Europe seeking to reduce ITAR exposure

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While action on this front is underway, the video shown here is not a real action but rather a theoretical thought exercise.
 
GTX said:
While action on this front is underway, the video shown here is not a real action but rather a theoretical thought exercise.
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True. SAAB has their work cut out for them.

Does the failure of the Gripen in Colombia foreshadow a shift in the United States' defense export strategy?

The chances of the JAS 39 Gripen in Colombia have been reduced to zero by Washington's refusal to authorize the re-export of the F414 turbojet engine
meta-defense.fr

I believe every SAAB fighter following the Rolls-Royce Avon-powered Draken has been powered by a US-derived engine. I expect the Swedes won't take to being painted into a corner without a plan to move forward.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Cd_6BWQSo
 
Saab has denied the allegation wrt the Colombia procurement.

Saab denies US veto on sale of Gripen fighter jet to Colombia - Air Data News

The acquisition of new fighter jets by the Colombian Air Force (FAC) has been a long and tortuous process. The country depends on Israeli IAI Kfir aircraft
www.airdatanews.com

But hard to say what the truth is. In any case, even a plausible threat of such things will certainly cause European arms manufacturers to strive for ITAR free as far as possible.
 
As for the video linked in the OP, yeah it's a light hearted thought exercise. However it does point to a real problem in that EU defense procurement and as a result logistics is terribly fragmented. While going as far as the video proposes is politically impossible for the foreseeable future, there's certainly a lot of realistic potential in procurement cooperation.
 
So it doesn't stay just at a theoretical level, I came across 7 keys to a successful ITAR compliance and it really explains in very simple terms what ITAR compliance means in practice.
 
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xavier939 said:
So it doesn't stay just at a theoretical level, I came across 7 keys to a successful ITAR compliance and it really explains in very simple terms what ITAR compliance means in practice.
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ITAR is not really that hard if one understands it. I have worked with ITAR for 20 odd years.
 
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