Austria’s Freedom Party wants to buy the Saab Gripen

Two parties within Austria’s coalition government are split over whether to keep flying the Eurofighter or buy new Gripen fighters instead.

JAS 39 Gripen lyfter fran F17 i Kallinge Sverige (1)
Johannes Jansson/norden.org [CC BY 2.5 dk]


The far-right Freedom Party prefers to buy the Gripen while the conservatives wants to keep the Eurofighter.

Newspaper Die Presse reports that both options would cost the same to taxpayers.

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