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2007-02-24 Europe

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Posted by Brett 2007-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 At lask check, SWEDEN is still in competition wid CHINA + FRANCE for internat Lite Combat Aircraft [LCA] sales. Looks like they all want to impress their customers + Mountain Babes by showing off their LCA battle scars.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-24 00:16|| 2007-02-24 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing easy about invading Finland. Ask the Russians.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2007-02-24 01:18|| 2007-02-24 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Gripen seems to always lose out in arms sales. They've always got a good product, but they seem totally oblivious to the idea that arms sales are also a method of strenthening alliances. Who wants to be allied with the Swedes?

Posted by gromky 2007-02-24 04:04|| 2007-02-24 04:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Anything that takes sales away from France is ok with me.

Posted by DanNY 2007-02-24 05:44|| 2007-02-24 05:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with DanNY.
"We can go to war, but only if we can bring a film crew". John Kerry tried it and got a lot of publicity.

Posted by plainslow 2007-02-24 08:02|| 2007-02-24 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds,
Chased by one Norwegian.
Ten thousand more ran to the shore,
In the battle of Copenhagen.

Posted by mrp 2007-02-24 08:25|| 2007-02-24 08:25|| Front Page Top

#7 ...Well, FWIW, Gripen is not a bad little bird - certainly the equal of the latest F-16s. But that's its problem: it's as good as an aircraft that we're getting ready to replace. The Swedes waited to long to get it built, and they're paying the price.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-24 08:28|| 2007-02-24 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 No blood for Ikea!

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-24 08:40|| 2007-02-24 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm surprised that they haven't been approached to build large passenger/cargo aircraft, since AirBus is a disaster and Boeing has over a 1,000 aircraft backlog for just this year alone.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-24 09:15|| 2007-02-24 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Sparingly=NEVER. LOL. When did Sweden last go to War? LOL.

They sent a medical unit to the First Gulf Conflict. Noted as the first military commitment outside Sweden since the Napoleonic Wars.

IIRC, Swedish civilian aircraft were purchased and militarized and used during the Biafran [Nigerian] Civil War.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-24 09:21|| 2007-02-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#11 The Swedish craft in Africa were the Tunnan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Tunnan

Sort of looks like the Cartman of fighter planes.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2007-02-24 09:42|| 2007-02-24 09:42|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm imagining the Swedish Chef covering Edwin Starr:

VER! It eeen't nutheeng boot a heertbreeker, Ver.
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
Freeend oonly tu zee underteker.
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
Oohhh! Ver is un inemy tu ell munkeend,
Zee thuooght ooff ver bloos my meend.
Bork bork bork!
Ver hes coosed unrest veethin zee yuoonger genereshun
Indoocshun zeen destroocshun...vhu vunts tu deee-a? Oohhh
VER!
guud Gud y'ell hooh
Vhet is it guud fur?
Ebsulootely nutheeng...sey it sey it SEY IT! VER!...uh
hooh yeeh hoo!
Vhet is it guud fur? Ebsulootely nutheeng...leestee tu me

Posted by Mike 2007-02-24 17:04|| 2007-02-24 17:04|| Front Page Top

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