{"id":191819,"date":"2009-06-20T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/20\/lockheed-concerned-that-israel-will-terminate-f-35\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T19:52:00","slug":"lockheed-concerned-that-israel-will-terminate-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/20\/lockheed-concerned-that-israel-will-terminate-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Concerned That Israel Will Terminate F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s early order of the JSF has provided a lot of credibility to the program, but concerns about the escalating  costs, and the inflexibility, the plane is a closed platform to which the Israelis cannot add their own systems,is causing some cold feet inside the IDF\/AF.<\/p>\n<p>By way of hand holding, Lockheed has proposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/02\/327228\/lockheed-makes-f-35-assembly-offer-to-israel.html\"> offered to do final assembly in Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While there has been a lot of effort to portray this aircraft as a colossus striding across the world military jet fighter market, it&#8217;s position actually seems precarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s early order of the JSF has provided a lot of credibility to the program, but concerns about the escalating costs, and the inflexibility, the plane is a closed platform to which the Israelis cannot add their own systems,is causing some cold feet inside the IDF\/AF. By way of hand holding, Lockheed has proposed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191819"}],"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=191819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}