>is the most underestimated and underrated jet fighter in your path
>outclasses your F-15's and F-16's and Rafales and Typhoons in your path
what the frick did the swedes mean by this?
>is the most underestimated and underrated jet fighter in your path
>outclasses your F-15's and F-16's and Rafales and Typhoons in your path
what the frick did the swedes mean by this?
>Worse than the F-35 for more money.
Plus the aural alerts are probably "Bork bork bork" too.
it only has oral alerts, a gay swedish midget sits between your leg and sucks your wiener in morse code
Sounds to me like the swedes are thinking next level by keeping the pilot happy with midget blowjobs
Dude we need the dwarf vacuum 9000 in American fighter jets now. Not having it installed is a crime!
What happens if there's another alert after the pilot cums?
than the F-35 for more money.
Post supercruise
You sound Chang.
Umm, sweaty, subsonic aircraft that melt themselves if they use their afturburner are the new stunning and brave technological revolution.
Post operators
Post number of aircraft produced (including the Gripen C)
Post thrust
post development cost
>Gripen going Mach 1.1 with a light loadout on a short time
Lmfao. That's pathetic.
>for more money
Eh? Isn't one of the main sale points of the Gripen that it's relatively cheap and easy to both manufacture and maintain? While the whole US government drama surrounding the F-35 is its price?
Lockheed has been shitting out F35s like nobodies business, the cost has drastically reduced since it first released, its around the same price of the gripen rn, in the $80m range
This. The F35 is the 5th Gen Model A. They are making so many it’s getting so cheap. They will be everywhere and that will present its own savings. Every NATO and US ally will know how to wrench them.
Purchase price is higher, but the lifetime price including maintenance and all that shit should be alot lower.
For now, you can purchase spare parts.
If some of those companies stop producing spare parts (or greatly reduce their output making the cost of spare parts go up a LOT) you might end up with long-term costs that balloon well past initial expectations.
Somehow they peddle this fricking lie. In my country they actually calculated how much we spent on these things, with stuff like maintenance, training, facilities, upgrades, divided by the flight hours and it came out near $30k/hour whereas the Swedes advertised it with like $6k/hour which is pretty much just the cost of fuel.
It had some major shortcomings compared to the F-16, such as missing weapons and missile integrations that were advertised during the sale, and promised free software updates that became paid ones etc.
Btw the cost per hour metric is moronic anyways, since nobody can agree what it exactly means to keep an aircraft in fighting condition.
It's just ameriBlack folk are too low IQ to actually look that the number's available on the Internet is from the Brazilian sale.
Which came not only the jets themselves, but Tech Transfer and right to produce the plane in Brazil, thus rising the price a lot bigger than it is by just buying the planes.
Yeah the Huehues are paying 215 mil per Gripen because of tech transfer, but if you want to do flyaway costs the F-35 and Gripen are sort of tied. Nobody ever pays just flyaway costs.
W-what country is the blue flag?
European Union c**ts.
The Brazilian version will source parts from their own MIC.
>but if you want to do flyaway costs the F-35 and Gripen are sort of tied. Nobody ever pays just flyaway costs.
Any links? Really curious about it.
US contracts for F-35A flyaway is about $80 million these days and will liekly creep down further.
Swedish contract for Gripen E was around 500 million SEK per unit (US $48 million). I can post links for that but they are all in Swedish.
What further contracts can SAAB snatch? Some LatAm country via the Brazil connection? Malaysia? Some African country?
Colombia since they backed out from Dassault.
Maybe Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.
I mean a 30million difference still quite a lot.
It actually came with a full range of live and traing equipment, plus ground equipment and infrastructure changes, wich was the latgest cost. Sweden paid nowhere nere what Brazil did for its Gripen Es.
The Swedish Air Force paid Saab roughly 500 million SEK per aircraft, wich equals $48 million per Gripen E.
