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Peru Abandoned Gripen for F-16 Block 70 as Political Collapse, Impeachment Fallout, and US Strategic Pressure Reshaped Its Fighter Choice

Peru’s decision to abandon the Saab Gripen E in favour of the Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 represents one of the most consequential fighter procurement reversals in modern Latin American defence history. What began as a technically grounded, cost-conscious modernisation...
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How India’s HAL Tejas Mk2 is Poised to Challenge Sweden’s Saab Gripen E for the Global Light-Combat Aircraft Market

Low-cost, 4.5-generation capability and the fight for export share In a global fighter-jet market that is increasingly bifurcating between ultra-expensive stealth platforms and lower­-cost multirole warplanes, the light and “medium-weight” 4.5-generation segment is seeing renewed interest. In that battleground, India’s...