{"id":197334,"date":"2008-02-13T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/thais-sign-with-swedes-for-fighters-aewc\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T05:16:00","slug":"thais-sign-with-swedes-for-fighters-aewc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/thais-sign-with-swedes-for-fighters-aewc\/","title":{"rendered":"Thais Sign With Swedes For Fighters, AEW&#038;C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thai government has basically signed with the Swedes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Af79d79a1-d197-4c8d-9dab-cbbe71b73caa\">the backbone of their air force moving forward.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They have purchased, &#8220;six JAS 39C\/D gripen swing-role fighters, a Saab 340 Erieye airborne early warning &#038; control (AEW&#038;C) aircraft, a Saab 340 transport aircraft, and an air defense command &#038; control system from Sweden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sweden is actually doing a good job staking out the bottom of the current aerospace market, giving capabilities close to those of the big guys for less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thai government has basically signed with the Swedes for the backbone of their air force moving forward. They have purchased, &#8220;six JAS 39C\/D gripen swing-role fighters, a Saab 340 Erieye airborne early warning &#038; control (AEW&#038;C) aircraft, a Saab 340 transport aircraft, and an air defense command &#038; control system from Sweden.&#8221; Sweden is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197334"}],"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=197334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}