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Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab floats Gripen production hub in Canada, if Ottawa were willing (www.defensenews.com)
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/46943117

Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab has proposed that a hypothetical Gripen production line in Canada would be large enough to also serve export customers besides making planes for the Canadian Air Force.

The statement is the latest effort by Saab in sweetening the pot for Canada to give the Swedish company a slice of its fighter jet business.

โ€œWe need to ramp up our [fighter jet] production capabilities, to a level where itโ€™s not only for Canada โ€“ we do see that [the potential line] will produce for export as well,โ€ Mikael Franzรฉn, chief marketing officer for the Gripen at Saab, told reporters at the Singapore Airshow here.

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[โ€“] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the difference. Your arms supplier can't cut you off if you make parts locally.

Now if only there was an engine that was not made in the US that fits the Gripen?

[โ€“] thfi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now if only there was an engine that was not made in the US that fits the Gripen?

When it was announced a few months back that Ukraine may buy 100+ Gripen, I expected they would state that Motor Sich would build the engine, SAAB everything else.

[โ€“] Kjell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a huge job to replace the engine of a fighter jet, they will not use another engine until they replace Gripen with the next generation.

[โ€“] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Am am sure there is a internal program at Rolls Roycle to design such an engine for rapid development if needed. Probably for the F16 engine also.