{"id":195492,"date":"2008-07-05T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/05\/dutch-to-consider-gripen-ng-for-f-16-replacement\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T12:29:00","slug":"dutch-to-consider-gripen-ng-for-f-16-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/05\/dutch-to-consider-gripen-ng-for-f-16-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch to consider Gripen NG for F-16 replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Kabuki dance that is the Dutch F-16 replacement selection has added a few new steps, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/03\/225028\/dutch-to-consider-gripen-ng-for-f-16-replacement.html\">with them adding the Gripen NG into the mix<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/DUTCH07028.xml&amp;headline=Dutch%20Refuse%20To%20Consider%20Super%20Hornet&amp;channel=defense\">deselecting the Super-Hornet and Raptor<\/a> for being too large and to expensive respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, if I were working for Eurofighter, Dassault, or SAAB, I wouldn&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch have already sunk around &euro;550 million into the F-35 JSF, and I think that pretty much locks them into two alternatives, the JSF, and upgrading its existing F-16s.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I was wrong on the tanker deal, so YMMV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Kabuki dance that is the Dutch F-16 replacement selection has added a few new steps, with them adding the Gripen NG into the mix and deselecting the Super-Hornet and Raptor for being too large and to expensive respectively. Honestly, if I were working for Eurofighter, Dassault, or SAAB, I wouldn&#8217;t bother. The Dutch &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195492"}],"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=195492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}