Canada Hasn’t Ordered Gripen Jets—Saab’s 40-Aircraft Threshold Is the Number to Watch

Sorry, F-35: Saab Is Offering Canada 6,000 Jobs to Buy the JAS 39 Gripen. The Number Is Now as High as 10,000, and Ottawa Still Has Not Decided.

Roughly 10 major industrial partners and 250 suppliers would build the aircraft. Saab estimates 50 percent of the JAS 39 Gripen and GlobalEye work would land in Quebec, 26 percent in Ontario, 14 percent in Western Canada and 10 percent in Atlantic Canada. A separate July 17 agreement puts pilot training with Montreal's CAE.

Canada Hasn’t Ordered Gripen Jets—Saab’s 40-Aircraft Threshold Is the Number to Watch

Saab AB does not have a Canadian Gripen fighter order, and Ottawa has not opened a new competition for one. The investable development is more precise: Saab has turned an abstract alternative into a detailed industrial offer, saying an order for at least 40 Gripen E jets would justify a start-to-finish Canadian assembly line involving…