{"id":1880,"date":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","slug":"netherlands-transfers-18-f-16-fighter-jets-to-european-training-center-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands transfers 18 F-16 fighter jets to European training center in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 18 F-16 fighter jets allocated by the Netherlands to the European F-16 Training Centre in Romania, of the 42 aircraft made redundant after the new F-35 fleet was completely received, are arriving in Eastern Romania at Fetesti, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economica.net\/18-avioane-f-16-ajung-in-romania-dupa-ce-olanda-a-pus-oficial-la-pamant-toata-flota-sa_776551.html?mc_cid=62eaedc66c&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economica.net<\/a> reported. The rest of the 24 aircraft are being sent to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Netherlands intended to sell its last F-16s to the American company Draken International, which provides security and defense services, but the war in Ukraine changed its plans.<\/p>\n<p>The European F-16 Training Center in Romania, operating in the 86 Fete\u0219ti Air Base, was inaugurated in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The European F-16 Training Center will play a vital role in training Romanian pilots to operate these high-performance aircraft. Through this ambitious initiative, we aim not only to train a significant number of pilots but also to obtain new qualifications for those who already operate F-16 aircraft in Romania,&#8221; said the Romanian minister of defense on that occasion.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivan Cholakov\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18 F-16 fighter jets allocated by the Netherlands to the European F-16 Training Centre in Romania, of the 42 aircraft made redundant after the new F-35 fleet was completely received, are arriving in Eastern Romania at Fetesti, Economica.net reported. The rest of the 24 aircraft are being sent to Ukraine. Initially, the Netherlands intended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}