{"id":190790,"date":"2009-10-24T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/denmark-defers-fighter-choice\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:34:00","slug":"denmark-defers-fighter-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/24\/denmark-defers-fighter-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark Defers Fighter Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aee656d5a-2d8c-4a73-a07b-bac4dbc22d6e\">deferring by a decision at least a year on its choice for a new fighter<\/a> to replace its F16 fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will be some point in 2010, at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>Technicality, it is  a competition between the F-35, F\/A-18 E\/F, and the Gripen, but until now, it has generally been assumed that the JSF had the inside track.<\/p>\n<p>I think that any delay in orders will work against the JSF, as it is patently clear that the cost of the aircraft will continue to escalate, making selection of the F-35 that much more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it appears that they are talking about downsizing their fighter fleet from 48 to somewhere in the 25-35 range.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.dk\/indland\/article1858370.ece\">original article<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?prev=hp&amp;hl=en&amp;js=y&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fjp.dk%2Findland%2Farticle1858370.ece&amp;sl=da&amp;tl=en&amp;history_state0=\">Google translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark is now deferring by a decision at least a year on its choice for a new fighter to replace its F16 fleet. The decision will be some point in 2010, at the earliest. Technicality, it is a competition between the F-35, F\/A-18 E\/F, and the Gripen, but until now, it has generally been assumed &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-190790","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\/190790"}],"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=190790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}