{"id":191661,"date":"2009-07-12T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/12\/gripen-and-super-bug-go-with-local-manufacturers-to-win-brazil-competition\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T00:42:00","slug":"gripen-and-super-bug-go-with-local-manufacturers-to-win-brazil-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/12\/gripen-and-super-bug-go-with-local-manufacturers-to-win-brazil-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gripen and Super-Bug Go With Local Manufacturers to Win Brazil Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing is taking the more conventional route, with the company<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=an4rlqRq6eAk\">looking for manufacturers of components for the F\/A-18 E\/F<\/a>, while Saab is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=a_UsFTWI5upY\">offering to move as much as \u00bd of its production for the Gripen<\/a>, along with a significant partnership in marketing and development.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the Gripen is at a disadvantage here.  First, the aircraft will have to operate over large inhospitable stretches of the Amazon rain forest, which would favor a two engined design, and second, the G\/A-18, along with the Rafale, can be operated from Brazil&#8217;s aircraft carrier, but it&#8217;s clear that Saab is considers this order crucial to the continued existence of the program, and so it is moving very aggressively to win this competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing is taking the more conventional route, with the companylooking for manufacturers of components for the F\/A-18 E\/F, while Saab is offering to move as much as \u00bd of its production for the Gripen, along with a significant partnership in marketing and development. I think that the Gripen is at a disadvantage here. First, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}