Saab 18B and a domestic strike industry

Sweden's effort to absorb foreign knowledge and create an independent aircraft industry produced the Saab 18B. Jets were already entering service, limiting any claim that it was a world-beater. Its advantages were flexibility, maintainability, and availability in useful numbers. The wider deterrent concept allowed another Swedish capability to exploit any vulnerability created when an attacker concentrated against one part of the defence system. Sweden combined naval, coastal, air, and industrial assets to make aggression difficult. The industrial line continued into modern Saab aircraft such as Gripen. Torpedo bombers added another threat while domestic industry matured, and the closing question asks readers to compare Sweden's capacity to prepare with that of other countries in the early 1930s.