I was looking forward to grinding the italian tech tree since it had the f16 and the grippen, two planes i would like to try, but i saw on YouTube ranking video where a guy ranked top tier jets and he put the italian grippen at the worst tier. So i wanted to as is it really worse than the real one or did the guy put it there because of the meme that italy suffers. https://youtube.com/shorts/Ze4sG4662TI?si=nJCoWQzSSUjlqyGx
It’s just the “Italy sucks” meme. That tier list is also outdated. I recommend finding some new content about top tier as of right now if you are considering Italy.
Italy as a nation is fine in game currently, but it’s literally only because they copypasted a shit ton of vehicles that don’t belong in the italian tree… to the italian tree… and now those distinctively non-italian vehicles are the ones people point to when they say “Italy is fine”.
Italy’s props as a whole are still massively overtiered, their korean era jets are still overtiered, their F-104s are still overtiered, etc.
To answer the OP, Yes I believe the “Italian” gripen and the swedish one are identical.
Some earlier Italian props that are only overtiered by 0.3 are still very very good
TheMilitaryTok is meme content slop
The C. 205 serie 3 is arguably the best 4.7 prop in game.
And yeah, the two Gripens are identical.