{"id":388777,"date":"2026-03-18T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-f-47-fa-xx-fighter-gap-delay-2035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:35:25","slug":"f-47-f-a-xx-delays-us-air-power-faces-critical-fighter-gap-until-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=388777","title":{"rendered":"F-47 &amp; F\/A-XX Delays: US Air Power Faces Critical &#8216;Fighter Gap&#8217; Until 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is facing a new headache as news has emerged that two of its key sixth-generation fighter jet projects \u2014 the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> F-47 and F\/A-XX \u2014 are unlikely to enter service until the mid-2030s. This will force the country to extend the service life of its <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"87592\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>F-22 Raptor<\/span><\/span> and F\/A-18 Super Hornet fleets, creating a &#8216;fighter gap&#8217; that could last over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both platforms are experiencing delays likely to persist into the next decade.<\/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":[12160,396,628,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-generation-fighter-jet","category-aircraft","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388777","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=388777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388780,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388777\/revisions\/388780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}