{"id":284081,"date":"2016-12-12T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-getting-first-batch-of-f-35-stealth-jets-from-us\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:41:56","slug":"israel-getting-first-batch-of-f-35-stealth-jets-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-getting-first-batch-of-f-35-stealth-jets-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel getting first batch of F-35 stealth jets from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The first fleet of Lockheed Martin\u2019s F-35 stealth fighter jets has been delivered to Israel and is expected to land in the occupied Palestinian lands on Monday afternoon, the Pentagon says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the Pentagon, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was in Israel to address a welcoming ceremony at Nevatim Air Force Base near Beersheba, where two Lightning II fifth generation fighters were expected to touch down.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Military Affairs\u00a0Avigdor Lieberman, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrival of the aircraft highlights the close defense cooperation between the US and Israel,\u201d the Pentagon added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has ordered up to 50 F-35s. The aircraft, dubbed \u201cAdir\u201d or \u201cMighty,\u201d would replace the F-16 Fighting Falcon, a 1970-era fighter jet which is the Israeli air force\u2019s main weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the six Israeli pilots trained in the US would take over the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/12\/497520\/US-F35-Israel-Liberman-Carter-Netanyahu-Gilmore\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first fleet of Lockheed Martin\u2019s F-35 stealth fighter jets has been delivered to Israel and is expected to land in the occupied Palestinian lands on Monday afternoon, the Pentagon says. According to a statement by the Pentagon, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was in Israel to address a welcoming ceremony at Nevatim Air Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}