{"id":8729,"date":"2018-07-25T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2018-09-17T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:10:02","slug":"1-trillion-dollar-question-can-afford-fly-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/uncategorised\/1-trillion-dollar-question-can-afford-fly-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"The $1 trillion dollar question: who can afford to fly the F-35?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force is reportedly considering cancelling orders for as many as 590 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets because the <a href=\"http:\/\/defence.nridigital.com\/global_defence_technology_jul18\/the_1_trillion_question_is_the_f35_project_too_big_to_fail\">aircraft is proving too expensive to operate and maintain<\/a>. Julian Turner reports on the controversy and whether ongoing cost issues will affect purchase commitments.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force is reportedly considering cancelling orders for as many as 590 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets because the aircraft is proving too expensive to operate and maintain. Julian Turner reports on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9084,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/9084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}