{"id":195881,"date":"2008-06-08T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/dutch-to-participate-in-initial-operational-test-and-evaluation-iote-for-f-35\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T12:33:00","slug":"dutch-to-participate-in-initial-operational-test-and-evaluation-iote-for-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/dutch-to-participate-in-initial-operational-test-and-evaluation-iote-for-f-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch to Participate in Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&#038;E) for F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the parliament has placed conditions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/02\/224363\/dutch-to-join-f-35-testing.html\">including a meaningful competition with other fighters<\/a>, with the Gripen N being the primary competitor, I see this as the nail in the coffin for the prospect of buying another fighter&#8230;at least until they find that the F-35 is 2.5x more expensive than promised.<\/p>\n<p>They have made a 10% down payment (that likely will be closer to (3-5%) for two JSFs to use in IOT&#038;E, and once that happens, I see the Dutch AF as committed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the parliament has placed conditions, including a meaningful competition with other fighters, with the Gripen N being the primary competitor, I see this as the nail in the coffin for the prospect of buying another fighter&#8230;at least until they find that the F-35 is 2.5x more expensive than promised. They have made a 10% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195881"}],"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=195881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}