{"id":195545,"date":"2008-07-01T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/01\/more-allegations-that-dutch-jsf-competition-is-a-fig-leaf\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T22:20:00","slug":"more-allegations-that-dutch-jsf-competition-is-a-fig-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/01\/more-allegations-that-dutch-jsf-competition-is-a-fig-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"More Allegations that Dutch JSF Competition is a Fig Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/binnenland\/article1148023.ece\/Besluit_voor_JSF_is_allang_genomen_\">\u2018Besluit voor JSF is allang genomen\u2019<\/a>, or you can read the English translation <a href=\"http:\/\/64.233.179.104\/translate_c?hl=en&amp;sl=nl&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/binnenland\/article1148023.ece\/Besluit_voor_JSF_is_allang_genomen_\">here<\/a>.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>While the dutch have attempted to get Eurofighter, Dassault, and SAAB to bid in competition, the problem has always been that they are currently throwing a lot of money at the F-35 JSF that won&#8217;t be coming back to them if they buy another aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve sunk $800 million into this, and unless costs spiral completely out of control, I&#8217;d put that at 45%, they are stuck with the plane.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I don&#8217;t speak a word of Dutch. I read a synopsis and used Google to translate the original.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Besluit voor JSF is allang genomen\u2019, or you can read the English translation here.* While the dutch have attempted to get Eurofighter, Dassault, and SAAB to bid in competition, the problem has always been that they are currently throwing a lot of money at the F-35 JSF that won&#8217;t be coming back to them if &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-195545","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\/195545"}],"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=195545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}