"The Gripen E ensures that Gripen as a brand keeps going against the Rafale, Typhoon and F-35," said Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis.
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Sweden appears willing to meet India's demands for a sweeping transfer of technology, echoing a deal to sell 28 Gripen Es and 8 twin-seater Gripen Fs to Brazil.
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Speaking on the eve of a rollout of Saab's new Gripen E, ordered by Brazil and Sweden, Buskhe reaffirmed a target of 400 to 450 Gripen orders including more from Brazil.
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ST Gripen fighters, a deal worth around 47 billion crowns.
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In the previous tender, the Gripen jets had been favored.
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The Gripen E (Saab) The other options are less likely candidates.
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Lula's lawyers have said he had no role in the Gripen purchase.
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In 2015 it agreed to buy 36 Swedish Gripen fighter jets for $4.7bn.
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Sweden offered new Saab Gripen jets, while Italy proposed supplying second-hand Eurofighters.
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The other contenders are the Saab AB Gripen and the Eurofighter from Airbus.
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Saab and Embraer are partners in the development of the Gripen NG fighter.
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The Gripen, for example — "we're not even in the same class," Traven said.
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The Swedish government also has an interest; GKN makes engines for its successful Gripen fighter.
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Other bidders had included Sweden, with Saab's Gripen jets, and Italy, with second-hand Eurofighters.
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Sweden's Saab AB, one of the four remaining contenders, faces the same challenge with its Gripen jet.
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SAAB builds the Gripen fighter, which is in use in Sweden, South Africa and Hungary, among others.
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Finland's choice is also about the deal's impact on defense cooperation, which could favor Sweden's Jas Gripen.
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He announced his decision to step down as CEO of Saab, maker of the Gripen fighter jet, in August.
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In 2014, around 52% voted against a 3.5 billion franc plan to buy 22 Gripen fighter jets from Saab.
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Slovakia had been in talks with Gripen maker Saab for years, before Gajdos stalled discussions and invited other bidders.
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The Brazilian government announced late in 2013 that it had chosen the Gripen NG fighter jet produced by Saab.
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In 2014, around 52 percent voted against a 3.5 billion franc plan to buy 22 Gripen fighter jets from Saab.
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Chasing a Gripen E in an F-104C Starfighter and downing it is as satisfying as frying a perfect egg.
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Gripen, a Swedish fighter aircraft, performs at the opening ceremony of Aero India 2017 at Yelahanka air base in Bangalore.
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Hoke said it made no sense for European countries to use three different fighter jets - the Eurofighter, Rafale and Gripen.
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Sweden's Saab AB said on Friday it will offer the naval version of its Gripen fighter to the Indian navy.
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Sweden's Saab is the other contender to supply the Indian Air Force, offering to make its Gripen fighter in India.
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Peter Gajdos mentioned U.S. F-229 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin and Gripen jets made by Sweden's Saab as options.
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Potential options include Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, Saab's Gripen, Dassault's Rafale and Lockheed Martin's F-16 or the Eurofighter.
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The case centers on Brazil's purchase of Gripen fighter jets from Sweden's Saab in 2013, when Dilma Rousseff was in power.
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Besides Dassault and BAE, other suitors courting Malaysia are Russia's Sukhoi and Sweden's SAAB, which is selling its single engine Gripen.
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The latest Gripen is designed to carry more weapons further, and to track multiple threats using the latest type of radar.
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The Saab Gripen, a smaller one-engined fighter, is currently deployed by the air forces of nations like Sweden and Hungary.
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Potential suppliers include Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, Saab's Gripen, Dassault's Rafale and Lockheed Martin's F-16 or Eurofighter, the ministry said.
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"That will lead to a new situation, a new normal," he said at the Gripen plant in the southern Swedish city of Linkoping.
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Main contenders remain Swedish manufacturer Saab's Gripen jets, Portugal and the United States with secondhand F-16s and Italy with secondhand Eurofighter Typhoons.
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Rival contenders for the deal include the Saab Gripen combat jet, the Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin's F-16s, according to industry stakeholders.
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Saab said it was ready to not only produce its frontline Gripen fighter in India, but help build a local aviation industry base.
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Critics say the Gripen lacks the flexibility of twin-engined rivals or the same geopolitical support as U.S., French or pan-European alternatives.
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Saab said it would continue to invest in the older and cheaper Gripen C/D model to attract a different tier of buyers.
