Croatia and Gripen!
Postat: 26 okt 2015, 22:19
Croatia and Gripen!
2015-10-24...FXM, the Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency, responded today, Friday 23 October, to a request for information from Croatia concerning the procurement of Gripen aircraft. The request concerns 8 to 12 newly built aircraft of the C/D model.
The request for information that FXM responded to was sent from the Croatian Ministry of Defence in June this year. Sweden has had a positive dialogue with Croatia regarding the Gripen since the year 2007. With today’s answer FXM wishes to emphasize that Croatia is seen as a possible valuable future Gripen partner in an important region where other countries already are flying the Gripen.
. FXM is also negotiating with Slovakia, also here the negotiations concern the Gripen C/D.
Croatia started to look for a replacement for its aging Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 “Fishbed” fighters in 2007. According to the FXM website, the request involved information on 8 to 12 newly built Gripen C/D fighters.
Swedish Air Force had earlier announced that it cannot lend any more Gripen C/D. Buskhe says that Saab can still export Gripen C/D variant adding that it is possible to supply new C/D fighters in 18 months.
OCH:.......T-X trainer
Saab and Boeing are working in collaboration to develop a trainer aircraft for the USAF. Saab has been working on this project for a couple of years with a team both in St Louis and in Linköping and Saab CEO,
2015-10-24...FXM, the Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency, responded today, Friday 23 October, to a request for information from Croatia concerning the procurement of Gripen aircraft. The request concerns 8 to 12 newly built aircraft of the C/D model.
The request for information that FXM responded to was sent from the Croatian Ministry of Defence in June this year. Sweden has had a positive dialogue with Croatia regarding the Gripen since the year 2007. With today’s answer FXM wishes to emphasize that Croatia is seen as a possible valuable future Gripen partner in an important region where other countries already are flying the Gripen.
. FXM is also negotiating with Slovakia, also here the negotiations concern the Gripen C/D.
Croatia started to look for a replacement for its aging Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 “Fishbed” fighters in 2007. According to the FXM website, the request involved information on 8 to 12 newly built Gripen C/D fighters.
Swedish Air Force had earlier announced that it cannot lend any more Gripen C/D. Buskhe says that Saab can still export Gripen C/D variant adding that it is possible to supply new C/D fighters in 18 months.
OCH:.......T-X trainer
Saab and Boeing are working in collaboration to develop a trainer aircraft for the USAF. Saab has been working on this project for a couple of years with a team both in St Louis and in Linköping and Saab CEO,