{"id":550199,"date":"2023-01-27T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T04:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550199"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T05:52:21","slug":"washington-mulls-f-16-aircraft-production-boost-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/washington-mulls-f-16-aircraft-production-boost-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington mulls F-16 aircraft production boost for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After controversially deciding to send main battle tanks to Ukraine to boost its embattled military, the US is considering ramping up production of F-16 fighters to send to Ukraine, says a report in the Financial Times (FT).<\/p>\n<p>A news report in FT on Thursday quotes Frank St John, the chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin, which builds the F-16, as saying that there was \u201ca lot of conversation about third party transfers of F-16s\u201d, which implies that countries would re-export American aircraft that they have to boost Ukraine\u2019s ability to defend its airspace against Russian fighters.<\/p>\n<p>St John stated that Lockheed Martin would be \u201cramping production of F-16s in Greenville (South Carolina)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After controversially deciding to send main battle tanks to Ukraine to boost its embattled military, the US is considering ramping up production of F-16 fighters to send to Ukraine, says a report in the Financial Times (FT). A news report in FT on Thursday quotes Frank St John, the chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin, which builds the F-16, as saying that there was \u201ca lot of conversation about third party transfers of F-16s\u201d, which implies that countries would re-export American aircraft that they have to boost Ukraine\u2019s ability to defend its airspace against Russian fighters. St John stated that [&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-550199","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\/550199","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=550199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}