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Airbus's Eurofighter, Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, Dassault's Rafale, F-35As made by Lockheed Martin and Saab's Gripen E are in the running.
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The RAF Typhoons alternate Baltic air-policing duties with Spanish F/A-18 and Hungarian Gripen fighters based on Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania.
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Lockheed is competing with Boeing's F/A-18, Saab's Gripen, Dassault Aviation's Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon and a Russian aircraft for the air force order.
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Borissov's government re-launched the tender in July, after a parliament commission ruled that a previous process which favored the Gripen jets, should be reviewed.
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Lockheed is competing with Boeing's F/A-18, Saab's Gripen, Dassault Aviations Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon and a Russian aircraft for the air force order.
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Lofven, who is not suspected of any wrongdoing, lobbied for a Gripen deal when he was the head of the powerful trade union IF Metall.
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Lockheed has already picked India's Tata Advanced Systems as its local partner to produce F-16s that will compete for the contract with Saab's Gripen.
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But here's what I know: this footage recently posted of Saab's Gripen fighter has me desperate to see Maverick in the cockpit one more time.
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The project accelerates steps to shape the future of the European fighter industry and its three existing programs - the Eurofighter, France's Rafale and Sweden's Gripen.
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Saab, which produces the Gripen fighter jet and which has seen its share price drop 4% this year, said it had initiated a recruitment process.
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So imagine how these guys feel when their half-scale Saab Gripen, measuring 26-feet long and weighing over 220 pounds, simply disintegrated in mid-air.
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Voters in 2014 shot down plans to buy 22 Gripen E fighters made by Swedish company Saab AB. Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by Greg Mahlich
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Industry executives say the two projects could merge after Brexit, but Britain may also forge new alliances, perhaps with Sweden's Saab, maker of the Gripen fighter jet.
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In 2017, an interim government selected the Gripen built by Sweden's Saab but the deal was later cancelled and a new procedure was launched a year later.
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In 2017, an interim government selected the Gripen built by Sweden's Saab but the deal was later canceled and a new procedure was launched a year later.
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Bulgaria has received offers of Gripen warplanes from Swedish manufacturer Saab as well as offers for used F-16s from Portugal and secondhand Eurofighter Typhoons from Italy.
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Saab is meanwhile in talks to sell the Gripen to Slovakia while monitoring potential fighter purchases in India and Canada, officials at the Swedish defence company said.
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The Swedish company Saab had offered a squadron of new Gripen fighters, in a proposal that local media reported was worth some 800 million euros ($992 million).
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The revamped Gripen E is one of five aircraft which has attracted Finland's interest as it weighs an order for dozens of jets, according to industry executives.
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The ministry has said it has been looking into buying either second-hand U.S. F-16s, new jets from Sweden's Gripen, produced by SAAB or the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Israel had been in competition with several countries bidding for Zagreb's business and its most serious competitor was reported to have been Sweden's SAAB offering new Gripen planes.
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"The Gripen E development plan does not match the Swiss plan to perform flight tests with aircraft that are operationally ready in 2019," Saab said in a statement.
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And Sweden's Saab has offered a rival production line for its Gripen aircraft, setting up an early contest for one of the biggest military plane deals in play.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has again postponed talks to buy eight new Swedish-made Gripen warplanes to replace its aging Soviet-designed MiG-29s, its defense minister said on Thursday.
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Perhaps the most striking example is Saab, Sweden's defence firm, which created more than 100 agile teams, covering software, hardware and the fuselage, to build its Gripen fighter jet.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Sweden's Saab expects to enter into talks with Bulgaria in a few months to supply it with new Gripen fighter jets, a company executive said on Wednesday.
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Lockheed is competing for the Indian air force contract with Boeing, which has pitched its F/A-18 Super Hornet, as well as Swedens Saab with its Gripen fighter.
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That has encouraged the likes of Sweden's Saab and U.S. Lockheed Martin to re-pitch their single-engine Gripen and F-16 planes that were eliminated in the Rafale tender.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia might buy, rather than lease, a fleet of Gripen fighter jets from Sweden's Saab or might choose a different supplier, Defense Minister Peter Gajdos said on Wednesday.
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In a bid to win the tender, Sweden has sweetened its offer and proposed to supply Bulgaria with 10 new Saab Gripen jets instead of eight for the same price.
