{"id":38124,"date":"2024-05-08T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-ways-f-35-lightning-ii-totally-wow\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:00:12","slug":"5-ways-the-f-35-lightning-ii-is-just-totally-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=38124","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways The F-35 Lightning II Is Just Totally Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Throughout its development, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\">F-35<\/a> joint strike <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\">fighter<\/a> got a bad rapmostly from its delays, cost overruns, and accusations that it was a poor dogfighter. But now that the platform has matured, few dispute that it is perhaps the world&#8217;s premier multi-role fighter. Its per-unit costs have now become similar to those of some 4.5-generation aircraft (a bit over $100 million). What is indisputable is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a>&#8216;s and Navy&#8217;s aircraft have evolved prodigiously over the years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-first-fighter-f-35-comparison\/\">first aircraft the Navy acquired 100 years ago looks nothing like the F-35<\/a> today.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-35 is arguably the most advanced fighter jet in the world today &#8211; and is certainly the most numerous and popular 5th-gen fighter.<\/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":[396,748,2026,628,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fifth-generation-fighter","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38124","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=38124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38125,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38124\/revisions\/38125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}