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Gripen NG
Assembly of the new Brazilian super fighter begins
José PEDRO M Ramos
7/7/2020
The Swedish fighter Saab JAS-39 Gripen, a super war machine with few, has just started the production of component parts for the phenomenal plane.
The company responsible for the activities is SAM (Saab Aeronáutica Montagens) located in São José dos Campos (SP) and will assemble the tail section and the front fuselage of the monoplace version of the military jet.
The factory's production will not be limited to these parts, but in the future it will also include the assembly of aerodynamic and control surfaces, rear fuselage section, wing box and front biplace summer fuselage.
The company, however, is not the main integrator of the model, but Embraer, which will receive parts from SAM and a crowd of other suppliers, now assembling and shaping the superb plane.
The Gripen fighter, winner of the FX-2 bid to supply the new air superiority fighter for Brazil is in fact a superb aircraft, one of the best today, with exceptional avionics, great maneuverability and versatility that makes it capable of operating ground attack missions and others, not being restricted to the field of air superiority.
The program initially provides for the supply of 36 aircraft but contemplates the possibility of expanding the order later.
The FX2 program aimed to not only provide the FAB with a modern aircraft, but also to obtain extensive technology transfer and even licensed production for possible air forces from the South American continent.
The bidding process, still started in the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government as an FX program, was revised and expanded to the FX2 standard in the government of President Luis Inácio Lula da silva in 2006, being won in 2013 by the Swedish company SAAB and its modern Gripen model.
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