{"id":812,"date":"2026-03-21T03:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=812"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:53:37","slug":"is-australia-buying-duds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/is-australia-buying-duds\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia Buying Duds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It looks like current generations of American aircraft aren&#8217;t as effective against modern air defences as the Americans seem to have had people believing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia is even more invested in these aircraft than Israel, and the ones in use there seem to be making news for &#8220;hard landings&#8221; when put to use against Iran. These reports are appearing in mainstream outlets now but there were already unconfirmed reports of these planes being downed a year or more ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia should have supported local industries instead of buying junk from overseas and getting drawn further into these conflicts as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like current generations of American aircraft aren&#8217;t as effective against modern air defences as the Americans seem to have had people believing. Australia is even more invested in these aircraft than Israel, and the ones in use there seem to be making news for &#8220;hard landings&#8221; when put to use against Iran. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}