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Swedish Weapons Exports Fall
Sweden exported 30 percent less weapons in 2012 compared with the record high amount of 2011, show new figures from the National Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls. The countries that buy the most Swedish weapons are India, Saudi Arabia, France, Pakistan and Thailand. The total value of the 2012 exports was just under SEK [...]
Swedish Government Split Over Defence Spending
As the annual conference on Swedish security wound up in the northern community of Sälen, a crack within the center-right government seems to have emerged. Society and Defence, or “Folk och Försvaret” is the annual conference bringing together the Swedish security and defence policy community, from politicians and the military to non-governmental organizations, as well [...]
Swedish Military Needs At Least 60 New Fighter Jets
Sweden needs at least 60 Gripen combat aircraft in the future, the Swedish Armed Forces Supreme Commander Sverker Göransson, told a parliamentary hearing today. “Sweden needs 60-80 fighter aircraft to meet the technical and operational threat scenario, “says Armed Forces Supreme Commander Sverker Goranson. The government has asked for a parliamentary mandate to buy 40-60 [...]
Sweden to Pay for New JAS Gripen Jets
Sweden will foot the bill for a fleet of new JAS Gripen fighter jets, despite a previous parliamentary decision not to fund the project without foreign involvement, according to a coalition party spokesman. The Swedish military faces the prospect of major cutbacks to fund the JAS Gripen ‘Next Generation’ jets, also known as the ‘Super [...]
Government Split Over Cuts to Swedish Military
The Swedish armed forces will have to pay for the next generation of “super-JAS” warplanes without any new grant from the government, meaning that cuts in other areas are inevitable, reports Swedish Radio News. Svenska Dagbladet has seen a leaked budget memo from the government saying that no new grant will be awarded. Peter Hultquist, [...]
Crimes Suspected In Swedish-Saudi Weapons Project
Swedish prosecutors suspect crimes may have been committed by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), which devised secret plans to help construct a weapons factory in the dictatorship of Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, prosecutors announced a preliminary investigation into the affair. Two weeks ago, Swedish radio news revealed that former FOI employees founded a front [...]
Sweden: All Parties Informed of Saudi Arms Plant
Politicians from all parties were informed in 2010 about plans to help Saudi Arabia build a weapons factory, according to leaked government documents. The documents details how many and which type of factory buildings were planned, which products would be manufactured, and which types of explosives would be made. It further states that the Defence [...]
Swedish Government Hides Plan for Saudi Weapons Plant
Confidential documents show Sweden is in the advanced planning stages of helping totalitarian state Saudi Arabia build an advanced weapons factory, Swedish Radio News has revealed. The project, nicknamed Simoom (the word for a high-temperature desert wind, derived from the Arabic “smm”, which means “to poison”), began in 2007 and is being led by the [...]
Sweden Proposes Common Nordic Air Space
Defending a common Nordic air space may be the solution to keeping military costs down in Sweden. The Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Sverker Göranson, suggested this measure when the annual Society and Defence conference got underway in Sälen Sunday. A common Nordic air space would mean that Finland and Norway would be [...]
