Massive double blow to Rafale fighter jet, Saab Gripen beats French machine in…, Will India buy lethal fighter jet from…?
As opposed to the $4.02 billion for the Saab Gripen, Brazil would have reportedly had to shell out around $8 billion for Dassault's Rafale and hence opted for the Swedish fighter jet.
The French Rafale fighter jet has suffered a critical setback within the South American nation of Colombia after it announced that this will replace its rising outdated Israeli fighter jets with Saab Gripen fighter jets. Colombia has now turn out to be the 2d South American nation after Brazil to decide on the Saab Gripen over the French Rafale fighter jet. Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed this in a statement on social media dwelling X on April 2. He announced the assortment of the Saab Gripen-E/F fighter aircraft and acknowledged that the nation has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Swedish govt.
This announcement by the President of Colombia has arrive at a time when the nation’s Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez had acknowledged that the nation goes to command the aquire of most recent fighter jets very soon. He had told the nation several alternatives, alongside side F-16, Swedish Gripen and French Rafale. Though at that point he did no longer sigh what number of aircraft the nation desires to aquire, nonetheless in 2023 he indicated that there is an method to aquire 16 aircraft. For which a budget of three.65 billion dollars was disbursed.
The Colombian Air Power for the time being has no longer up to twenty primitive Israeli fighter jets left. Subsequently, their skill to counter threats has lowered considerably. Colombia faces the menace of bad gangs relish FARC, ELN and Clan del Golfo.
As antagonistic to this, the nation additionally has a disturbing relationship with Venezuela, with which it shares a long border. Broken-down Colombian Defense Minister Ivan Velazquez published in early 2023 that negotiations were started with Saab and Dassault in 2022 to aquire a suppose-of-the-artwork fighter aircraft, nonetheless these talks failed. It was later learned that the US had provided to promote the F-16 Viper (Block 70/72).
It now remains to be seen if India will probably be attracted to buying these lethal weapons.
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