Published September 09,2024
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Sweden will ship its seventeenth help bundle to Ukraine with additional navy help totalling 4.6 billion Swedish crowns ($443 million), Defence Minister Pal Jonson stated on Monday.
The new bundle will embody ammunition for infantry combating automobiles already donated by Sweden, in addition to purchases that will facilitate a switch of Gripen fighter jets sooner or later, although no such switch has been selected but.
“We want to have the ability to donate Gripens to Ukraine at a possible later stage,” Jonson instructed a press convention.
Jonson stated help included further fight boats, missiles and camouflage gear in addition to funding to help defence procurements for Ukraine. The measures had been determined in shut collaboration with Kyiv.
About half of the worth of the bundle consisted of components wanted in Sweden’s manufacturing of the newest mannequin Gripen E fighters for its personal air pressure. This would imply Sweden wouldn’t as beforehand deliberate must cannibalize its current C/D fashions as a part of the improve, permitting the older jets to transferred to Ukraine at a attainable future date.
“At present, it is not on the cards to transfer JAS Gripens to Ukraine as this would disturb the introduction of F-16s,” the federal government stated in a press release.
Source: www.anews.com.tr