{"id":547862,"date":"2022-03-09T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:06:12","slug":"chasing-the-middle-east-top-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/09\/chasing-the-middle-east-top-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Middle East Top Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last decade, the Middle East has become the happy hunting ground for Fourth Plus-generation fighter aircraft manufacturers. It began in 2007 when Saudi Arabia signed a $5.9 billion (\u00a34.4 billion) contract with BAE Systems for 72 Eurofighter Typhoons. They are operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Wing 2 at King Fahad [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/2022\/03\/chasing-the-middle-east-top-guns\/\">Chasing the Middle East Top Guns<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/\">Asian Military Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/2022\/03\/chasing-the-middle-east-top-guns\/\">Asian Military Review<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last decade, the Middle East has become the happy hunting ground for Fourth Plus-generation fighter aircraft manufacturers. It began in 2007 when Saudi Arabia signed a $5.9 billion (\u00a34.4 billion) contract with BAE Systems for 72 Eurofighter Typh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39846,2204,3460,1720,45029,2994,82,45030,44976,45031,15213,7421,2996,749,34025,45032,45033,40700,15845,84,38745,2720],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547863,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547862\/revisions\/547863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}