{"id":51638,"date":"2024-05-23T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-countries-still-ordering-f-16-fighting-falcon\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:00:12","slug":"the-5-countries-still-ordering-the-f-16-fighting-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=51638","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Countries Still Ordering The F-16 Fighting Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16<\/a> Block 70\/72 remains in productionbut only for export (the US Air Force no longer purchases F-16s). <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16s-arrive-in-ukraine-combat-record\/\">The F-16 has proven itself to be one of the most successful fighter jets ever made<\/a>. It is a relatively small, capable, affordable, and versatile fighter jet that many middle or smaller air forces can afford to operate. Both new and second-hand F-16s remain in demand all around the world. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lockheedmartin.com\/2024-1-16-In-Production-F-16-Block-70-Fighter-Jets-for-Bulgaria\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Lockheed Martin<\/a> says it currently has a backlog of 135 jets. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16-block-70-vs-other-4th-generation-fighters\/\">Block 70\/72 is the latest (and perhaps last) variant of the F-16 family<\/a> and is night and day different from the original aircraft produced in the late 1970s and 1980s.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being first introduced in the 1970s, the venerable F-16 fighter jet remains in strong demand around 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":[396,397,625,628,412,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638","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=51638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51639,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638\/revisions\/51639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}