Urged by something called the “Air Force Capability Coalition for Ukraine.” Whoever that is. In any case, they just want to delay until Ukraine has their F-16 program fully integrated into their air force.
lostmesunniesayy on
The poor Gripen gets cock-blocked even when people want it…
Someone please just let it do what it was born to do.
Business-Dentist6431 on
Wtf
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IshTheFace on
As a Swede I’m honestly surprised Gripen is being considered. Not because it is a bad plane. By all accounts it’s a great plane. But there simply aren’t a lot of them. Why bother implementing something that can’t be easily replaced? A quick search tells me 4600 F16s made while only 271 Gripens. And more than half of them are in service with nations other than Sweden.
With that said, we did send Archer which we have even less of. I don’t even think the current Archer model built on the articulated chassis is gonna be produced anymore last I heard. The next version will probably be on some kind of chassis akin to the Caesar if I’m not mistaken.
obidobi on
So frustrating Ukraine has asked for the planes several times and Sweden want to send them… but someone up the chain is blocking them!
obidobi on
Urged = Ordered
If it was just about Urge Ukraine would have had both Gripen and AWACS this summer.
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Urged by something called the “Air Force Capability Coalition for Ukraine.” Whoever that is. In any case, they just want to delay until Ukraine has their F-16 program fully integrated into their air force.
The poor Gripen gets cock-blocked even when people want it…
Someone please just let it do what it was born to do.
Wtf
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As a Swede I’m honestly surprised Gripen is being considered. Not because it is a bad plane. By all accounts it’s a great plane. But there simply aren’t a lot of them. Why bother implementing something that can’t be easily replaced? A quick search tells me 4600 F16s made while only 271 Gripens. And more than half of them are in service with nations other than Sweden.
With that said, we did send Archer which we have even less of. I don’t even think the current Archer model built on the articulated chassis is gonna be produced anymore last I heard. The next version will probably be on some kind of chassis akin to the Caesar if I’m not mistaken.
So frustrating Ukraine has asked for the planes several times and Sweden want to send them… but someone up the chain is blocking them!
Urged = Ordered
If it was just about Urge Ukraine would have had both Gripen and AWACS this summer.