| Thailand to buy more Gripen |
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 Thailand will double today's fleet of Gripen fighter planes and buy six more planes by FMV. Thailand has in the past, two years ago, bought six Gripen fighters and peripherals. Now you go on and complement its fleet of Swedish fighter aircraft with an additional six aircraft of the model JAS 39 Gripen C. Moreover buy yet another copy of the Swedish surveillance radar system 340 Erieye and the Swedish anti-ship missile system, 15th both the manufacturer Saab. The deal was signed today in Stockholm, Gunnar Holmgren, director general of the Defiance Materiel Administration, FMV and Itthaporn Subhawong head of the Royal Thai Air Force. - With the stock that the Thai Air Force will be available in the future delivery of phase one and two will Thailand get a very qualified air defenses with both monitoring and network-based operation capability, "says Gunnar Holmgren, in a press release from FMV. Under the agreement, Sweden will provide training and logistical support to the Thai Air Force for years to come. The plan is scheduled to be delivered to Thailand in two years. -For commercial reasons, kept the price as Thailand may pay secret, says Sofia Krigsman, a political expert at the Department of Defense. |
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