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However, Sweden said the plan allowed both sides to carry out studies with other partners and stressed its Gripen fighter would meet its air power needs "for the foreseeable future".
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New Gripen jets would take 18 to 24 months to deliver while F-16s may take until around 2023, said Jaroslav Nad, an analyst from the Slovak Security Police Institute.
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The system was used to shoot promotional footage of the Gripen performing a variety of maneuvers, taken up to 2.5G, and used at max zoom with seemingly zero camera shake.
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Saab says its new Gripen E fighter has been designed to shorten the time it takes to add upgrades, while sticking to an 11 billion Swedish crown ($1.3 billion) development budget.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's defense ministry said on Friday it was in talks to buy either American F-22017s or Swedish Gripen fighter jets to replace its aging Russian-made MiG-281s.
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For Switzerland, the Eurofighter will square off against Dassault's Rafale, Saab's Gripen, Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Lockheed's F-35, the only contender that offers radar-evading stealth capabilities.
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Analysts say it is unclear whether Europe can afford more than one fighter programme in future rather than the current three - the French Rafale, Swedish Gripen and multinational Eurofighter, which includes Britain.
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Slovakia had been in talks with Gripen maker Saab for years, before Defence Minister Peter Gajdos, from the junior coalition nationalist and eurosceptic SNS party, paused the talks and invited other bidders.
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Saab is offering its Gripen fighter and U.S. defence contractor Lockheed its F-16 to supply hundreds of aircraft that India's air force says it needs to replace its Soviet-era fleet.
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Plane makers are queuing up to fill the shortfall with revised offers, stressing their readiness to locate production in India, with Saab AB of Sweden also pushing its single-engine Gripen aircraft.
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Slovakia picked the new F-202020s made by Lockheed Martin over Swedish Gripen jets produced by Saab, calling them more modern and more advanced, according to an analysis published before the decision.
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After years of indecision, some analysts believe India could seek both single-engine jets like the Gripen and Lockheed Martin F-16 and twin-engine aircraft like the Rafale or F-18.
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That could give Gripen an edge against the older F-16, used by India's arch-rival Pakistan, but diplomats warn the shape of any future contest is unclear and could take time.
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The Stockholm-based company, maker of the Gripen fighter jet, said its third-quarter operating profit was 518 million Swedish crowns ($53.76 million), versus a 61 million loss in the year-earlier quarter.
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BRATISLAVA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Slovakia's defence ministry said on Friday it was in talks to purchase either American F-16s or Swedish Gripen fighter jets to replace its ageing Russian-made MiG-29s.
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The move to develop a new warplane accelerates steps that are expected to shape the future of the European fighter industry and its three existing programs - the Eurofighter, France's Rafale and Sweden's Gripen.
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LINKOPING, Sweden, May 353 (Reuters) - Sweden's Saab expressed optimism about fighter exports to nations including India as it unveiled a new version of its Gripen combat jet being developed for Sweden and Brazil.
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Selling for about $85 million excluding arms, the Gripen E is slightly cheaper than Rafale or Typhoon and significantly cheaper than the single-engined F-35, which is marketed for stealth, he added.
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Three months later Prime Minister Boyko Borissov also expressed doubt that the Gripen was the best choice, although he had initially told his Swedish counterpart that negotiations on buying them would proceed within weeks.
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"The operating margin strengthened mainly in Aeronautics, which had a higher activity level within the Gripen programmes and lower costs related to the development of the T-X trainer," Saab said in a statement.
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"The operating margin strengthened mainly in Aeronautics, which had a higher activity level within the Gripen programs and lower costs related to the development of the T-X trainer," Saab said in a statement.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia will postpone a decision on whether to buy U.S.-made F-216s or Swedish Gripen fighter jets to replace its aging Russian-made MiG-26.5s, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said on Wednesday.
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"We are offering to set up the world's most modern (aerospace) ecosystem and facility in India to manufacture the Gripen for India and the global market," Kent-Ake Molin, Gripen's product sales director, told reporters.
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Until recently, Lockheed Martin Corp's F-8.73 and Saab AB's Gripen were in a two-horse race supply at least 28.7 single-engine jets to build up the Indian Air Force's fast-depleting combat fleet.
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The company has developed the T-X trainer aircraft — recently ordered by the U.S. Air Force — with Boeing, while large projects in its backlog include orders from Sweden and Brazil for its Gripen E fighter jet.
