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Montevideo, May 7th 2025 - 02:00 UTC

Tag: Saab

  • Friday, March 17th 2023 - 07:37 UTC

    Argentina, SAAB sign military radar technology deal

    “We are very pleased with the relationship we have been carrying on with SAAB,” said Taiana

    Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Wednesday signed the so-called “Productive Cooperation Agreement” deal with Swedish developers SAAB Dynamics. The agreement provides for SAAB's support to the Argentine company INVAP for the integration of radars to the RBS-70 system, as well as for the technological transfer to the Armed Forces.

  • Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 - 10:34 UTC

    Brazil receives first shipment of Swedish fighter parts from Saab

    Saab used to ship complete, tested, and airworthy aircraft

    Brazil has taken delivery of the first shipment of parts of Swedish Gripen F-39E fighters to be assembled at Embraer's Defesa & Segurança's facilities in Gavião Peixoto, in the state of São Paulo. Hence, the aircraft with serial number 6032 will be the first to be entirely assembled in the South American country.

  • Thursday, May 10th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

    Swedish PM to testify in corruption case involving sale of 36 fighter jets to Brazil

    Lofven will be asked in a Swedish court about contacts with Brazil’s ex presidents Rousseff and Lula da Silva regarding the purchase of Saab Gripen fighters

    Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has been summoned to testify next month as a witness in a Brazilian corruption case involving the purchase of fighter jets by Brazil, the Stockholm District Court said on Wednesday. Lofven will be asked in a Swedish court about his contacts with Brazil’s former presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva regarding the country’s purchase of Saab Gripen fighters in a deal struck five years ago.

  • Thursday, December 19th 2013 - 06:06 UTC

    Brazil surprises and hands Sweden Gripens the contract for 36 new fighters

    “Performance, transfer of technology and costs were taken into account”, said Defense minister Amorim (L)

    Sweden's Saab AB prevailed over U.S. giant Boeing and French manufacturer Dassault Aviation in a competition to supply the Brazilian air force with 36 aircraft to replace its aging Mirage 2000s, Brazil said Wednesday.

  • Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 03:52 UTC

    Brazil’s defence industry booming and promoting projects with neighbours

    KC-390 military air transport developed jointly with Argentina, Chile and Colombia

    Brazil's defence industry is booming, fuelled by government incentives to modernize the country's armed forces and develop a robust, export-oriented military industrial complex. With the world's sixth largest economy, Brazil was ranked as the eighth largest arms exporter in the 1980s but currently languishes in 30th place, according to industry experts

  • Thursday, May 19th 2011 - 07:16 UTC

    Brazil’s purchase of 36 fighter jets will be made in 2012 says Rousseff

    Sweden’s Grippen is one of the three offers for the several billion USD contract

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff revealed this week that the purchase of 36 fighter jets for the country's Air Force and involving billions of dollars but which has been postponed for years will be made in 2012.

  • Monday, May 10th 2010 - 18:19 UTC

    Brazilian Contract for Jet Fighters, Another Chip in the EU/Mercosur Trade Talks

    French resistance to negotiations could yield to the 6.5 billion USD contract

    French resistance to the resumption of Mercosur European Union trade talks caused great disappointment among the block’s members, but Brazil believes it has a strong bargaining chip for a greater opening of the European agriculture market: the several billions US dollars fighter planes contract for the Brazilian Air Force.