SVT video of Saab's nEUROn fuselage for new UCAV; Will Brazilian President Rousseff ditch French and buy Saab's Gripen or Boeing F-18 instead for $4B?

SVT Rapport - Här är Saabs nya stridsflygplan
Here's Saab's new fighter plane.
http://svtplay.se/v/2307433/har_ar_saabs_nya_stridsflygplan

This video ran on Wednesday night's Swedish TV (SVT) thirty-minute national newscast and has some English but is mostly in Swedish.

This particular video is available on the SVT Play website until January 25, 2012, and if you are curious enough to want to watch the entire newscast, which features an interesting report on security in Moscow -at 10:56- following the Chechen suicide bombing last week at the airport, you can see it at: http://svtplay.se/v/2307476/rapport/25_1_19_30_-_textat?cb,a1366518,1,f,-1/pb,a1366516,1,f,-1/pl,v,,2308531/sb,p103263,1,f,-1

I've selected the version of the newscast that has closed-captioning so that you can see what some of the words you are hearing actually look like, as it's more logical than it sounds. You can watch the newscast vid until Tuesday February 1st, and as always, I recommend that you hit the Full screen button on the bottom right marked "Fullskärm."
The story on the fighter plane comes on at 19:39.

Saab delivers nEUROn fuselage to Dassault Aviation

http://www.shephard.co.uk/news/uvonline/saab-delivers-neuron-fuselage-to-dassault-aviation/8187/

Also read this story on the $4 billion sale of 36 fighter jets to Brazil from France that may be on the verge of collapsing under new Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the possibility that Saab or Boeing will swoop-in and take it from Dassault, lock, stock and lavalier.

"Rousseff has indicated she wants to review the political agreement between the two heads of state and "start over" the evaluation process that pitted the Rafale against Boeing Co.'s (BA) F-18 and the Gripen made by Sweden's Saab AB (SAAB-B.SK)"

Dassault Workers' Bonuses Hinge On Rafale Export Deal
January 25, 2011, 10:29 A.M. ET
By David Pearson of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110125-710700.html


Gripen's current website -in English- at http://www.gripen.com/en/index.htm is moving to http://www.saabgroup.com/gripen

Photos of Gripen is at:
http://www.saabgroup.com/Air/Gripen-Fighter-System/gripen-downloads/Image-bank/

There's a video in Portuguese on Saab's website about their efforts and capabilities there:
http://www.saabgroup.com/gripen-for-brazil

Here's the Saab JAS 39 Gripen in Flight [HD]


Saab JAS 39 Gripen (Griffin) Fighter in Flight [HD]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSJ4i8IExjY

Interesting May 21st Swedish TV story on boat dumping in South Florida

Meant to post this when I first saw it about three weeks

ago, as I have not seen anyone in South Florida TV do

this topic yet, which has elements of the economy

+ environment + public safety, esp. for night navigation.

It's the sort of news story which, with the proper amount

of time and research, could cause people to say when

they see it, "You know the economy is bad when..."

-------------------------------

Eva Elmsäter reports for SVT from Marathon Key

on some dreams that have come a cropper,

Length: 02:26

Båtar dumpas i krisens kölvatten

URL is http://www.playrapport.se/#/video/1565964

The SVT website, http://svt.se/ is truly amazing,

in that it is colorful but not overwhelming, and has

good graphics that don't assault your senses.

Their main news homepage is here, http://svtplay.se/c/96255/nyheter

which also includes Rapport, the evening news,

tonight's at http://svtplay.se/t/103261/rapport ,

along with the various dayparts and regional versions

for local news, weather and sports.

Obviously, without commercials, they have more

stories to run in their alloted 28 minutes.

Presentation-wise, the website as a whole is just

like the stores of Swedish retailer H&M in that

respect -first two in FL is opening in Orlando-

cool and very inviting and you want to wander

around and see what's what.

See my previous post on H&M from May 12th:

Swedish retailer H&M plans 2 stores for...not South

Florida, but Central Florida -where all the Svenskaflickor shophttp://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/swedish-retailer-h-plans-2-stores.html

It's also very intuitive over time, since I watch

the SVT news pretty much every night, and

if I miss a day or two, I'm able to catch-up with

stories over the weekend and can see what their

editorial choices were regarding story placement.

Since they are also listed in the order of

presentation, I can not only see which stories

they felt were the most important, but also skip

the ones I'm not interested in.

I'd love to see local Miami TV stations offer

that chron order on a webpage, since presently,

when you go to their webpage, you are presented

with recent news stories but don't have any idea

of where they ran during the particular newscast?

Just a thought.

I should also mention that the quality of the

video is great over my computer, frankly,

as good as if not better than most of the video

I watch on websites of U.S. nets.

They use Meta, their so-called 'secret weapon'.

http://svt.se/2.10775/1.843567/the_meta_system_-_the_secret_svt_weapon?lid=puff_843570&lpos=lasMer

Tonight's top news story is that a letter of intent

has been signed that will give a viable future to

Saab, following negotiations that involved

Norwegian investors and will result in Swedish

luxury car manufacturer Koenigsegg buying

Saab from General Motors, beating out two

other bidders.

Nothing like having access to the primary

source for every other report on this subject!

For reasons that I'll explain here some time in

the future, I'm very partial to both Saab and

Volvo, in the latter's case, the XC90, which

is only the most comfortable and safest car

I've ever driven.

http://www.volvocars.com/us/models/xc90/Pages/default.aspx