(Luft) Saab Gripen

[Quintus Fabius]

Hier noch was zur Brasilien - Argentinien - Gripen Connection:

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Ein interessanter Einzelpunkt den ja auch schon phantom angesprochen hatte:

The Gripen E, a major upgrade of Sweden’s Gripen C, is powered by an American-made General Electric F414 engine. U.S. export law gives Washington veto power over any sale of the motor, even as part of a foreign warplane.

So if the U.S.—the U.K.’s closest ally—so chooses, it could more or less cancel Brazil’s proposed Gripen sale to Argentina. Indeed, London has repeatedly leaned on its allies not to sell jet fighters to Buenos Aires.

In the past couple of years, Great Britain has diplomatically defeated Argentina’s attempt to buy used Mirage F.1 fighters from Spain as well as the Latin American country’s proposal to hire a French company to upgrade Argentine Super Etendard attack planes.

Argentina has been in talks to acquire mothballed Kfir fighters from Israel, but like the Gripens these jets have American engines, thus giving the U.K. a wedge to block any transfer.

Now, just because America could halt a Gripen sale at Britain’s request doesn’t mean it definitely will.

Tatsächlich ist das auch bei etlichen anderen Rüstungsgeschäften so, dass die USA hier Veto-Rechte haben aufgrund irgendwelcher Elektronik etc die verbaut wurde. Und diese werden von den USA zweifelsohne auch genutzt, um damit eigene Unternehmen zu fördern.