- Without Brazil as a partner is Saab's outlook on the world market are uncertain. Brazil's choice of fighter aircraft will be critical for the continuation of the Gripen program, "says Robert Hewson to new technologies.

Half of a jet marked is perfectly OK
He argues that a Swedish-Brazilian Gripen is much better equipped to succeed than a Swedish Gripen, not least in the ongoing, massive Indian procurement of hundreds of new fighter aircraft.

- The Saab and Sweden, it is about the prospect of 50 percent of a big market in Latin America and Asia with a Swedish-Brazilian Gripen NG in front of 100 percent of a rapidly shrinking market for a Swedish Gripen, "says Robert Hewson.

Norway revealed
He is a well known and respected journalist for the British Jane's Publishing Group.

He has followed the development of the JAS 39 Gripen, the Swedish Air Force and the Swedish aerospace industry since 1993, has been a frequent visitors and Sweden reported on the Gripen in both Jane's Air Launched Weapons, and in Jane's Defense Weekly.

It was Robert Hewson revealed as hollow equality in the Norwegian government reported that the Gripen NG would be more expensive than Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The article, published in Jane's Defense Weekly was the "Best Breaking News Story 2009" and Robert Hewson won the prize Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award.

France's political machinery
Robert Hewson has always maintained that the Gripen NG is a fantastic fighter, which is significantly cheaper to purchase and service than its competitors.

- U.S. and France have a superior "political firepower" - a political machine that Sweden lacks, "says Robert Hewson.