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If Sweden can develop fighter airplanes, why can’t Norway?
by ptr 7y ago
If Sweden can develop fighter airplanes, why can’t Norway?
- nradov 7y agoSweden can't develop a fifth generation fighter airplane. It's just too expensive.
- secfirstmd 7y agoIt will be interesting to see if France tries next time. The UK, Germany and Italy certainly can't.
- achamayou 7y agoThe plan seems to be to do it in common with Germany and Spain: https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2019/06/franco-german-next-generation-fighter https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2019/06/franco-g...
- noir_lord 7y agoThe UK is already in early stages of design for a potential replacement to Eurofighter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Tempest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Tempest We will be working with Sweden on it as well.
- ajross 7y agoThe Gripen first flew 31 years ago, even at the time was considered an outrageously expensive project given the market size (Wikipedia tells me only 247 were ever built!), and frankly there's significant disagreement as to whether it even represents an improvement over the F-16's everyone else was buying at the time. It was a stretch, and they made it work. But I don't think you'd call this a success. The Viggen was closer to that, and it was a 1960's design.