True forgot about those, they pretty much bought the entire thing including blueprints, guess it's the first time that happens.
How is the gripen against the F-16V or F-16EX?
No one really cares how it performs against older F-16C/F-15E
>F-16EX
F-15EX
Oh just shut the frick up with your bait threads will you
t. Gripen ground crew
>all the critical subsystems are either British or American
>keep calling it a Swedish plane
Stop
A lot of the components that was outsourced earlier is beeing taken back to Sweden ever since Covid messed up the international logistics, and delivery times couldnt be met because of it. Or so the guy in charge of production told us when we visited Saab last year. That said, stuff like the engine, hyudralic pumps and fuel systems are originally either US or UK products, they are just modified and produced under licence here. The only major components I can think of beeing produced compleatly outside of Sweden is the ejection seats, wheels and brakes.
t. Gripen ground crew
>ejection seats
Cant compete with martin baker
Agreed. They are a bit of a b***h to do maintenance checks on tho, and they arnt very comfy. On the plus side they never seem to fail when they are tested or needed.
who else has a club of satisfied users?
Ummm pics? OC?
This, we had the Rafale M tech guy a few months back, it would be nice to add some original Gripen pics
Here is some more OC. Ill post some more when I find them
Sure, here is some from when we had a joint exercize with US B-52s
Cool, you can post further please, I love the Gripen.
Do you work on the new E/F?
I saw it at a Hungarian airshow a couple of years ago
E/F have not been delivered to our unit yet, but it liekly will soon. I have been around the E tho and visited Saabs production line for them. This pic is from Malmen AFB a few years ago
How often do you do highway and woods training?
Relativly often. Atleast 5 - 6 times a year, plus some larger ones.
>that pic
I know exactly where that pic you posted is taken btw, I have been there many times, and did maintenance on that specific plane (#833) just a few days ago lol
Here is what I drive at work
Looks comfy.
They are great, even more so now that there are snow and ice outside. 90% of driving them wintertime is just us having fun drifting. V8, rear wheel drive (they are 4x4, but you can select rear only) and nothing on the bed makes them spinn as soon as you look at the throttle
Are they Ford or what?
Not gripengay but those are old Jeep J20 pickups
Correct!
Are you the guy who posted a pic of a bunch of swedish soldiers loading rounds into the autocannon magazine a while ago? If not, you're the second gripen ground crew person I've seen here.
Yeah, that was probably me.
Alright, cool. Seems to be a lot of swedish armed forces people here. Some guy who served on the visby class posted some interesting stuff a while ago
Neat. I know a couple of people on Visbys. Those boats are awsome. One EW guy told me shit about how they pinpointed individual ships by emissions alone, and I dont mean class, I mean hull number.
They rarely even fly out of Kaliningrad these days. I bet those aviation regiments were transfered to fight in the war too.
The funniest thing the guy posted here was about how there's these bits of custom made wooden furniture (like tables in the galley) made by one specific guy, and the crew wrecked one during a bit of celebration and it took ages and cost a fortune to have it replaced. IIRC.
Haha that's funny
you should stop being a pussy and shoot down some vat Black folk over Kaliningrad
Is it true that Sweden's armed forces are pretty much an airforce and nothing else?
Haha this is pretty cool.
Those trucks are nice, they have a Red Dawn feel
Not so fast.
FINLAND MENTIONED!!!
So send it to Ukraine, you silly Swedes!
Not before getting into HATO sillybuns 🙂
>outclasses your F-15's and F-16's and Rafales and Typhoons in your path
>and Rafales
Start by outclassing the Mirage 2000 first, swedecuck.
Then and only then you may be authorized to dream about outclassing the Rafale.
>shots fired
Hi Tony
If the gripen was a good plane people would be buying it and yet the only people who have bought it so far are dumb third worlders
You couldn’t even convince Canada to buy it
The Gripen is a decent lightweight jet but this is delusional talk.
I got one at home, very cute plane.