Fonti: gli Stati Uniti vogliono porre il veto all’acquisto colombiano di aerei Gripen
https://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/a/dR0Ogq/uppgifter-usa-vill-stoppa-gripenaffar
di Caspica
Fonti: gli Stati Uniti vogliono porre il veto all’acquisto colombiano di aerei Gripen
https://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/a/dR0Ogq/uppgifter-usa-vill-stoppa-gripenaffar
di Caspica
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EU needs to cut off US military from their supply chains completely
United States sucks and sabotages their allies, more at 8.
Insane how much trust and respect I lost with the U.S. Take your F35s up your ass
Since when does the US have Veto power over Colombia!?
Unfortunately Gripen uses a lot of american components and engine.
How the fuck can they veto another nation’s purchase
discusting as always
Learn from this Europe.
You can source engines outside of the US. Do so.
“According to Infodefensa, the American action is based on dissatisfaction with the Colombian procurement. They want to get Colombia to choose the American F-16 aircraft from Lockheed Martin instead.”
Whenever I think Trump reached rock bottom, he gets a shovel and digs. This is basically saying that Europe don’t just need to stop buying US arms, but to also cancel industrial cooperation and to basically start purging any American-made components.
Guess Sweden has to talk to Rolls-Royce or someone similar and try to replace the engine.
Death of the US arms industry.
Another “told you so” moment for France.
Seems like USA doesn’t want its components to be used in anything anymore.
Also note, this is again exactly what I would do if I was a Russian spy in power in the US. They are actively trying to destroy everything that makes the US a superpower.
France builds jet engines and the UK. Japan?
According to this news they also plan on vetoing a possible sale to Peru. [https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/02/25/us-preparing-veto-on-gripen-sale-to-colombia-is-peru-next/](https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/02/25/us-preparing-veto-on-gripen-sale-to-colombia-is-peru-next/)
Pero might consider buying Rafales (since it’s not vulnerable to US veto) or the south-korean KF-21 instead.
I’m sure they do.
They want us to use their rigged shit that they can deactivate whenever they feel like it.
Mad cunts.
Well, RIP to any further US military contracts in EU. If they do this it’s all over. Might be over regardless, but this would be the final nail.
This is the reason why I think Europe should just start buying Rafales. I would not be surprised if the USA didn’t start vetoing Sweden buying from SAAB too.
Can gripen take European engine (either Typhoon or Rafale) and European radar?
Croatia wanted to buy F-16’s from Israel but that too was blocked by the US.
After like three years of deliberation the deal fell through, so in the end they just bought Rafales.
Uk, Italy and Japan need to speed up the tempest program and definitely think about a US component free design. BAE, Mitsubishi and Leonardo can get this done.
As far as i got it has already been veto, it has been more than three weeks with a [french article](https://www.opex360.com/2025/02/04/la-colombie-a-notifie-un-contrat-a-lisraelien-iai-pour-garder-ses-derniers-avions-de-combat-kfir-jusquen-2026/) reporting that colombia was gonna ask Israel to repair their kfir (not proper wording) despite them still not being quite friendly with each other, and a [colombian one](https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mostrar/5151957/urgente-colombia-estados-unidos-impone-veto-suministro-servicios-sistemas-defensa-colombia) was linked in the comment talking about the veto.
Otherwise it was expected, the remaining south american countries that are seeing for replacing their airforce will most likely go for rafale as even kf-21 for peru fall in the same problem + is still a protype and the offer to manufacture them in peru is absolutely not credible.
The only real unknown is if the veto will be applied to the philippines too as it’s an american ally.
It just show again that France was right doing their plane that way, there is nothing to be angry of otherwise it was always known for Sweden as far as i know/ they had time to switch components for the gripen e but did not chose to do so.
Veto becuase the competition didn’t go the way US wanted? Pretty safe bet the next Swedish fighter jet won’t have an American engine.
Just about every day lately, I find myself saying, “Huh, looks like France was right all along”.
Keep shining the light France, maybe one day the rest of the EU will wake up.
We need strategic independence in each and every aspect. Treat US as China, with cutesy but keep at distance.
This is just another example of why nobody should buy any US made military products.
Guess what! Fark Orf!
It seems unjust that the US allows SAAB to license parts to use in an aircraft, and can then use the fact that parts are licensed to prevent sales. They have been paid for the license. That should be enough.
Then I would like us to veto the finnish buy of 64 F35s from the USA. Now since USA apparently has abandoned all logic and reason and holdning perpetrators/dictators to account.
The French geopolitical decision making has been on point with regard to the US.
We need a strong Europe but, on the other hand, having multiple nations in Europe with different politics is helping to provide some resiliency.
“Dear America: Gi f”” yourself. Yours, sincerely, Columbia. (Germany, France, EU etc.)”
I would be a mess in politics. But honestly: Why is nobody telling those US-Mobsters and Plutocrats to f** themselves?
A politics of blackmailing other countries is not politics. It’s a great way to become the most despised country after NK.
Interesting. The F35 has plenty of European components, do we get to veto F35 sales too?
Sorry Trump, this was the world you wanted when you broke up the trans-atlantic alliance.
Well US put veto on f16 from Israel, then we went(Croatia) with rafale. 12 birds in total.
Is Colombia American?
Is the Gripen American?
I don’t get it…
Wait for countries who bought F35 being allowed or not to use them depending of US interests. Especially if conflict with Russia.
How is it possible we are led by so many idiots that cannot foresee further than 2 months ahead.
And yet people here downvoyed every people claimi g thzy can do way worst with the F35 and the bids won by f35 werent only about the planes (nor was its prize true) when europeans bindly went for it when other option were more adequat for their needs (switzerland bying a slow mow manoeuvrable with low avaibiloty plane to do….air policing)
CDG was the Carl Sagan of geopolitics…