As part of its pitch to lure Canada to buy Gripen-E fighter jets, Saab has offered to establish a secure, sovereign data centre in Montreal to house critical, top-secret mission data and intelligence, CBC News has learned.
The company is framing it as a “unique advantage” in the battle to convince the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney to limit the purchase of U.S.-manufactured F-35s, which have all of their data stored at a Lockheed Martin centre in Fort Worth, Texas.
The purpose-built Saab data centre “will host all work on the fighter mission system,” Saab spokesperson Sierra Fullerton confirmed in a recent statement to CBC News.
The centre would be staffed by Canadians who possess “Canada/U.S. security clearance,” presumably to handle data related to the defence of North America through the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).
The F35 is already getting shot down it is a busted plane. Radar stealth is no longer the way to hide.
SSC would still find a way to make everything in it dependent on AWS
It seems that even countries with their own domestic aeroplane manufacturing are betting on Saab., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Operators
On that note, didn’t Canada used to have local industry a long time ago?
Avro Arrow is a legendary bit of canadiana. It was scrapped and replaced with some US missile defense agreement.
Now it’s ancient history but there’s a good story there and even a movie or 2 about it
With the benifit of hindsight, scrapping the project was a good idea. Not finding new work for the engineering and science team was not.
Killed by the ironically named Progressive Conservatives, who basically are a party of US interests in Canada.
That sounds like a good idea in of itself anyways. Fuck the F35
The Saab deal is the way better deal for Canada. Even trump is buying his ballroom steel from Europe.
