{"id":194270,"date":"2008-10-11T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/11\/dassault-gets-to-pitch-rafale-to-the-swiss\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T12:53:00","slug":"dassault-gets-to-pitch-rafale-to-the-swiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/11\/dassault-gets-to-pitch-rafale-to-the-swiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Dassault Gets to Pitch Rafale to the Swiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth be told, I think that it&#8217;s <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%3Ac0bb8100-95c6-41cc-bcf9-0a68c940be85\">too much plane for an F-5 replacement<\/a>, though if the Swiss get a good deal out of French desperation for an export sale, more power to them.<\/p>\n<p>Same applies to the Eurofighter Typhoon, only more so, though, since the Swiss already operate F\/A-18 Hornets, the jump to the Super Bug would not be so big.<\/p>\n<p>My money though, is still on the Gripen, it&#8217;s a lot cheaper all along the life cycle, and the Swiss don&#8217;t really need the additional range of the larger aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth be told, I think that it&#8217;s too much plane for an F-5 replacement, though if the Swiss get a good deal out of French desperation for an export sale, more power to them. Same applies to the Eurofighter Typhoon, only more so, though, since the Swiss already operate F\/A-18 Hornets, the jump to 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":[1007,1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194270","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\/194270"}],"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=194270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}