WILL SAAB STAY OR GO?
With Airbus officially withdrawing the Eurofighter Typhoon from Canada's Future Fighter Capability Project (FFCP), the next obvious question is: "What about Saab?" A fair question. After all, what chance does a scrappy little fighter manufacturer like Saab have when a consortium consisting of aerospace giants Airbus, BAE, and Leonardo decides that Canada's FFCP is not worth the effort? With Eurofighter and Dassault now gone, the Gripen is now the sole "Eurocanard" left to compete with the American entries sold by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. How in the world can Saab possibly compete against these heavyweights? The word "heavyweight" here cannot be stressed enough. Both Boeing and LockMart enjoy a MASSIVE budgetary and geopolitical advantage over Saab. Not only that, but their fighters are much larger as well. In this case, both Saab and its fighter's relative size can be used as an advantage. As per the Canadian government...