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Gripens To Thailand!

  • 11-02-2008 10:02pm
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    Steyr
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    First lot of 6 jets + 1 erieye... with follow on orders to come as the ambition is to replace the whole F-5 fleet.

    Gripen is quitely grabbing some market share from F-16/SU-30.. now selected by 5 airforces (4 exports) on 3 continents + UKs ETPS.

    At a ceremony in Stockholm today, FMVs (Swedish Defence Materiel Administration) Director General Gunnar Holmgren and Air Chief Marshal Chalit Pukbhasuk, Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF), signed an agreement for the delivery of six Gripen multirole fighter aircraft of the latest version and a surveillance system.

    With this agreement RTAF will be able to replace its outgoing F-5 aircraft in the beginning of 2011. RTAF will get six Gripen multirole aircraft of the latest C and D version (four dual-seated, JAS 39 Gripen D and two one-seated JAS 39 Gripen C) together with one Saab 340 Erieye surveillance system and one Saab 340 aircraft for training and transport.

    http://www.fmv.se/WmTemplates/page.aspx?id=3954

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    Pretty cool for Europe IMO. If only they came South and West of the UK to a place called Casement.


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