{"id":389362,"date":"2025-10-10T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/?p=389362"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:31:38","slug":"saab-and-swedish-armed-forces-extend-gripen-maintenance-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/saab-and-swedish-armed-forces-extend-gripen-maintenance-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Saab and Swedish Armed Forces extend Gripen maintenance agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saab and the Swedish Armed Forces have extended their existing agreement for the maintenance and support of Gripen fighter aircraft. The new order, valued at approximately SEK 4 billion, covers support and maintenance services for Gripen C\/D and Gripen E variants. Deliveries under the agreement are scheduled for 2026\u20132027.<\/p>\n<p>The contract also allows the Swedish Armed Forces to place additional orders for maintenance and support services through 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Under the extended agreement, Saab will continue to provide technical system support, spare parts, repair services, training, and other work required for the operation of Gripen aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contract extension means that we will continue to ensure a very high availability for Gripen and deliver the support the Swedish Air Force needs to maintain a high level of readiness,\u201d said Lars Tossman, Head of Saab\u2019s Aeronautics business area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saab and the Swedish Armed Forces have extended their existing agreement for the maintenance and support of Gripen fighter aircraft. The new order, valued at approximately SEK 4 billion, covers support and maintenance services for Gripen C\/D and Gripen E variants. Deliveries under the agreement are scheduled for 2026\u20132027. The contract also allows the Swedish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":389370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2272,4127,2359,58726,4509,4179,5390],"tags":[58988,59186],"class_list":["post-389362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-air-en","category-all-news","category-companies-en","category-defense-industry","category-headlines-en-tr","category-saab-en","category-sweden","tag-saab-en-2","tag-sweden-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/defensehere.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}