Overview
- Dagens Nyheter reported that EU financing could be blocked because the cost share of non‑EU components in the JAS 39 Gripen E may exceed the bloc’s roughly 35% threshold.
- Estimates cited place non‑EU content at more than 50% by value, while Sweden’s FMV disputes the figure, saying the non‑EU share is under 35% when measured by the number of parts.
- Key Gripen E items come from outside the EU, including about 37% from the UK and the engine from General Electric in the United States, which would require US and UK export approvals or at least no objections.
- Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said deliveries could be partially financed using frozen Russian assets, a move Moscow has warned would trigger legal action.
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned Sweden’s plan and reiterated that Western arms shipments to Ukraine are lawful targets, as Sweden and Ukraine proceed only on a non‑binding letter of intent covering 100–150 aircraft with first deliveries projected in roughly three years.