{"id":324069,"date":"2025-08-07T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324069\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:27:13","slug":"spain-scraps-plans-to-buy-f-35-fighter-jets-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324069\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain scraps plans to buy F-35 fighter jets \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s decision would be a major setback for planemaker Lockheed Martin, as Madrid <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/politica\/2017\/06\/04\/actualidad\/1496587476_818546.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued<\/a> a non-binding request for information on the F-35 in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s 2023 budget included an initial allocation of \u20ac6.25 billion to replace navy and air force aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish navy plans to decommission its Harrier AV8B fighters by 2030 and has expressed interest in replacing them with naval version F-35B models, already purchased by the United States and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The air force also considered the F-35A model as a temporary solution to replace its McDonnell Douglas F\/A-18 Hornets while awaiting the FCAS.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid\u2019s move could further heat up tensions between Spain and the United States, as Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-pedro-sanchez-mark-rutte-the-hague-spending-deal-under-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is a vocal critic<\/a> of NATO\u2019s new defense spending goal of 5 percent of GDP, pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s decision would be a major setback for planemaker Lockheed Martin, as Madrid issued a non-binding request for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[473,7057,32,2000,299,7058,2597,98281,5338,104,47982,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-324069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-defense-budgets","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-defense","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-military-aviation","16":"tag-pedro-sanchez","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-spanish-politics","19":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114985123439472810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}