Il CEO di Saab conferma i colloqui con Ottawa, Bombardier per la produzione di aerei da caccia Gripen

Well done, Saab. Start making cars again while you’re at it.

This is a really odd article.

Having 2 very different fighter jets, is very very very costly. Very few countries do this, for obvious reasons.

US could at any time block sweden from selling the jet, since they own the engine and like 30% of the rest of the jet when it comes to parts.

They claim Gripen is cheaper, but last estimate I saw, it was almost twice the price of the F-35 (brazil deal), and you wont get your pilots educated at the largest and probably best fighter pilot school in the world.

(as always happens in these gripen threads, some swede will show up claiming its super cheap to run Gripen, even tho the Norwegian, Finnish and Swiss air force all claimed it to be on par with other Gen 4 jets, if you are going to bring up the same numbers Janes (military publication) wrote about, WHILE Saab was paying them for a huge ad campaign, please dont, no one believes them, I would like to see a specified cost per hour thing tho, from the Swedish air force, but you wont find it, because it doesnt show Gripen in a good light, more than likely.)

Saab is just looking for more customers and is hoping Canadian tax payers will invest likely billions to help them expand their market (or any other country willing to pony up big bucks). The comment that Sweden is too small to build the jets is strange – I think they mean that they do not have the funds to invest and need some other party to take on the risk. This is a bad deal for Canada and will be like the other 100s of pie in the sky deals that the Canadian government invests in.

I love the designs of the grippen fighters, between them and the kai they make great fighters