{"id":40168,"date":"2025-04-29T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/trump-announces-new-serious-power-fighter-jets-for-michigan-guard-base-to-replace-aging-a-10s\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:00:21","slug":"trump-announces-new-serious-power-fighter-jets-for-michigan-guard-base-to-replace-aging-a-10s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/trump-announces-new-serious-power-fighter-jets-for-michigan-guard-base-to-replace-aging-a-10s\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces new &#8216;serious power&#8217; fighter jets for Michigan Guard base to replace aging A-10s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> unveiled new plans Tuesday to swap out the retiring A-10 Warthog aircraft based out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan with 21 brand-new F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump shared details of the new fighter jet mission during a speech to National Guardsmen at the Michigan base for an event commemorating his 100th day in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fresh off the line. That means they are brand new,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve never been anywhere. This is where they&#8217;re going to be for a long time. And I saw one of them, flew over my head, and I said, \u2018What the hell is that?\u2019 That plane has serious power. So this is the best there is anywhere in the world, the F-15EX Eagle II. This will keep Selfridge at the cutting edge of Northern American air power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump unveiled new plans Tuesday to swap out the retiring A-10 Warthog aircraft based out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan with 21 brand-new F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets.\u00a0 Trump shared details of the new fighter jet mission during a speech to National Guardsmen at the Michigan base for an event &#8230; <a title=\"Trump announces new &#8216;serious power&#8217; fighter jets for Michigan Guard base to replace aging A-10s\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/trump-announces-new-serious-power-fighter-jets-for-michigan-guard-base-to-replace-aging-a-10s\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump announces new &#8216;serious power&#8217; fighter jets for Michigan Guard base to replace aging A-10s\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}