JAS-39 Gripen

Det kan bli fler än 36 Gripen E till Brasilien..

"Brasilien har beställt 36 Gripen-plan från Saab. Nu öppnar landet för att köpa ytterligare stridsflygplan. I en intervju i brasilianska tidningen Valor Economico som Corren refererar till säger landets nye flygvapenchef att landet behöver mellan 60–70 flygplan"


https://www.svd.se/brasilien-intresserat-av-flera-gripen-plan

Det där förstår jag inte riktigt, var det inte meningen att deras egna (kommande/under uppbyggnad) nybyggda fabriker skulle ta hand om det, vid en eventuell utökning i antal Brasilianska Gripen E/F?
Vilket fall, alltigenom bra för Sveriges ekonomi och folk på bandet.

Det är Saab som är huvudägaren av Gripen, och det är ju fortfarande Saab (tillsammans med brasiliansk industri) som är säljaren även om det mesta av produktionen, samt utvecklingen av F-versionen, är lagd i Brasilien. Vidare affärer i Sydamerika ska Brasiliansk industri (Embraer) ha huvudansvaret för.

Vad är det du inte förstår? Brasilien kan inte piratkopiera Gripen, alla plan beställs naturligtvis av Saab, men med en ökande industriell insats från brasilianska partners.

/capmac

PÅ detta forum https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/legacy-jas-39a-b-c-d-gripens.37320/#post-461157:

There have been reports from Philippines that a deal for acquiring 14 MS20 Gripen C/Ds is near as part of their Horizon 2 military modernization efforts. The fighter acquisition plan included in the Horizon 2 is said to be a $1.2 billion program with aims to procure 12 or more airframes. Candidates of the program were block 70/72 Viper and Gripen or simply adding more FA-50s. Since the FA-50 is closer to a light-attack aircraft than a fighter, the Philippine Air Force wanted an actual fighter jet capable of BVR engagement. Problem was that any 4.5th gen fighter jets were too expensive and other used 4th gen options had too much flight-hours on the aircraft for the Filipino program.

The Swedes later on were able to strike the deal that is not only within the budget but actually cheaper. This was able due to the fact that there were surplus Gripen C/Ds that were produced during the 2010s to keep the Gripen production line alive. (https://www.svd.se/staten-betalade-saab-for-14-gripenskrov--star-oanvanda) The Swedish gov. funded the production but they were anticipating those 14 airframes to be able to be sold overseas. That anticipation has not been realized for quite some time until now. The stop-gap Gripens were comprised of 10 C models and 4 D models and were part of the contract for Gripen E/Fs of the Swedish AF.

The said deal is around $400 million cheaper than the LM proposal for 12 Block 70/72s, so that means the program cost for these Gripens are less than $84 million per airframe. I've never seen that cheap of a fighter jet in recent years. I guess there were some costs cut from the Swedish side as well since it is hard to expect for anyone to buy Gripen C/Ds nowadays and it's better to sell them off rather than leaving them sit with almost 0 flight hours.

De skrov Kroatien ratade verkar gå till Filippinerna istället. Mycket större framtida potential.

Det kommer mer info om Brasiliens Gripen planer:

In a major shakeup of its aircraft buying plans, the Brazilian air force plans to nearly double its order of Saab Gripen fighters and cut its number of Embraer KC-390 Millennium transports roughly in half.

The service explained its plans in two interviews with Brazilian media on 1 and 2 June.
In total, the Brazilian air force aims to buy between 60 and 70 examples of the Gripen E/F, a fighter that it renamed the F-39E/F. That’s up from an initial order of 36 aircraft.

“We bought the first batch, but our expectation is that it will be somewhere around 60 or 70 aircraft,” said commander of the Brazilian Air Force, Lieutenant Brigadier Carlos de Almeida Baptista Jr., in an interview with Valor Economico, a financial newspaper in Brazil on 2 June. “Soon, it will be time to start talking about a second batch. With a country the size of Brazil, you can’t talk about just 36 fighter planes.”

Plans to increase its order of F-39E/F fighters come as the country is also cutting back on its order of Embraer KC-390 transports. Brazil had originally ordered 28 examples of the aircraft, but after negotiations with Embraer expects to receive between 13 and 16 units over the course of the programme, it says in an interview with Brazilian publication Aero Magazine. The service had earlier said that Embraer would only produce two aircraft per year going forward.

The negative impact of the coronavirus on the Brazilian economy, and thus government tax revenues, forced the service to make a hard choice, Baptista said.

In 2021 the Bazilian air force only has “50% of the resources to pay the financing of the KC-390 and the Gripen”, he says. Faced with a choice between a larger fighter fleet and its domestically-developed KC-390, the service chose future purchases of the F-39E/F.

Changes to the Brazilian air force’s buying plans could be a mixed bag for Embraer, which is involved in the domestic production of the F-39E/F fighter. The 36-aircraft acquisition deal includes in-country production of 15 examples of the fighter, in partnership with Embraer, with the rest of the fleet to be built by Saab in Sweden. It also includes a technology transfer agreement to train more than 350 Brazilian engineers and technicians in Sweden on the fighter’s manufacturing

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/brazilian-air-force-to-nearly-double-saab-gripen-order-cut-kc-390-order-in-half-reports/144019.article

Det rör på sig.

Idag fick jag se tre JAS Gripen flyga förbi på låg höjd, i gamla tider var detta en vanlig syn men de senaste 20 åren mer sällsynt. Först kom två som flög nära varandra, de girade precis ovanför min gård så jag fick en bra bild av dem, tror det var en C- och en D-kärra. Sedan efter 10 minuter kom en C-kärra till i exakt samma spår. De flög kanske 100 m över backen och långsammare än ljudet eftersom ljudet kom före dem.

Det lät som åskan då de kom! hur som helst så blir man glad att se att de övar igen

Bor man i närheten av en flottilj syns de ofta.
En division övar från Visby just nu så ser Gripen runt 10 gånger per dag just nu.
Fint väder är det också.

Det är en våldsam aktivitet här i norr.

https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/var-verksamhet/ovningar/ace21/

Deltagande länder och stridsflygplan: Sverige – 211:a, 212:e och 72:a stridsflygdivisionen samt TU-Jas med Jas 39 Gripen, Finland med F-18 Hornet, Norge med F-16 Fighting Falcon och F-35,*Danmark med F-16 Fighting Falcon, Tyskland med Eurofighter Typhoon och USA med F-16*CJ.

Gripen till Colombia

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/saab-proposes-gripen-ef-package-colombia

Det kanske kan bli av, se att deras samlade BNP är större än vår vilket är en bra förutsättning för trovärdigheten i förfrågan..

Da må du ha sett feil.
Columbia 323.6 billion USD (2019)
Sverige 530.9 billion USD (2019)