SAAB Gripen NG

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Saab is on track to sign a contract with Brazil to provide its air force with the Gripen NG multirole fighter, following the nation's selection of the type for a 36-aircraft purchase in December 2013.

Speaking on 23 October, chief executive Håkan Buskhe said an agreement should be signed “in the near future”.

“The negotiations with Brazil regarding Gripen NG (Gripen E/F) move forward according to plan, and the ambition is to reach an agreement in the near future,” Buskhe states, as part of the Swedish company's year-to-date financial results release.

On 18 December 2013, Brazilian defence minister Celso Amorim and air force commander Gen Juniti Saito declared Saab the winner of the F-X2 fighter contest. It was also announced that the negotiation phase would take 10-12 months to complete