Cheaper in which way? Armed Paveway drops haven’t been done yet. Just captive carry, dead drops, and no press releases saying guided drops have been done. Hang all that crap on a Gripen and it will just spend more time going for the tanker. Add to that using slow basket refueling. Boom refueling with the F-16 goes at about 5000+ lbs per minute. Less time on the jet. Hard to be “cheaper” when there isn’t a complete “apples to apples” ability, especially in the A2G setup which is already known, tested, proven with the F-16.
Yes, the grippen hasn’t done in dew years what took the F-16 something like 20 years.
Given the anemic level of spending by many other European countries defense departments ( in an age of mass cutting….. look at the news ).
Bush or Kerry, let’s see the american military budget in the close future
The offset contract suggested this. By the way, they already produce parts for the Gripen.
The Polish politicians thought they are clever. Additional investments from the US (for example the P&W engine assembly line ) as well as the work-share in the Gripen. A bit to greedy, in my opinion.
Poland built some parts of Dassault falcon too 😉
The Poland deal will be stood up with 3 colors of U.S. taxpayer giveaways.
I am sure it wont be a problem. The stupid U.S. taxpayer always comes through on give away deals like this. In reality the 3.8 ? billion deal works out to be more like 6 billion once all the giveaways ( U.S. taxpayer offsets, are added up). Robbing the U.S. taxpayer is what the military industrial complex in my country is good at. The Polish deal isn’t especially hard to do.
Please, don’t tell that after EU give 5 billions to Poland.
If LM promised so much, they know what they are doing.
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