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"And Gripen was throughly trounced, in all categories, by the *legacy* Hornet in the Swiss evaluations.
So badly trounced in fact that it literally sent Saab back to the drawing board.
Gripen is a hangar queen whose availability rates are a national scandal in Sweden. Virtually every deal Gripen has won has been wreathed in scandal and corruption; scandal cost Gripen NG a win in Switzerland.
And the wheels are about to come off figuratively on the Brazilian deal as they have literally on a few Hungarian Gripens recently. "
Well said. The Gripen is a 8/10 scale Swedish F-16 whole biggest export success to date, South Africa, was due to bribery.
The Brazilian deal may go under to lack of funds from Brazil, and even if it does, I doubt Brazil will be able to afford more than 72 Gripens total.
Add to the fact that Sweden won't sell to a lot of nations whose domestic policy they don't like and the Gripen becomes and also ran.
Jul 15, 2015, 12:10:11 AM
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