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It aims to find a replacement for the Nordic country\u2019s fleet of F-18 Hornets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The usual suspects of Western suppliers responded by the April 30 deadline: Saab with its Gripen; Dassault with the Rafale; Lockheed Martin with its F-35; Boeing\u2019s F-18 Super Hornet\u2019 and the Eurofighter, made by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four vendors released statements by deadline day, each praising their wares (Dassault tends to keep quiet about such things). They promised industrial-participation packages of varying degrees that would boost job growth in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden\u2019s entry of the Gripen fighter is notable from a regional and political perspective. The country\u2019s top officials have publicly assisted Saab in making the case for extending the Sweden-Finland alliance into a de facto, singular air force of Gripens that commanders could interchangeably use across both nations to ward off an invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saab also has thrown into its offer two GlobalEye early warning aircraft in addition to its proposed fleet of 64 Gripens, company officials said during an online briefing last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anna Wieslander, a Stockholm-based defense analyst with the Atlantic Council, said Sweden\u2019s political promise of linking neighboring air forces through a common aircraft is likely to be taken seriously by the Finnish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you look at the way the operational defense cooperation has evolved since 2015, it\u2019s interesting to see where that could lead,\u201d Wieslander said. 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