{"id":778308,"date":"2026-02-21T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/778308\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:26:11","slug":"germany-seeks-more-f-35-jets-as-european-fighter-program-falters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/778308\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany seeks more F-35 jets as European fighter program falters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    BERLIN\/WASHINGTON \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Germany is considering ordering more U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets, two sources said, a move that would deepen Berlin&#8217;s reliance on American military technology \u200bas its joint next-generation fighter program with France falters.<\/p>\n<p>One source said Berlin was \u200cin talks \u200cthat could lead to the purchase of more than 35 additional \u200bjets. A second source did not specify the number. Both sources cautioned the outcome was still uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Germany purchased 35 of the aircraft, which are due to begin delivery \u2060later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN\/WASHINGTON \u2013 Germany is considering ordering more U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets, two sources said, a move that would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[473,2000,299,15060,12165,63523,1824,1017,38941],"class_list":["post-778308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-f-35","tag-fighter-jets","tag-gcap","tag-germany","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-military"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116106021020857681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778308","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=778308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}