{"id":41172,"date":"2024-05-11T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-are-combat-capabilities-royal-jordanian-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T11:30:12","slug":"what-are-the-combat-capabilities-of-the-royal-jordanian-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=41172","title":{"rendered":"What Are The Combat Capabilities of the Royal Jordanian Air Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            On April 16, 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2024\/04\/jordans-abdullah-ii-defends-shootdown-of-iranian-munitions-over-its-airspace-during-attack-on-israel\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Breaking Defense<\/a> reported that Jordan&#8217;s air force shot down several of Iran&#8217;s drones and missiles during the latter&#8217;s country attack on Israel. The article didn&#8217;t specify what weapons systems were used but did state that &#8220;Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/jordans-air-defence-ready-shoot-down-any-iranian-aircraft-that-violate-its-2024-04-13\/\">reported<\/a> Jordian air force jets conducted some interceptions&#8221; and cited a Middle East security expert who &#8220;surmised US-made systems were likely used.&#8221;    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) shot down several drones during Iran&#8217;s recent attack on Israel. We now examine the RJAF&#8217;s combat capabilities.<\/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":[1258,396,595,625,474,9078],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-f-16","category-helicopters","category-jordan-aviation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172","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=41172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41175,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172\/revisions\/41175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}