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-netherlands","category-romania"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242841","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=242841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242842,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242841\/revisions\/242842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}