{"id":28586,"date":"2024-04-18T23:44:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/romanian-air-force-switch-mig-21s-us-f-16s-f-35s\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:44:56","slug":"why-the-romanian-air-force-is-switching-from-russian-mig-21s-to-us-f-16s-and-f-35s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=28586","title":{"rendered":"Why the Romanian Air Force is Switching From Russian MiG-21s to US F-16s and F-35s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            So why is the Romanian Air Force ditching its Russian MiG-21s and making the switch to F-16s and F-35s? Well, for those of our readers who are military history-savvy, the answer to that question should be fairly obvious. As this writer pointed out in a recent <em>Simple Flying<\/em> article titled &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/india-air-force-fighter-jets\/\">What Fighter Jets Does India Have?<\/a>,&rdquo; the MiG-21 &ldquo;Fishbed\/Bison&rdquo; is hopelessly obsolescent, as she made her maiden flight in 1955. In other words, it&rsquo;s a 2nd Generation jet fighter.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is modernizing her jet fighter fleet. Simple Flying was able to gain additional insights from Romanian defense experts on this transition.<\/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":[396,625,748,628,8011,8012,412,3341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-16","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-fleet-modernisation","category-mig-21","category-military","category-romania"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586","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=28586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28587,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28586\/revisions\/28587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}