{"id":35629,"date":"2025-11-18T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35629"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:39:17","slug":"ukraine-to-get-up-to-100-french-made-rafale-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ukraine-to-get-up-to-100-french-made-rafale-fighter-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to get up to 100 French-made Rafale fighter jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ukraine will get up to 100 of France&#8217;s Rafale F4 fighter jets as well as advanced air defence systems in a major deal to boost Kyiv&#8217;s ability to protect itself against deadly Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the move as &#8220;historic&#8221;, after signing the letter of intent with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at an air base near Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Deliveries of the Rafale F4&#8217;s are planned to be completed by 2035, while the joint production of interceptor drones is starting this year.<\/p>\n<p>Financial details are yet to be worked out, but reports say France plans to attract EU financing and also access frozen Russian assets &#8211; a controversial move that has split the 27-member bloc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a strategic agreement which will last for 10 years starting from the next year,&#8221; Zelensky said at a joint briefing with Macron on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine would also get &#8220;very strong French radars&#8221;, eight air defence systems and other advanced weaponry, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky stressed that using such advanced systems &#8220;means protecting someone&#8217;s life&#8230; this is very important&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine will get up to 100 of France&#8217;s Rafale F4 fighter jets as well as advanced air defence systems in a major deal to boost Kyiv&#8217;s ability to protect itself against deadly Russian attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the move as &#8220;historic&#8221;, after signing the letter of intent with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35632,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions\/35632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}