{"id":428934,"date":"2026-05-16T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-f-35-taking-place-2nd-most-common-fighter-jet-world\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:00:19","slug":"how-the-f-35-is-taking-place-as-the-2nd-most-common-fighter-jet-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=428934","title":{"rendered":"How The F-35 Is Taking Place As The 2nd Most Common Fighter Jet In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern fighter jets are incredibly complicated machines, and multiple, seemingly contradictory things can be true at the same time. The Lockheed Martin <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> Lightning II is taking its place as the world&#8217;s second most common frontline fighter jet. It now takes a leading role and was central in destroying Iran&#8217;s air defense in Israeli\/US operations in 2024, 2025, and again in 2026. And yet, the F-35 remains an immature platform. The F-35 has yet to realize its full potential over 10 years after entering service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the F-35 has surpassed the Hornet to become the 2nd most common fighter jet by flyable airframes in the world.<\/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":[396,748,628,423,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428934","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=428934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428978,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428934\/revisions\/428978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}