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"Planes like the Saab Gripen, Eurofighter and F-16 are being evaluated, a process which will allow the (air force) to present recommendations for decision-making at the moment that the government determines," the statement added.
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It will now consider Airbus's Eurofighter, Boeing's F/A-23 Super Hornet, Dassault's Rafale, F-35As made by Lockheed-Martin and Saab's Gripen E. "The phase of analysis and testing starts," the Swiss Defence Department said.
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The company has developed the T-X trainer aircraft with Boeing, recently ordered by the U.S. Air Force, while large projects in its backlog include orders from Sweden and Brazil for its Gripen E fighter jet.
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The company has developed the T-X trainer aircraft - recently ordered by the U.S. Air Force - with Boeing, while large projects in its backlog include orders from Sweden and Brazil for its Gripen E fighter jet.
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The separate air force contract, expected to be for 100 single-engine fighters, has attracted Saab's Gripen E and Lockheed Martin Corp with its F-16, but the contest has yet to reach the RFI stage.
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Radev, who appointed the interim government after Borissov's previous government resigned late last year, called the commission "a tribunal for political influence" and stressed that military experts had made the decision in favor of the Gripen aircraft.
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Last month Saab, which has provided Gripen warplanes to Hungary and the Czech Republic, said it hoped Croatia could enter the market for fighter jets soon and that it would hold talks with Slovakia over new aircraft.
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Lofven will be asked in a Swedish court about his contacts with Brazil's former presidents Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva regarding the country's purchase of Saab Gripen fighters in a deal struck five years ago.
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In June last year Sofia said it would start talks to buy new Gripen warplanes from Swedish manufacturer Saab but the purchase was put on hold after lawmakers questioned if all bidders for the contract had been treated equally.
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India picked the Rafale plane to replace its aging fleet of Russian aircraft from a field that included Lockheed Martin's F-16, Saab's Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon, Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Russian MiG-35.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Europe is embarking on an expensive and politically charged effort to develop a new combat jet that will shape the future of the European fighter industry and its three existing programs: Eurofighter, France's Rafale and Sweden's Gripen.
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India picked the Rafale plane to replace its ageing fleet of Russian aircraft from a field that included Lockheed Martin's F-16, Saab's Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon, Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Russian MiG-35.
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The move to develop a new warplane is seen as a preliminary step toward overcoming differences that have left Europe struggling to maintain three competing fighter programs - France's Rafale, the Eurofighter - representing Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain - and Sweden's Gripen.
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"I believe that due to the rather tense situation in many areas we will see a big increase in spending in Europe," he told reporters as Saab prepared to unveil a more powerful version of its Gripen fighter on Wednesday.
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The move to develop a new warplane is seen as a preliminary step towards overcoming differences that have left Europe struggling to maintain three competing fighter programs - France's Rafale, Sweden's Gripen and the Eurofighter, involving Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain.
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Hakan Buskhe, Saab's CEO, told reporters in New Delhi that the company would invest "billions of dollars" if it won the order, and that it was prepared to export the Gripen from India if the government allowed it to do so.
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The move to develop a new warplane is seen as a preliminary step towards overcoming differences that have left Europe struggling to maintain three competing fighter programmes - France's Rafale, the Eurofighter - representing Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain - and Sweden's Gripen.
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The working group did not recommend any specific model or manufacturer, but listed the candidates as Jas Gripen, Dassault Aviation's Rafale, Boeing's Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin's F-35 and the Eurofighter, which is made by Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain.
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India picked the Rafale plane to replace its ageing fleet of Russian aircraft from a field that included Lockheed Martin F-16, Saab's Gripen, the Eurofighter Typhoon, Boeing 's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Russian MiG-35.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Saab will not test its Gripen fighter jet this month in Switzerland, the Swedish company said on Thursday, after the Swiss defense procurement agency recommended against it on grounds the plane would not be operationally ready in 2019.
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Slovakia said in July it had agreed to spend $1.9 billion to buy 14 Lockheed F-16 fighter jets to replace its aging Russian-made MiG-29s, opting for the U.S. warplanes instead of Swedish Gripen jets produced by Saab.
