{"id":55720,"date":"2024-05-29T21:54:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sweden-donates-awacs-aircraft-as-force-multiplier-to-ukraine-f16s\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T21:54:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:54:32","slug":"sweden-to-donate-awacs-aircraft-as-a-force-multiplier-for-f-16s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=55720","title":{"rendered":"Sweden To Donate AWACS Aircraft As A Force Multiplier For F-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            In a surprise move, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sweden\/\">Sweden<\/a> announced it would donate a rare and expensive ASC 890 Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft (Saab 340 AEW&#038;C or AWACS) to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> as part of its largest-ever aid package totaling SEK 13.3 billion or $1.3 USD. The package also includes many missiles, armored vehicles, and other equipment to help Ukraine defend itself. This announcement comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukranian-air-force-30-f-16-belgium-no-fly-over-russia\/\">Belgium announcing it would donate 30 retiring F-16s to Ukraine<\/a>.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has announced it will supply one of its two ASC 890 AWACS aircraft to Ukraine as it is due to receive F-16 fighter jets.<\/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":[396,120,9799,3298,1968,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-saab340","category-spy-plane","category-sweden","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55720","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=55720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55721,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55720\/revisions\/55721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}