Hello Swedish friends.

I’ve been told before that Sweden cannot supply the Gripen fighters to Ukraine due to the country being at war.

While I understand the purposes and reasonings behind such a law, I was wondering if there is much of any talk within Sweden of changing this. Is it something the average Swedish citizen would have an opinion on? Is it debated?

I recently read that Ukrainians will be undergoing fighter training in Sweden. Does that mean the policy is potentially changing, and they will be receiving these much better-suited jets than the ones we Americans can sell them?

Thank you.

  • @Zpiritual
    4•1 year ago

    We’ll see, this government has generally been pretty low-key about their involvement in supporting Ukraine so far. There’s not really a public debate about the arms supply as a result and as far as the “no exports to countries at war” clause that is pretty much obsolete at this point.

    As you said they are training Ua gripen pilots so I guess they are at least considering it, but then the problem becomes that there isn’t a huge number of Gripen in existence unlike the US planes.