Brazil sign deal to acquire 36 Gripen E/F and also set up plans for exports to other South American countries.

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The Brazilian FX-2 competition took long but the final negotiations between the winner and the Brazilian airforce have gone very smoothly (10 months which can be compared to 2+ years for the MMRCA in India).

Apart from concluding the sales of 36 Gripen E/F (E is the single seated version and F is the twin seated version) Brazil also signed a bilateral agreement with Argentina which could lead to the sale of 24 Brazilian produced Gripen E/F being sold to Argentina.

Interestingly enough the Brazilian deal may also benefit the British as the Gripen contain a large number of British components and Saab also operate an office for the navalization of Gripen which may be operated from the Brazilian carrier or even the British carriers at a fixed development cost of 250 MUSD.

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Key Points

• Brazil's contract for 36 Gripen E/F fighters makes it the first export customer for the type.
• As well as signing for the aircraft, Brazil and Saab have agreed a 10-year industrial co-operation deal.
• Deliveries for the 28 single-seat Gripen E and eight twin-seat Gripen F aircraft will begin in 2019 and run through to 2024.

Brazil has signed a SEK39.3 billion (USD5.4 billion) contract for 36 Gripen E/F fighters, the company announced on 27 October.
The contract, which was signed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) through the Aeronautics Command (COMAER), follows a decision by the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira - FAB) to select the Swedish-built fighter to fulfil its F-X2 requirement in December 2013.
Starting from 2019, the FAB will take delivery of 28 single-seat Gripen E and eight twin-seat Gripen F aircraft. Deliveries are set to run through to 2024.
As part of the deal, Saab and COMAER have signed a 10-year agreement for industrial co-operation projects, including technology transfer to Brazilian industry. As the only customer so far signed up for the Gripen F, Brazil will be heavily involved in its development and solely responsible for its production.
Both the Gripen procurement and the associated industrial co-operation contracts will come into effect once the necessary export control-related authorisations are in place. This is expected to happen in the first half of 2015.
According to Saab, Brazil's commitment to the Gripen E/F will secure the type's operational future out to the 2050 time frame.

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Hawk Peixoto (SP), 21/10/2014 - The defense ministers of Brazil and Argentina, Celso Amorim and Agustín Rossi, signed on Tuesday (21) an important bilateral cooperation agreement that will ensure legal and policy basis for the expansion of joint projects in the aeronautical sector. Called Strategic Alliance in Aircraft Industry (IAEA), the agreement aims to integrate and strengthen the defense industries of both nations. Stimulus to the productive sector of the two countries, contained in document the possibility of adopting measures such as identifying potential industrial alliances, developing new joint projects and generating anticipated demand for products that can provide economies of scale.



Agustín Rossi also announced the decision of the Argentine government to begin negotiations to purchase 24 Swedish Gripen NG will be produced in Brazil. The conditions of purchase, as well as the eventual Argentine participation in the production of these aircraft will be the subject of negotiations in the coming months, between representatives of the two countries. The contract for the acquisition and development of 36 Gripen NG, Brazil, should be signed by December this year.

Two Swedish delegations have recently visited the Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo in support of plans to develop a naval version of the JAS 39E/F Gripen fighter. A government team toured the ship in August, followed by a Saab-Embraer technical/engineering group in September.
Informally known as the Gripen M (Maritime or Marinha), the carrier-based version has been under study in parallel with the E/F since the program's early years. In 2013, in the run-up to Brazil's selection of the JAS 39E/F as its next fighter (with a contract due at year-end), Saab said that its company-funded study had brought the Gripen M to the point where it could be offered as a fixed-price development program, costing $250 million and taking five years from launch to production deliveries.
Saab and Brazil have already agreed that Embraer will lead the development of the two-seat JAS 39F, subject to the final contract, and development of the Gripen M could broaden that partnership. Ownership of an operational aircraft carrier is clearly a prerequisite for a Gripen M partner, and both India and Brazil have been approached.
Brazil's Sao Paulo carrier, formerly the French navy's Foch, has taken a long time to upgrade and restore to operational condition, but the Brazilian navy has persisted both with the ship and its current air wing, including a major upgrade of its AF-1 Skyhawk fighters with a new Elta radar and glass cockpit. One report suggests that Brazil expects the ship and its air wing to be operational in time to support security for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.


Two Swedish delegations have recently visited the Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo in support of plans to develop a naval version of the JAS 39E/F Gripen fighter. A government team toured the ship in August, followed by a Saab-Embraer technical/engineering group in September.
Informally known as the Gripen M (Maritime or Marinha), the carrier-based version has been under study in parallel with the E/F since the program's early years. In 2013, in the run-up to Brazil's selection of the JAS 39E/F as its next fighter (with a contract due at year-end), Saab said that its company-funded study had brought the Gripen M to the point where it could be offered as a fixed-price development program, costing $250 million and taking five years from launch to production deliveries.
Saab and Brazil have already agreed that Embraer will lead the development of the two-seat JAS 39F, subject to the final contract, and development of the Gripen M could broaden that partnership. Ownership of an operational aircraft carrier is clearly a prerequisite for a Gripen M partner, and both India and Brazil have been approached.
Brazil's Sao Paulo carrier, formerly the French navy's Foch, has taken a long time to upgrade and restore to operational condition, but the Brazilian navy has persisted both with the ship and its current air wing, including a major upgrade of its AF-1 Skyhawk fighters with a new Elta radar and glass cockpit. One report suggests that Brazil expects the ship and its air wing to be operational in time to support security for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

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So Snowden and the NSA aside Sweden won buy sacrificing their manufacturing base? I glad Boeing lost in that case.

It's a multiple billion dollar deal just like the Eurofighter consortium and F-35 subcontractor system.

And I am yet to see any actual evidence on the F/A-18 being considered a very highly rated bid in the competition. Rafale looked like the politically attractive option while Gripen had the industry and military brass.