Sweden receives their first Gripen E fighters this week. I would have thought they had a number of them by now, but it turns out they're just now getting them and there's been less than a dozen Gripen E/Fs delivered in total.https://x.com/Forsvarsmakten/status/1980271265073008820
>>64426943nice
>>64426943>The first Gripen E was rolled out on 18 May 2016.Why'd it take them 9 years from rollout to get what is especially a mildly updated version of the C/D into service?
>>64426943What's the tactical difference between the E and F besides the extra crewmember?
>>64427008>mildly updated
>>64427008There're more differences between a Gripen NG and the old Gripen than between a Hornet and a Super Hornet...
>>64427008It didn'tBrazil have had them in service since 2022This is just the first operational squadron in Sweden with production aircraft, after operating the three test and evaluation aircraft for a number of years
>>64427074NTA, but the Wikipedia page is a bit shit. Can you tell me the major ones?
>>64427074every airframe you mentioned is prison gay
>>64427099Things like the SH vs H: Larger airframe, new engine (both F404 to F414) that results in considerably longer legs and payload.The difference is the expansion and modernization of the integrated avionics, it adds IRST, replaces the PESA with AESA radar of a different company, besides the improvement in the rest like the EW suite that the original Gripen received some years afters being in service.The Hornet to Super Hornet transition was more gradual and only the Block II got a new radar (AESA), the rest was similar if the same pods are used, besides the size advantage of the SH.
congrats
>>64426943Why do you people do this? Who fucking cares who has what equipment and how much of it? God I hate MIC spammers so much.
>>64427125That is the old Gripen, the NG has differences, especially if the country using them wants more localization.
>>64427130>Erm uh erm why are you talking about a country receiving fighter jets on the weapons board?
>>64427122>AESA radarI feel like that and the engine are the two headline changes, no?
>>64427158Plus integrated thermals
>>64426943>New 4th gen (+.5 we swear!!!)>2025LMAO literally lighting money on fire. Just buy F35s for cheaper and then jump in to one of European 6th gen programs. Sweden is never going to independently develop a next gen aircraft by itself especially now that it has "allies."
>>64427293>f-35useless if you want to sell to another countries.You have a negative IQ, your simple presence decreases the IQ of anyone in the same room.
>>64427157This its all i want
>>64427025None. It's mainly just an operational conversion trainer for new customers of Gripen EBrazil are the only ones actually ordering it in reasonable numbersThailand ordered one, but will probably just use their existing Gripen Ds otherwise.
>>64427297>most built and sold 5 gen on the market right now>useless if you want to sell to another countries.are you retarded?
>>64427293>Just buy F35sno i dont think we will
>>64427580Maybe you don't understand this, but hey, there're more countries than the US, surprising amirite?
>>64427645and I'm sure you're retarded if you think the f35 is not the most sellable aircraft right now
it's a cool planeall the haters are..... just......gripin'
>>64427890>nigga doesn't understand that Sweden/SAAB can't sell F-35s and going out of business isn't an option
>>64427933>nigga doesn't understand that Sweden/SAAB can't sell F-35swhat does that have to do with the f35 not being sellable?
>>64427158integrated EW too
>>64428088Lewd
>>64428088>philips screwswhy the FUCK do these things still exist when we have torx
>>64430119Big philips still in charge
>>64430119>noooo they striphave you tried not being a gorilla?
>>64430152>just use one of the 5 billion different spec screw driversFuck this retarded screw head design. Any other type is superior
>>64427933>going out of business isn't an optionThey 100% will be. This is just an old yeller situation with SAAB not being given the budget to develop or participate in a 5th or 6th Gen project yet has too many employees to kill off.It's 100% over and no cope will change that fact.
>>64430259Replace SAAB for INTL and you might be right.
