OSLO (Reuters) -Colombia will buy a fleet of JAS Gripen fighter aircraft made by Sweden’s Saab, Swedish public radio SR’s Ekot news broadcast reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. Saab’s share price rose on the news, trading up 3.0% in Stockholm by 1428 GMT. Saab did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It […]
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Colombia to buy Saab fighter aircraft, Swedish public radio reports
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OSLO (Reuters) -Colombia will buy a fleet of JAS Gripen fighter aircraft made by Sweden’s Saab, Swedish public radio SR’s Ekot news broadcast reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.
Saab’s share price rose on the news, trading up 3.0% in Stockholm by 1428 GMT.
Saab did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It was not immediately clear how many aircraft Colombia would order from the Swedish defence contractor.
Saab AB has sought to boost sales of the Gripen fighter in Latin America, including to Colombia and Peru from a production base in Brazil which was developed in partnership with Embraer SA.
Colombia has long planned to replace its ageing fleet of Israeli-made Kfir warplanes, but talks held in 2022 with Saab as well as French rival Dassault Aviation eventually collapsed, the country’s defence minister said early last year.
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Louise Rasmussen and Franklin Paul)