{"id":97065,"date":"2024-07-29T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-to-know-britains-f-35-lightning-ii-program\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:00:12","slug":"saved-or-scrapped-what-to-know-about-britains-f-35-lightning-ii-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=97065","title":{"rendered":"Saved Or Scrapped? What To Know About Britain&#8217;s F-35 Lightning II Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The United Kingdom is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-countries-beyond-us-equipped-with-f-35-lightning-ii\/\">the top export customers of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fifth-generation fighter<\/a>. The British <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\">F-35B<\/a> acquisition has faced a rocky road, with the number planned seeming to change constantly. They are vital for the British ability to maintain an expeditionary fighting capability. Separately, a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/raf-f-35-lightning-stealth-fighter-near-collision-drone\/\">British F-35B had a near-miss with a drone flying 36x above the legal height<\/a>. The UK is also the only country to soley purchase the naval F-35B S\/VTOL variant of the fighter for both its navy and air force.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s F-35 program is vital to maintaining the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy&#8217;s ability to project power.<\/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":[396,748,412,411,12043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-military","category-royal-air-force","category-royal-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065","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=97065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97066,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97065\/revisions\/97066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}