{"id":188553,"date":"2010-09-04T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/04\/israeli-mod-approves-jsf-buy\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:34:00","slug":"israeli-mod-approves-jsf-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/04\/israeli-mod-approves-jsf-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli MoD Approves JSF Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A1d9bcd1c-72bf-4975-a744-7f2562207d00\">approved a purchase of 20 F-35 fighters<\/a>, though the report of a price of &#8220;only&#8221; $96 million a copy, is clearly a blivit,<sup>*<\/sup> as evidenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/news\/defense-minister-barak-approves-purchase-of-20-f-35-fighters-for-around-2-75-billion-1.308235\">this report of that 20 JSFs will cost about $2.75 billion<\/a>, which gives a price of $137.5 million each, which is closer, but probably still less than, the cost of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, while the MoD has approved, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/139336\">significant resistance from the full cabinet<\/a>, with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz expressing significant concerns about Defense Minister Ehud Barak\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that both Lockheed Martin and the DoD were desperate to get this sale, which explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE67T2JX20100830\">Israel Aerospace Industries got a contract to build 800 wingsets for the stealthy fighter<\/a>, which comes close to Israel being paid to take the plane.<\/p>\n<p>They want a stamp of approval from a country that is not already a partner in the F-35 consortium, and Israel gives them more market credibility than almost any other non NATO nation.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">10 pounds of sh%$ in a 5 pound bag.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has approved a purchase of 20 F-35 fighters, though the report of a price of &#8220;only&#8221; $96 million a copy, is clearly a blivit,* as evidenced by this report of that 20 JSFs will cost about $2.75 billion, which gives a price of $137.5 million each, which is closer, but probably &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1038,1008,1159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}