{"id":196191,"date":"2008-05-18T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/18\/norway-protests-we-are-having-a-real-fighter-competition\/"},"modified":"2008-05-18T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T12:42:00","slug":"norway-protests-we-are-having-a-real-fighter-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/18\/norway-protests-we-are-having-a-real-fighter-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Protests:  We Are Having a Real Fighter Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The  Norwegian air force chief of staff Major General Stein Erik Nodeland <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%3Aeb253518-9b85-4a5e-859f-d3adeffbd708\">is now aggressively combating the idea that Norwas has already decided to buy the F-35 JSF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This perception is why Eurofighter pulled out of the bid about a year ago, leaving the improved Gripen as the only other competitor.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if one looks at the bid process objectively, there certainly are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">segements<\/span> of the Norwegian air defense establishment who have settled on the JSF, to the extent that they are <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%3A413ac5fe-26c6-49ae-8934-1bcebafbe12d\">using Lockheed-Martin F-35 powerpoint slides in their presentations<\/a>, though there are indications that the some members of Parliament are not amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian air force chief of staff Major General Stein Erik Nodeland is now aggressively combating the idea that Norwas has already decided to buy the F-35 JSF. This perception is why Eurofighter pulled out of the bid about a year ago, leaving the improved Gripen as the only other competitor. I think that 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-196191","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\/196191"}],"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=196191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}