Charles Talleyrand wrote:

In some real sense, Sweden is only building parts of a military jet and
buying some of the hard bits from the US. It's not obvious that
Sweden could build a modern high performance hard-to-jam
radar for instance.

"Ericsson AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) is a new airborne
radar project currently in development at Ericsson Microwave Systems.
The AESA technology will improve the radars overall performance
drastically, especially its target detection and tracking capability.
Beam direction can be changed instantaneously, detection range will be
considerably increased, and jamming suppression further improved. The
AESA radar will feature multibeam capability with all beams individually
and simultaneously controlled. It can also operate simultaneously as a
fire control and obstacle warning radar, and be used both in intercept
and ground attack missions. The multibeam concept also allows for radar
operation, data linking, radar warning and jamming simultaneously. As a
consequence of the very large number of transmitter and receiver
modules, the radar will have a high system availability through graceful
degradation."

http://www.ericsson.com/microwave/pr...000724_4.shtml