Well, at least Saab are considering getting back into civil aircraft manufacturing unlike their UK equivalent. BAE inherited pretty much all of the UK's civil aviation manufacturing heritage (other than Shorts and Britten-Norman) and rather than exploit this leadership position by developing new market-oriented products, they proceeded to invest the absolute minimum to warm over legacy regional and corporate aircraft in order to string them out for a few more years, then terminate them or flog them off (125). To complete their masterplan they then flogged off their (the country's) share of Airbus and exited civil aircraft manufacture to focus on the military. All this at a time when most observers could see that civil aviation was booming with huge regional and corporate opportunities being exploited by Embraer, Bombardier, ATR and others and with record large aircraft production rates being achieved. All the while military budgets were being continuously slashed! Smart or what?!
And now back to the topic . . .