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Saab and FMV Sign Contract for New Gripen E Equipment
(Source: Saab; issued Dec 21, 2018)
Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV)
regarding new equipment for Gripen E.
This is a supplementary contract to the previous Gripen E contract,
and is valued to approximately SEK 430 million.
The original contract, regarding development and modification of Gripen E, signed with FMV in February 2013,
was based on the terms that certain equipment
from the existing Gripen C/D fleet within the Swedish Armed Forces should be reused.
Instead of reusing equipment from the Gripen C/D,
new equipment is acquired for a part of the total Swedish order of 60 Gripen E aircraft.
This approach secures the availability of the Swedish Gripen C/D fleet in operational service,
while Gripen E is being delivered and introduced to the Swedish Armed Forces.
In December 2017 Saab received a supplementary contract from FMV for new equipment for Gripen E.
This second supplementary contract covers another batch of new equipment.
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... er-454732/
02 January, 2019
Sweden has dropped a plan
to reuse some parts from its air force's in-service fleet of Saab Gripen C/Ds
during production of new-generation Gripen Es,
citing operational considerations.
Announced on 21 December 2018 and worth around SKr430 million ($47.5 million),
a new contract from Sweden's Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) covers
the provision of unspecified new-build components for some of the nation's future inventory of 60 E-model fighters.
This replaces an order signed in February 2013 that proposed sourcing some parts from in-service aircraft.
"Instead of reusing equipment from the Gripen C/D,
new equipment is acquired for a part of the total Swedish order of 60 Gripen E aircraft," Saab says.
"This approach secures the availability of the Swedish Gripen C/D fleet in operational service,
while Gripen E is being delivered and introduced to the Swedish armed forces."
On 1 December 2018, the FMV had announced a revised agreement in relation to the Gripen E programme,
for "utilising material from the former JAS 39 A/B, and to supplement certain new equipment".
It added: "Through the order, operations and conditions are created for the Swedish armed forces,
so that they can still avoid the delivery of a number of JAS 39 C/Ds for rebuilding to JAS 39E."
Saab is scheduled to deliver the first Gripen E to the Swedish air force later this year,
with the GE Aviation F414-powered type due to achieve initial operational capability with the service during 2023.
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