Fuck yeah. Supporting Sweden’s sovereign aviation program is the next best thing we can do to still having our own. Killing the avro looks once again like the huge kowtow that it was to US imperialism. Were lucky some democratic nations have maintained their own independent arms industries from NATO and we need to start to develop our own, yesterday
I’d love to see how history were to unfold had we never cancelled the avro Arrow.
I mean I get that the cold war was changing and jet interceptors were about to become obsolete, but still. Something like 15000 people lost their jobs overnight and how many of them went south looking for work?
Fuck yeah. Supporting Sweden’s sovereign aviation program is the next best thing we can do to still having our own. Killing the avro looks once again like the huge kowtow that it was to US imperialism. Were lucky some democratic nations have maintained their own independent arms industries from NATO and we need to start to develop our own, yesterday
The GlobalEye is a retrofitted Bombardier plane. So we’re supporting our own domestic aerospace industry as well.
Sweden was apart from NATO until recently.
Exactly
I’d love to see how history were to unfold had we never cancelled the avro Arrow.
I mean I get that the cold war was changing and jet interceptors were about to become obsolete, but still. Something like 15000 people lost their jobs overnight and how many of them went south looking for work?