{"id":441546,"date":"2026-05-30T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-f-35-buy-means-european-air-power-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:00:20","slug":"from-neutral-to-nuclear-capable-host-what-this-f-35-buy-means-for-european-air-power-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=441546","title":{"rendered":"From Neutral To Nuclear-Capable Host: What This F-35 Buy Means For European Air Power In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <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> is <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2053718\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-f-35-taking-place-2nd-most-common-fighter-jet-world\/\" >taking its place as one of the most numerous and capable frontline fighter jets in Europe<\/a><\/span>. As of May 2026, there are around 200 F-35As and F-35Bs in service across the continent, with hundreds more expected to arrive over the next ten years. In various air forces, the F-35 is replacing aging Harrier jump jets, legacy F\/A-18 Hornets, F-16 Fighting Falcons, and Panavia Tornados. It is complementing the continent&#8217;s Eurofighter Typhoons (in the UK, Germany, Italy) and F-16s (in Poland and Romania).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-35 is now the tip of the air power spear for several European air forces and arguably for Europe in general.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441546","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=441546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441547,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441546\/revisions\/441547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}