OTTAWA — Swedish defence agency Saab says if Ottawa chooses to purchase its Gripen E fighter jets, Canada might find yourself making among the ones destined for Ukraine’s air pressure.
Saab says as much as 20 of its Gripen jets will likely be constructed for Ukraine beneath a European Union help mortgage settlement and Sweden will donate 16 older-model Gripens to the war-torn nation.
Saab’s deputy CEO Andres Carp tells The Canadian Press that Canada might turn into a manufacturing and export website and will ship Gripens to Ukraine if the federal authorities chooses to spend money on the product itself.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal authorities has been reviewing whether or not to proceed with a full order of 88 F-35 fighter jets for greater than a yr now.
Carp says that whereas Ottawa has not given Saab any timeline for finishing that evaluate, the corporate understands it’s a posh choice.
Carney began the political evaluate of the F-35 procurement in March of final yr, not lengthy after U.S. President Donald Trump launched his commerce warfare with Canada.
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