Nilgiri
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Opinions aside, I do not think that anyone had compared Bangladesh to Sweden's weapons manufacturing capability
Can of worms got opened by calling Gripen/Sweden as having "no balls" by your beloved iajdani.
I believe @TopCat main point was that nobody buys the Gripen since it isn't much of a 'game changer'.
It was a stupid, baseless point and the Gripen is easily a great aircraft.
Of-course, there are countries that use the Gripen.
And they got them for free since nobody bought it? Thats mighty generous of Sweden!
And there are countries that have rejected it in favor of other planes.
Has nothing to do with the "balls" of the aircraft system. Different requirements are best met by different aircraft in the world market and each client has the right to choose from the options.
The current government of Bangladesh do possess a lot of money (thanks to rigid tax returns). They can (if they want) easily buy the necessary Dollars or even Euros to buy any weapon system available to them. But, they aren't.
Again nothing to do with iajdani's statement. Don't know why he picks fights with regular passer-bys for no reason.
My post was more addressed to him. For BD defence purchases, nothing really major has been acquired in quantities of note, so lets wait and see how the future shapes up.