10/23/2026
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.
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- Chapters!
- 00:00 Can America Cut Off Sweden’s Gripen?
- 01:09 The Starshield Warning for Europe
- 01:49 Gripen’s American Engine Problem
- 02:19 Portugal, the F-35 and U.S. Control
- 03:16 Why Sweden Built Gripen for Independence
- 04:24 Sweden’s History of Making Foreign Engines Its Own
- 05:51 The RM12 and Sweden’s Secret to Sovereignty
- 07:15 The Gripen E Has a Bigger Problem
- 08:47 The Foreign Leash Is Real
- 10:15 Why Owning the Depot Matters
- 10:45 Sweden’s Answer to American Missiles
- 11:15 Why Ukraine Gets the Gripen C/D First
- 11:46 How Much Control Does Sweden Really Have?
- 12:45 American Technology vs. American Control
- 13:14 Could Gripen Dump Its American Engine?
- 14:20 Sweden’s Plan for the Fighter After Gripen
- 15:18 Ukraine’s F-16 Problem Comes Next