NATO eyes Saab GlobalEye to replace AWACS planes in historic shift from the U.S.

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14 points·vrganj··5 comments

This comes as Canada contemplates a mixed fleet of F-35 and Saab Gripen fighter jets, along with GlobalEye aicraft. Saab's pitch includes this concept of data sovereignty:

''Gripen data will also be housed here, securely within Canadian borders," Saab spokesperson Sierra Fullerton said. "With the fighter mission system, communications, and technical data all hosted in Canada, Gripen exceeds all industrial, security, and controlled goods requirements. With Gripen, the Royal Canadian Air Force will have full, independent control over aircraft, software, and sensitive data.''

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/saab-pitches-data...

the gripen also has a much lower total cost of ownership. As ukraine demonstrate, and now Iran, real local control of a region will be hyper local and filled with low cost drones. Expensive and high maintenance weapons are essentially first strike and regional defense.

We'll see Europe and other parts of the world slowly shed US tech piece by piece over years. Regardless of which party wins the next election, the damage is done. America has proved it's an unreliable ally and cannot be trusted.

> We'll see Europe and other parts of the world slowly shed US tech piece by piece over years

cough Linux (Foundation), Microsoft Windows and Azure, Google's Android and search, Apple's iOS cough

I'm still waiting for the EU's OS initiative.

What we're seeing here is that "America First" really means "America Alone" which really means "China and Russia win".

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