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Marauder said...

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.

"LRIP of 200+ faulty aircraft"

No more or less faulty that the F-15A, F-16A, Super Hornet Block I and other ridiculously horrible offers.

Jul 4, 2015, 5:58:33 PM

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