{"id":347625,"date":"2020-04-21T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T04:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347625"},"modified":"2020-04-21T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T04:28:24","slug":"germany-plans-to-buy-airbus-and-boeing-fighter-jets-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germany-plans-to-buy-airbus-and-boeing-fighter-jets-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany plans to buy Airbus and Boeing fighter jets, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany confirmed Monday it aims to replace its ageing fleet of Tornado fighter-bombers with aircraft from both European manufacturer Airbus and Boeing. <\/p>\n<p>Berlin is eager to balance European and American alliances via its military aircraft-buying scheme, but the decision to move ahead with the US purchases has angered some politicians who allege a lack of transparency. <\/p>\n<p>An official decision on the procurement plan will be sent to parliament&#8217;s defence committee &#8220;in the coming days,&#8221; defence ministry spokesman Arne Collatz-Johannsen said in Berlin. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fewer than a third&#8221; of the new aircraft would be American models, with the majority made up of European products, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany confirmed Monday it aims to replace its ageing fleet of Tornado fighter-bombers with aircraft from both European manufacturer Airbus and Boeing. Berlin is eager to balance European and American alliances via its military aircraft-buying scheme, but the decision to move ahead with the US purchases has angered some politicians who allege a lack of transparency. An official decision on the procurement plan will be sent to parliament&#8217;s defence committee &#8220;in the coming days,&#8221; defence ministry spokesman Arne Collatz-Johannsen said in Berlin. &#8220;Fewer than a third&#8221; of the new aircraft would be American models, with the majority made up of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}