{"id":192532,"date":"2009-03-21T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/21\/potential-rafale-sale-to-libya\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:27:00","slug":"potential-rafale-sale-to-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/21\/potential-rafale-sale-to-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential  Rafale Sale to Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Khaddafi has <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3997328&amp;c=EUR&amp;s=AIR\">signed a deal for 6 months exclusive negotiations for the Rafale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This purchase actually makes sense for Libya, because they have a reasonable chance of being able to continue to operate the aircraft even in the face of an embargo by the US, such as the sort that grounded the Venezuelan F-16s, and the competitors, the Eurofighter Typhoon, and SAAB Gripen, both have significantly more US content.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the first foreign sale of the Rafale, and I&#8217;m sure that the French foreign ministry and Dassault are both drooling at the prospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes sense. Khaddafi has signed a deal for 6 months exclusive negotiations for the Rafale. This purchase actually makes sense for Libya, because they have a reasonable chance of being able to continue to operate the aircraft even in the face of an embargo by the US, such as the sort that grounded the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192532"}],"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=192532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}