{"id":15406,"date":"2026-05-13T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:58:15","slug":"ukraine-fighter-jet-plans-accelerate-with-sweden-and-belgian-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/15406\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine fighter jet plans accelerate with Sweden and Belgian updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s growing need for combat aircraft could soon see a resolution as both Sweden and Belgium have announced plans to speed up delivery timelines or cement orders of new aircraft to the country. <\/p>\n<p>Belgian defence minister Theo Francken said that Belgium plans to deliver 53 F-16s to Ukraine by 2029, with most of the deliveries taking place in 2029. According to the new plans, which were first disclosed by Belgian media outlet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.levif.be\/belgique\/defense\/theo-francken-envisage-de-livrer-53-f-16-a-l-ukraine-dici-2029-voici-le-planning-inedit-info-le-vif\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Vif<\/a>, seven F-16s will be sold in 2026, five in 2027, 14 in 2028 and the rest in 2029. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, Belgium had publicly committed 30 aircraft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s growing need for combat aircraft could soon see a resolution as both Sweden and Belgium have announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1811,10288,10287,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-15406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-f-16","10":"tag-gripen-e","11":"tag-saab","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116566209567550495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}