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Saturday, October 31, 2009

First Gripen C delivery imminent

Jas-39 GripenThe delivery process of South Africa's first Saab JAS39 Gripen C single-seat fighter, aircraft number SA-10, will get underway next week.

A source close to the distributor, Gripen International says Armscor, the state defence acquisition agency, will be sending a team to Linköping in Sweden next week in order to commence with the pre-acceptance inspections and flights.

Government in November 1998 announced that as part of the new defence equipment package, the SAAF would acquire the Saab-BAE Systems supplied Gripen fighter aircraft to replace the Denel/Dassault Cheetah C & D fighters then currently in service.

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