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Sweden is an outlier as a smaller nation with its own indigenous fighter aircraft and airborne early warning platform and is now looking at how local company Saab Aerospace can meet the plans for a collaborative combat aircraft.

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The agreement supports F-15 production, modernisation and sustainment for the US and seven international operators.

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