Only for the first 3 or so weeks. and even then since the introduction of ARH and the reduction in MP height, its unlikely that tactic would even still work now.
In aircraft like the Typhoon, the fairly standard thing to do is run flares in the large CMs and then run pure chaff in the BOL and then just use periodic deployment to drop large bursts of chaff when defending against an ARH threat.
Oh, there is also a glitch where if you have periodic countermeasures, your chaff will stop around 300 countermeasures left, and you will only release flares for an additional hundred before it stops working.
I use the Grippen in 1v1s, and I’ve experienced that quite a bit. Reported it, but obviously it will never get fixed. Why would they fix Swedish vehicles, especially since we were supposed to get a Hornet with GBUs (months later and we still haven’t gotten it, so much for "later update)
Italy doesn’t need the Gripen E because it already has the Eurofighter
I personally think it should not get it because sub tree copy paste vehicles just delude the tech trees and in this case would make grinding Sweden redundant because there would be nothing special in the Swedish tech tree.
Look at it like this:
Why would anyone want to grind Sweden to just get the Gripen E, if you could as well grind Italy to get both the Gripen E and the Eurofighter.
I fully agree in this view, we need to keep some uniqeness in respective nation otherwise it destroys the purpose of grinding or choosing a specific nation. I hope the Gripen E will be unique to Sweden but i think we all know that wont happen, just my wishfull thinking :)