{"id":213315,"date":"2026-07-19T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/213315\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:40:07","slug":"idf-misses-out-on-12-us-apache-helicopters-due-to-budget-authorization-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/213315\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF misses out on 12 US Apache helicopters due to budget authorization delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is despite pressure from the IDF Chief of Staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-902705\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eyal Zamir<\/a>, and flexibility on behalf of the US Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF was supposed to submit a detailed Letter of Request to the US Department of Defense based on an approved budget by the Finance Ministry, authorizing a reservation of the helicopters as they were being produced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Initial delays by the IDF canceled the original production date, which was extended twice before the ultimate deadline passed.<\/p>\n<p>Military sources clarified that several discussions were held on the matter, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/banking-and-finance\/article-900952\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Ministry<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/banking-and-finance\/article-900952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a>committed to locating budget sources, but time ran out due to &#8220;budget games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This would have been the first stage of a deal involving about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-885137\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 Apache helicopters<\/a>, which are intended to help prevent future ground invasion scenarios at the country&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is despite pressure from the IDF Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, and flexibility on behalf of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[13178,1046,7243,423,37,61981,10021],"class_list":["post-213315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-apache-helicopter","tag-eyal-zamir","tag-helicopter","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israeli-military-chief","tag-us-department-of-defense"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}