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This has been raised as a concern before. Reuters is reporting that it'd be a relatively small (but definitely still significant) number sent over, somewhere in the high teens, so it's actually possible that these are previously-decommissioned examples that have been restored or something. There are apparently 24 of Sweden's original fleet in hangar storage awaiting decommission, so it wouldn't seem out of the question. To be clear though this is me guessing, I don't have a source