Fact is: the Gripen will do everything Norway wants it to do.

Same will do your F-16’s if you update them…
BTW is NoAF still operating F-5’s?

Wow you’re really mature. :rolleyes: Sad to see signs of desperation.

Ha… 😀 … Then how do you call that at each Air meeting Saab is spreadding Add, Pictures to who ever pass close … Pay large articles in what ever newspaper they can… Since the target is not your average Joe on the street 🙂

You don’t understand. Politicans and advisors read product documentation in between meetings. Translation does not happen until after a sale is complete. Do you think there’s already a Norwegian JSF manual somewhere or what ?

NOw that is a lame excuse of incompetent adivisors that they don’t know a foreign language …
Do you think Gripen has a manual for Dk/N version.

And for your info a decision is not made out of a Brosure and Marketing materials.

Rafale is just too foreign.

hehhehe .. NATO standards are there with a purpose.

Anyway … Gripen N is only a proposal . F35 is in production already. 🙂
I am preaty sure that the Norway will receive the L2 .. 🙂 ..Don’t run and Cry when they will announce it.

Man it’s not easy selling jets, you don’t just buy a jet like a car 🙂

Still SAAb is marketing it like cars …

I think some problems can also be down to simple issues like person to person contacts, eventhough the French can (reluctantly) speak English I have never had the impression that they can do the ‘Business English’ of a confident marketing division.

Ha…. Maybe you mean Business American English 😀

For instance the Norwegians speak/read English and Swedish perfectly, but if you hand them a manual to Rafale they will look like big question marks since it’s written in French. Thus the buyer have to put more trust into the seller and translations. Just one of the human sides of it all…

Now you lost it… Even the russian Delivered Manuals translated in the native tongue of the Buyer. Common practice to translate military manuals.

Assuming that Norway will cut the JSF financing …

that is not maintenance…. that is rearming and refueling.
Maintenance is changing a wing, replacing the engine, etc.

I know the aircraft who had a high value it has expensive maintenance,but the Jas-39 its the lowest cost of any frontline fighter in maintenance and less than $2500 per flying hour

they wish 😀

solution is simple… get more F-16’s