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Saab’s public offer for Canada is for 88 Gripen E (single-seat) and Gripen F (two-seat) fighters with a “Made in Canada” industrial package and local assembly option; Saab says initial deliveries coul...
Canada has not yet "chosen" the Saab Gripen over the Lockheed Martin F‑35; all provided reporting and analyses describe Canada *reconsidering* or *weighing* the Gripen E as an alternative to a previou...
Defence Scheme No. 1 was a 1920–21 Canadian contingency prepared by Lieutenant‑Colonel James Sutherland “Buster” Brown that called for immediate, surprise cross‑border raids into the northern United S...
Canada has not announced a definitive delivery timeline for Saab’s Gripen to the Royal Canadian Air Force; contemporary reporting and Saab’s Canada-focused materials indicate only that Canada is activ...
Canada’s reopened fighter competition has been shaped as much by politics, export controls and industrial-offset promises as by aircraft performance: leaked Royal Canadian Air Force scoring gave the F...
Official, public “after-action” or formal lessons-learned products explicitly about Gripen–F‑35 integration are not identified in the available reporting; most material is media coverage of Canada’s p...
Some countries that operate or considered Saab’s Gripen have at times reopened discussions about buying or keeping F-35s, or have debated mixing fleets — most visibly Canada’s 2025 reassessment of its...
Countries that prioritize low operating cost, dispersed/“austere” basing and high availability often favor the Saab Gripen over the F‑35; advocates highlight Gripen’s lower sortie cost and design for ...