NATO plans to replace AWACS with Saab GlobalEye jets, sources say
NATO to replace US-built AWACS with Saab GlobalEye, sources say
NATO picks Swedish jet over Boeing rival, sources say
AWACS replacement could deepen Trump-NATO tensions
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So US criticizes NATO for not buying Boeing's E-7 AWAC surveillance jets AFTER the Pentagon decides not to buy them either.
I'm glad to see the rest of the world continuing to divest from the United States. Free market, babeeee!
No, the free market is only good when I personally profit off of it. Competition is communism.
So we are watching NATO trying to get away from US technology and dominance to be functional when the US fails to show up in an emergency?
NATO just wants the one without the remote kill switch in the baby hands of a belligerent narcissist.
I thought Saab was already decided a month ago to be the current standard for NATO?!
AFAIK the Boeing AWAC is discontinued?
Nope. That was rumours, rumours which was denied as having been decided by NATO. Same as this "we have sources". Some news rooms got little over exited and reported it as hard fact already done decision, when it wasn't. which prompted/forced NATO/national leaderships to issue denial of No such thing has been done. Though usually with ofcourse discussions of future development and improvement is always happening
Meaning mostly likely, it is proposal under preparation. No official decision made. Something else could theoretically be chosen as alternative or fully different posture even.
However it is atleast to me hard to see what would be the alternative. SAAB has a ready proven, already in use product. Where as others have conceptual bids. Minus ofcourse the Boeing Wedgetail, but well we know how that is going.
Good - US is highly unreliable! Sweden is reliable.