Unfortunately for the Gripen, the advantages it has over Eurofighters and Rafale’s IRL, are simply not a thing in game (Electronic warfare, advanced datalink systems, fantastic situational awareness in cockpit with intuitive screens).
So I think when EF2000 and Rafale arrives the Gripen will likely just be a worse version of them…
One positive thing however is that the Gripen can carry all the bells and whistles of modern weaponry, really cool anti ship missiles, the most modern amraam(not sure about 240) and the best fox 3 in the world (meteor), aswell as compatibility with pretty much all modern IR missiles except for Micah. So we’re definitely not lacking in that regard.
If you’re referring to MICA, the french missile, then Gripen actually does have compatibility. Can’t find anything on a different missile with the name Micah, so can’t 100% say on that front, but if it is the french thing then it can carry it.
I will probably play it a lot more when they finish off the FM ( I think its 95% there). Give it the correct radar and cockpit. (Especially the HMD reticle). Revert the BOL nerfs and finish the loadout options (mostly the centre line bombs, would be handy in SB)
But ultimately. Its not British. Its a great aircraft and im gunna treat it like a Typhoon trainer, having spent so long in the Tornado/Phantom BVR trucks or mud movers. Ive got limited experience in a dogfighter. So it will be good for that. But I lack “emotional connection” with the aircraft and I think im always going to gravitate towards aircraft like the Sea Harrier FRS1 and Tornado F3 for my A2A fix in SB and probably will play the FA2 quite a bit in SB as well, with the Gripen as a niche back-up. No matter if it gets AMRAAM or not.
It really depends how accurate Gaijin wants to be with this. Currently Gripen has Aim9M, but afaik Swedish army never bought them (could be wrong) but of course, Gripen was compatible with it.
For the same reasoning that the Gripen got 9M It could get pretty much anything it was compatible for? So both Gripens could essentially get any modern IR and NATO fox 3?
I doubt that would happen though, I’d think Gaijin would like to keep them unique to each other
Yep, the Gripen is a good jack of all trades. (I really hope it gets ground radar)
Its definetly future proof thats for sure (in war thunder). I just hope they dont hide behind it for Britain. Thats my biggest fear. Is that the resposne to:
"Can we get the Sea Harrier FA2, or Tornado F3 AoP, or Tornado Gr4 or Harrier Gr9A? "
will be:
“No you have the Gripen C, what more do you want?”
From my understanding, the C the Africans ended up was not compatible with AMRAAM for some reason or other. Didn’t dig into it very far, but seemed they didn’t bother in favour of home grown armament, that went nowhere. I could be completely wrong though, I did go looking for negative information, as I was quite a bit grumpy.
Regarding 9M, to my understanding it is Gaijin being too lazy to go 9li
Though could be wrong. Though I think they used Python or the Darter (which I think is a Python variant) on the Cheatah D so maybe there was an overlap. To be honest the sources I’ve seen are tenatively secondary and I dont really know where I would even look for Primary sources for a Swedish aircraft in service with South Africa.