{"id":389781,"date":"2026-03-20T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-australia-canceled-order-f-35-fighter-jets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:00:19","slug":"heres-why-australia-canceled-its-order-for-f-35-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=389781","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Australia Canceled Its Order For F-35 Fighter Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"4481\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/australia\/\"  >Australia<\/a><\/span> has canceled (or, rather, paused) its planned purchase of a fourth squadron of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet aircraft. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026521\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-35-lightning-ii-australian-air-force\/\" >The F-35 is now fully operational in Australia and forms the backbone of the country&#8217;s fighter jet capability<\/a><\/span>. The door remains open for Australia purchasing a fourth squadron of F-35s, but the longer it&#8217;s delayed, the more choice Australia will have in purchasing upcoming aircraft, like the Tempest\/GCAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has extended the life of its Super Hornets, allowing it to cancel its final order of F-35s with the option to buy them another day.<\/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":[396,273,748,628,412,8953],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-australia","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-royal-australian-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389781","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=389781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389785,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389781\/revisions\/389785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}