{"id":418843,"date":"2026-05-02T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/the-pentagons-order-for-85-f-35s-isnt-guaranteed-over-50-jets-depend-on-a-bill-that-may-never-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:01:17","slug":"the-pentagons-order-for-85-f-35s-isnt-guaranteed-over-50-jets-depend-on-a-bill-that-may-never-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=418843","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon&#8217;s Order For 85 F-35s Isn&#8217;t Guaranteed: Over 50 Jets Depend On A Bill That May Never Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations for the FY 2027 budget have begun, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fiscal-year-2027-topline-fact-sheet.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >the White House has requested an enormous $1.5 trillion budget<\/a>. The budget is around 42% larger than in FY 2026 and includes $1.15 trillion in the base request, with the remaining $350 billion to be taken up separately through a reconciliation package later on in the year. However, the funding is far from certain, and it remains to be seen whether all these aircraft will be funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While proposed F-35 jets in FY 2027 are a big jump over 2026, it is about average historically. For now, funding and final numbers remain uncertain.<\/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":[396,748,628,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418843","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=418843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418844,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418843\/revisions\/418844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}