Mutta silti ne ovat vain alihankkijoita. Missä pihvi?
Edistystä. Nyt siis on päästy siihen vaiheeseen että Saab onkin yhteistyökumppani
Jos haluat käyttää ilmaisua vain alihankkija, niin se ei kuitenkaan jälleen tässä tapauksessa päde.
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Saab sätter hoppet till jätteinvestering i nytt plan
Tillsammans med Boeing har Saab under stort hemlighetsmakeri gjort en jättelik satsning på att ta fram ett nytt skolflygplan.
https://www.svd.se/saab-satter-hoppet-till-jatteinvestering-i-nytt-plan
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Saab är utvecklingen av det nya skolflygplanet,
T-X, ett av bolagets genom tiderna största projekt som tidvis sysselsatt 500–600 personer.
Boeing Needed International Help to Build New Training Jet
A decade of layoffs forced the US giant to seek engineering and manufacturing talent from partner Saabhttp://www.defenseone.com/business/...rnational-help-build-new-training-jet/131510/
http://www.defenseone.com/business/...rnational-help-build-new-training-jet/131510/
It seemed so all-American: a U.S. aviation giant unveiling its newest military jet to flashing lights and thumping heavy-metal music. But the sleek twin-tailed T-X — Boeing’s candidate to become the U.S. Air Force’s next pilot trainer — couldn’t have made it to the dolled-up St. Louis hangar without a good deal of international help.
For all its deep aviation heritage, the Chicago company needed a partner on the T-X bid. A decade of
engineering layoffs had left the venerable American firm without the workers needed to add the trainer competition to its existing workload, particularly with the Air Force requiring demonstration aircraft with a relatively quick turnaround. It also needed a way to do it
more cheaply than past endeavors.
So the maker of the F-15 Eagle and F/A-18 Super Hornet teamed up with Saab — builder of the
Gripen 4.5-generation fighter jet — to develop a T-X candidate. And less than three years after the two firms announced their
partnership, they have now unveiled their first two aircraft, which are expected to fly by year’s end. That’s pretty fast for an American defense firm.
While officials from neither company would say just what parts of the plane were developed in Europe, Saab is believed to be manufacturing large portions of it. In June, a large Russian cargo plane believed to be carrying sections of the new aircraft
flew from Sweden to the U.S.
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The T-X program is just part of a growing Boeing-Saab relationship; the two are also collaborating on an artillery version of Boeing’s Small Diameter Bomb. But the trainer effort shows how big American defense firms have difficulty manufacturing new aircraft quickly and must rely on more nimble companies, particularly when budgets are tight.
Now that its first two T-X planes have come together, Boeing appears to be putting an American face on the project. A press release distributed on Tuesday showed Saab’s logo under Boeing’s, but mentioned the Swedish firm only once. In the nearly nine-minute promo
video, Saab is not mentioned at all. A photo of the plane being assembled shows a large American flag draped on the plant’s back wall.
Boeing officials say they are not playing down Saab’s role. Boeing spokeswoman Deborah VanNierop noted that Saab President and CEO Håkan Buskhe participated in the rollout ceremony and that other company officials were also on hand.
“Saab is not in a backseat role,” VanNierop said. “This is very much a partnership.”
