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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

You do realize that the Gripen Fighter Jet uses General Electric Engines ... USA still has control over Sweden's Gripen Fighter Jets ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    USK

    I sure do hope British politics doesn't take a turn for the batshit insane over the next few years.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Well then they are fucked. Maybe France's Snecma is an option and the Japanese also have engines. Pretty much everything else is Licensed copy of American engine or Chinese/Russian which are obvious no.

    I think turkey was looking into making their own jet engines. But Erdogan Turkey is about as good of an option as trump USA.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    they were originally made in sweden on license by volvo aerospace. now that's part of bae systems, but the entire thing is modular and if worse comes to worst, the drawings are probably still around.

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