{"id":86037,"date":"2024-07-13T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thai-air-force-picks-gripens-over-f-16s\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T00:28:06","slug":"thai-air-force-picks-saab-gripens-over-lockheed-martin-f-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=86037","title":{"rendered":"Thai Air Force Picks SAAB Gripens Over Lockheed Martin F-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/general\/2826769\/air-force-chooses-swedish-jets-over-us-f-16s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Bangkok Post<\/a>, the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has selected the Swedish-made Gripen E\/F fighter jet over its American-made <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\">F-16<\/a> Block 70 counterpart. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jas-39-gripen-vs-f-16-fighting-falcon-how-do-multirole-fighters-compare\/\">Saab Gripen and the Lockheed Martin F-16 are two popular fourth-generation multirole fighter jets<\/a> and are much cheaper and easier for smaller air forces to operate than the advanced fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand appears to have chosen Swedish Gripens to replace the aging F-16s with the new F-16 Block 70s.<\/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":[396,231,625,628,11471,716],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-asia","category-f-16","category-fighter-jets","category-saab-jas-39-gripen","category-thailand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86037","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=86037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86038,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86037\/revisions\/86038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}