never did
apparently everyone including swedes think india is gold mine, and they dont want to make india unhappy, once they are given a troll like what french got, they will come to senses
The AWACS affair has nothing to do with India.
I know people working for SAAB and discussed it with them some time ago,
and noone was interested in spending time in Pakistan.
Did Pakistan offer to ship them to Sweden for repair?
For people wondering why Sweden refused this link should help (
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/saab-kan-fa-ny-order-men-teknikerna-tvekar-6404162). Its in Swedish but translate using google. Basically the gist is that in 2013, no engineers from SAAB wanted to travel to Pakistan given the security situaiton.
Things post zarb e azb have changed now however. On my flight to Lahore earlier this year, I met a Swedish guy working for Telenor. So as things stabilize in the country, the security factor will diminish. Either way Pakistan did a good job of repairing it on its own
Translated:
Today's industry has in recent days revealed that three radar plane model Saab 2000 defense group Saab previously sold to Pakistan seriously injured in a terrorist attack.On August 16, 2012, a group of Taliban fighters into an air base Kamra, several mil outside Pakistan's capital Islamabad. DI say they attacked three Saab 2000 aircraft, which was equipped with the Swedish-developed radar system Erieye. The plan had been manufactured by Saab in Linköping and the Erieye radar built by Saab in Gothenburg.Reportedly DI destroyed one of the planes completely while the other two received serious injuries. Military of Pakistan stated the same day that a military aircraft injured in a rocket attack.
On August 21, the country's defense minister said that one of its Saab 2000 aircraft, the Saab 2000 AEW & C (Airborne Early Warning & Control) has been lost. Pakistan bought in 2006 four Saab 2000 aircraft from Sweden for more than 7 billion, of which three with Erieye radar. The contract was then carried out with the help of Swedish government export credits. The first plane was delivered in 2009 and the remaining years 2010-2012. According to DI, the company after the attack now count on new deliveries of maintenance and spare parts to Pakistan, worth 1-2 billion.
Meanwhile, sources for new technology that Saab has been difficult to recruit engineers who want to work in the terror stricken country because of security risks there. Foreigners who have been active in Pakistan has previously been targeted by the Taliban.
The country has been in was also rocked by bombings since militant Sunni Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban carried out attacks. Sebastian Carlsson, Head of Saab, would not disclose anything about the situation in business discussions with Pakistan. -Bolaget Never comment on any future deals, he says. As to the question whether he can confirm that it has been difficult to recruit staff to Pakistan, he said that the company always needs to hire and that this year needs to hire 500 new people. The latter is mainly due to the large order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration on new fighter aircraft, the Gripen E.
2007 stopped the ISP, the ISP, arms exports from Sweden to Pakistan, citing violence and unrest in the country. While the Authority accepts deliveries made as a result of earlier weapons contracts. In 2012 was carried out according to the ISP's own statistics five deliveries due to Pakistan at a total value of 615 million.
