{"id":196077,"date":"2008-05-25T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/25\/french-defense-procurement-faces-draconian-cuts\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T16:13:00","slug":"french-defense-procurement-faces-draconian-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/25\/french-defense-procurement-faces-draconian-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"French Defense Procurement Faces Draconian Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It currently looks like France will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Afcb5ef53-222c-4a60-9c35-e35a8ef66777\">engaging in large wholesale cuts in its defense procurement<\/a>, with the, &#8220;Rafale (from 294 to 200), a second aircraft carrier (PA2) (cancellation), and FREMM multimission frigates (17 to 12)&#8221;, being target for significant cuts.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, someone needs to recognize that new weapons systems have become too damn expensive, with costs outpacing the ability to pay for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It currently looks like France will be engaging in large wholesale cuts in its defense procurement, with the, &#8220;Rafale (from 294 to 200), a second aircraft carrier (PA2) (cancellation), and FREMM multimission frigates (17 to 12)&#8221;, being target for significant cuts. At its core, someone needs to recognize that new weapons systems have become too &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196077"}],"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=196077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}