Saab calculates Gripen's manufacturing mathematics
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Fighter jet programmes regularly come up against the wall that is political decision-making and Saab’s Gripen variants are no stranger to this. However, should sales potential turn into programme realisation, the company will have to tackle another challenge; production line growth.
As its Gripen E testing programme continues in earnest in 2019, Jonas Hjelm, head of business area aeronautics, told delegates at Saab’s annual Gripen briefing, that this
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