{"id":188714,"date":"2010-08-08T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/08\/dutch-defer-jsf-decision-again\/"},"modified":"2010-08-08T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T16:43:00","slug":"dutch-defer-jsf-decision-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/08\/dutch-defer-jsf-decision-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Defer JSF Decision Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like they might buy a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> test aircraft, in order to preserve some workshare for Dutch firms, but that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/archives\/2010\/08\/jsf_fighter_jet_order_now_unli.php\">it&#8217;s unlikely that they will sign a deal for a production run at this time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprising, they are undergoing austerity cuts to meet Euro zone budget guidelines, cutting, &#8220;education, healthcare and social security spending,&#8221; so why purchase an aircraft that costs (at least) 5 times as much as the F-15, and costs (at least) twice as much to operate?<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/ericpalmer.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/06\/dutch-f-35-decision-delayed-until-2014-2015\/\"> ELP Defens(c)e Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like they might buy a 2nd test aircraft, in order to preserve some workshare for Dutch firms, but that it&#8217;s unlikely that they will sign a deal for a production run at this time. Not surprising, they are undergoing austerity cuts to meet Euro zone budget guidelines, cutting, &#8220;education, healthcare and social security &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188714"}],"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=188714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}