A Saab Gripen E-series fighter aircraft in Linkoping, Sweden, in October, during a display for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The company's CEO confirms it is in talks to build the jet in Canada.

Saab AB chief executive officer Micael Johansson confirmed on Thursday that his company is in talks with the federal government and Bombardier Inc. BBD-B-T to build Saab’s Gripen fighter jet under licence in Canada, which he said could create 10,000 jobs in the country and spawn a research network to develop other aircraft, including drones.

“If Canada wants to create sovereign capabilities, not only buying planes, we are prepared to do that tech transfer for Canada,” he said in an interview at Saab AB’s headquarters in Stockholm. “We are talking collaboration.”

The talks are to cont

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