{"id":195884,"date":"2008-06-08T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/italy-to-sign-on-dotted-line-for-jsf\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T11:41:00","slug":"italy-to-sign-on-dotted-line-for-jsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/08\/italy-to-sign-on-dotted-line-for-jsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy to Sign on Dotted Line for JSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-06-02&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/06\/02\/AW_06_02_2008_p28-55981.xml&amp;headline=Rome+Readies+Initial+JSF+Purchase\">Italy will sign a contract for 2 F-35s this month<\/a> (<em>Paid Subscription Required<\/em>) as a part of the, &#8220;initial operational test and evaluation phases of the JSF program&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise.  Italy has always been on board, though some questions remain, specifically it&#8217;s mix between conventional and STOVL variants, and whether final checkout prior to delivery will be done in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Italy will sign a contract for 2 F-35s this month (Paid Subscription Required) as a part of the, &#8220;initial operational test and evaluation phases of the JSF program&#8221;. This is no surprise. Italy has always been on board, though some questions remain, specifically it&#8217;s mix between conventional and STOVL variants, and whether &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-195884","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\/195884"}],"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=195884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}