{"id":194479,"date":"2008-09-20T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/i-still-think-that-the-dutch-are-sandbagging-saab-over-their-f-16-repladement\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T13:37:00","slug":"i-still-think-that-the-dutch-are-sandbagging-saab-over-their-f-16-repladement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/20\/i-still-think-that-the-dutch-are-sandbagging-saab-over-their-f-16-repladement\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Think that the Dutch are Sandbagging SAAB over their F-16 Repladement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But they are certainly making it look like a real competition.  The Swedes needed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/16\/316044\/saab-gets-extra-time-to-complete-dutch-fighter-questionnaire.html\">extra time to get approvals for data release from the US<\/a>, and the Dutch MoD extended the deadline on the bid to 30 September.<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still<\/span> do not believe that the Dutch are serious about considering an alternative to the Lockheed-Martin JSF, they simply have invested too much time and effort, but they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">are<\/span> doing their best to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">look<\/span> fair about the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But they are certainly making it look like a real competition. The Swedes needed extra time to get approvals for data release from the US, and the Dutch MoD extended the deadline on the bid to 30 September. I still do not believe that the Dutch are serious about considering an alternative to the Lockheed-Martin &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-194479","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\/194479"}],"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=194479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}