cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/46943117
Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab has proposed that a hypothetical Gripen production line in Canada would be large enough to also serve export customers besides making planes for the Canadian Air Force.
The statement is the latest effort by Saab in sweetening the pot for Canada to give the Swedish company a slice of its fighter jet business.
“We need to ramp up our [fighter jet] production capabilities, to a level where it’s not only for Canada – we do see that [the potential line] will produce for export as well,” Mikael Franzén, chief marketing officer for the Gripen at Saab, told reporters at the Singapore Airshow here.
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It is a huge job to replace the engine of a fighter jet, they will not use another engine until they replace Gripen with the next generation.
Am am sure there is a internal program at Rolls Roycle to design such an engine for rapid development if needed. Probably for the F16 engine also.