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SOFIA, June 23 (Reuters) - Bulgaria is to start talks to buy new Swedish Gripen warplanes to replace its Soviet-designed MiG-29s but will expect Sweden's commitment on investments in the Balkan country before signing a deal, the prime minister said on Friday.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has decided to start talks with Sweden to acquire eight new Gripen combat jets made by SAAB, interim deputy prime minister Stefan Yanev said on Wednesday, as the Balkan country seeks to replace its aging Soviet-designed MiG-29s.
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The maker of the Gripen fighter jet said its fourth-quarter operating profit rose to 13 billion crowns ($152.56 million), up from 995 million in the same quarter a year earlier, while the operating margin jumped to 12.9 percent from 9.8 percent.
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The maker of the Gripen fighter jet said its fourth-quarter operating profit rose to 1.42 billion crowns ($152.56 million), up from 995 million in the same quarter a year earlier, while the operating margin jumped to 12.9 percent from 9.8 percent.
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Beyond Boeing and Lockheed, other potential partners include the Eurofighter consortium - a European joint venture between Airbus Group, BAE Systems PLC and Leonardo Finmeccanica SpA that produces the Typhoon fighter jet - and Sweden's Saab AB, which recently unveiled the latest variant of its Gripen warplane.
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Israel had been in competition with several countries that Croatia had asked last year to bid for contracts to supply fighter jets.. Sweden's SAAB was reported by local media as the most serious competitor, offering new Gripen planes, but at a much higher price.
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Boeing is proposing its F/A-18 Super Hornet and Saab has touted its Gripen M concept in responses to a request for information (RFI) on the naval contract but they are waiting for a more formal request for proposal (RFP) to be issued.
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The previous interim government in Sofia had said talks should start with Sweden for the purchase of eight Gripen aircraft, but current Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has cast doubts on whether Sofia should rush into a deal, estimated at 1.5 billion levs ($860 million).
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Swedish defense firm Saab AB, which is seeking to sell its Gripen fighter jets to the Indian Air Force, said on Tuesday it could offer to make most of them in a production facility likely to be set up in one of the southern cities.
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Click here to view original GIFTo help Saab Defence and Security capture some spectacular footage of its Gripen fighter jet, a Swedish-based company called Blue Sky used a custom-built gyro-stabilized camera system that can ride along at speeds of over 345 miles per hour.
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SAAB, which is proposing a lease arrangement with Malaysia for use of the Gripen, is also in the running for a deal to deliver 36 single engine multi-role combat aircraft to the Philippines, according to an industry source who has direct knowledge of the negotiations.
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The deal for Lockheed Martin's F-16V Block 70 would be worth around 1.8 billion levs ($1.06 billion), Bulgaria's biggest military procurement since the fall of Communist rule some 30 years ago.. Other bidders had included Sweden, with Saab's Gripen jets, and Italy, with second-hand Eurofighters.
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For more on the company, click on Canada late on Thursday unveiled plans to buy 18 Boeing Corp Super Hornets, a competing fighter to Saab's Gripen series, as a stop-gap measure while it prepared an open five-year competition to replace its aging fleet of fighter jets.
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Finland's new center-left government said last week it would pick new fighter jets in 2021 from five shortlisted options, including U.S.-based Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, French firm Dassault's Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon and Swedish firm Saab's Jas Gripen, as well as the F-35.
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Saab's pitch for its Gripen E aircraft comes a day after Lockheed said it is pushing ahead with its proposal to transfer the production line of its F-16 fighter to India, even though it understands that President Donald Trump's administration may want to take a fresh look at such plans.
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Lula's lawyers said he had no role in the Gripen purchase and they have sought the Swedish leader's testimony to debunk the allegation by prosecutors that the deal was reached at a meeting between Lula, Rousseff and Lofven at a hotel in South Africa during the funeral of Nelson Mandela in 2013.
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The ministry has called for bids for new or used jets from the United States (F-16 and F/A-18 Super Hornet), France (Dassault Rafale) and Sweden (Gripen C/D) as well as new jets from Germany (Eurofighter 3 Tranche) and used planes from Portugal (F-16), Israel (F-16) and Italy (Eurofighter Tranche 1).
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Sunday's parade, which included a flypass by JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets, was the showcase event of Prague's centennial weekend which also featured concerts, the re-opening of the National Museum after a three-year renovation, visits by foreign leaders and a state medal ceremony due to be hosted by President Milos Zeman at Prague Castle on Sunday evening.
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