Sweden’s Gripen fighter, the plane marketed as Europe’s most independent jet, runs on an American-made GE engine, and that fact just became a live national-security question. After Washington quietly throttled Ukraine’s Starshield satellite service and Portugal raised fears that an F-35 could be shut off remotely, we dig into exactly how much control Sweden has actually clawed back over the engine inside its own fighter.


volvo aerospace built the engine on license for like 25 years, so the brits probably got the plans when they purchased it.
Not the latest engine though. That’s a fully US engine.
how hard can it be