i am not referring to that angle. Sweden has been selling stuff to Middleast/pakistan for long time and China has backdoor to all those countries. civilian industry sweden already sold off and more and more components for military products get imported. it has very small technical base and cant produce that much diversification in export products. the word diversification mean to quickly produce completely different variant when product is compromised. Is there Gripen in south africa?

Yes, Pakistan bought EriEye, but was rejected when they asked for Gripen.
Same for Middle East.
What has South Africa to do with the discussion?
They are not on the banned list.

Only lethal weapons.

I believe that weapons useable to quell an insurgency are blocked,
but weapons mostly useable for defending a country are OK.
Gripen is not sold to the Middle East, GlobalEye is OK.
Recoilless weapons like the AT-4 would not be allowed, but ATGMs probably would be OK.
A deal involving refurbishing ATGM in Saudi Arabia got canned because some other rules got
circumvented by some government employeees forming a secret company for part of the deal.
As a result, an agreement of cooperation with Saudi Arabia was cancelled, and the ATGM deal canned.

Ouragan… And Super Mystere 😉

Excuse my French, LOL,

There is another factor. Let it be called “fighting spirit”.
German officers during the Second World War estimated it as follows:
1. Russian
2. Germans
3. Englishmen
4. Americans

Everyone knows that Arabs are bad soldiers. And the Jews are cunning and clever

The fighting spirit of the Finns were many times that of the Soviets during the Winter War.
It is highly likely that any war would be with Russia as the attacker, so the Finns would be
fighting on their home ground, so I doubt it would be different now.

Potential of possible adversaries (area of the territory * population):
Finland 1.0
Sweden 2.38
Russia 1336

Gross domestic product
Finland 1.0
Sweden 2.16
Russia 20.1

The Air Force, the number of combat aircraft
Finland 1.0 (126 pcs.)
Sweden 2.23 (281)
Russia 10.7 (1348 pcs.)

F/A-18C/D surpass JAS-39 by 20% in total combat effectiveness.
F/A-18E/F surpass JAS-39 by 85% in total combat effectiveness.

To equalize the chances in the air war Sweden-Finland, the latter requires 70 F/A-18E/F or 33 F-35A
To fight with Russia is senseless

Based on Your ridiculous way of comparision, Egypts potential is 522 times that of Israel.
Egypt still is beaten.
I guess You compute combat effectiveness in the same manner,
Maybe it is not a coincidence that Sweden has conquered Moscow,
but Russia has not conquered Stockholm, LOL.

It does not predate Nazis many years as they alone have adopted the insignia roughly in that time (symbol for Aryan race, 1920, I think).. the use of hook cross by states like Latvia or Finland is always excused in style “but oh, this is the sacred symbol of auspiciousness and has nothing to do with Nazis, whatsoever” but the fact is that all the states having used it have later aided Nazis in the WWII in one way or another.. An accident? You tell me..

It was not an accident that Finland joined Germany.
It was a reaction to the illegal actions of the Soviet Union in 1939.
Finland had every right to regain their territories.

If the Soviets had not attacked Finland in 1939, the Finns would not have joined Germany.
They would have tried to stay out of the war.

Force protection for an AWACS becomes impossible when the defender only has Gen 4 jets against a Gen 5 adversary. The AWACS/Gen 4s can only detect the Gen 5 at half of the Gen 5’s missile range. The Gen 5 flight, launching from beyond detection range, simply wipes out the Gen 4 defenders in a BVR salvo and chases down the AWACS.

Unless the AWACS detects the Gen 5 aircraft first, and provides targetting information to the Gen 4 fighter
which fires its missile, before the Gen 5 aircraft detects the Gen 4 aircraft.