They still lost high profile, lucrative fighter jet market here. Also AFAIK MoD and AU already decide on SAAB product for AEW.
Korean production line is ready and advance, ours not.
Bold 1: aren't high profile enough and It will slashing their fighter jet market here for foreseeable future.
Bold 2: not contributing to American jobs opportunity.
We need some sort of tie with Superpower Uncle to face big red from north. And our Air Force is much more keen to adopt US jets more than French actually (that Alman's sentinel post).
Bold: impossible. Even RoKAF first unit will be received that year.
If LM with some miracle win over Dassault, I just hope we can get SCALP equivalent from US, and permission to integrate turkish missile just like @Philips suggesting.
OOT a little bit.
https://www.indomiliter.com/sosok-kapal-selam-misterius-yuan-class-type-039c-terekam-secara-candid/
That conning tower shape looks like this one:
Saab a26
Chinese have Sweden connection?
At this point do you still confident enough LM proposal can beat Dassault?
08 udah cinta mati kayaknya...
And his 20 billion requests already got approved.
I think the one you can beat is actually Boeing.