Then would you be interested in explaining why we had to modify the engine for cold weather starts?
Again you’re so hostile it’s really showing that fragile ego.
All I’m asking for is an explanation or a source that explains my post.
SAAB has a tendency to allow for the Gripen to be fitted with as much as possible to increase sellability, that way a nation doesnt need to buy new missiles. They can use existing stock
Sweden obviously operates the Meteor and as far as I am aware, im not sure any Gripen E operates the Aim-120C5 (dont quote me on that)
So at this point, they could just pull the old “AMRAAM = AMRAAM” (I dont know if Aim-120D even requires any different mounting to Aim-120C5/8, I doubt it) and slap it on as a placeholder for Meteor to give the Gripen E a boost
how wrong ?
i wonder how well or how bad it would perform, given the current C5
God knows. Im just dreading they fix the outstanding bug reports for the B/C5 on the D and refuse to actually fix said reports on the B/C5 as “to create a feeling of progression”
Because your maintainers are too lazy or too poor to use a heater cart for 5 minutes on the JFS bottles, which they should be doing to clear the frost off the canopies. Or too lazy or too poor to put your aircraft inside overnight, like good mechanics.
All we can really base it on is the C-5, so who knows. Guess we’ll know when they release the devstream
problem is like, if its really good on devs then most people would cry and it would be nerf like c5
F-35s have operated in Alaska for a decade just fine?
They literally sit in heated hanger so that’s definitely not it, anything else that could be a cause?
You think he’s going to send the F-35A Alaska crash or mention it?
so why would canada and nordic country need a unqiue engine modification ?
Well maybe they modified it to use a start method that typically isn’t used for cold conditions
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They don’t?
If anything colder weather makes jets run better, especially when they are avionics limited by cooling capacity.
today weather
most alska bases are at -20*
most canada bases are -40*
really nice move of you comparing alaska to canada
Oh my God are you serious?
THIS is where you are getting your “cold weather mods”?
COLD WORKING of holes is a structural metal working term. It has nothing to do with weather or ambient temperature.
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How’d we get to Canada’s possible Gripen deal to US aircraft in cold weather?
Heck, out of everything that likely the last reason why it’s being looked at. (The big ones are that Canada has total control over the aircraft, unlike the F-35(giving the RCAF an aircraft it could use 24/7 and not be a free bargaining chip against Canada) and the local production.)
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6 good ARHs would be fine at 14.0, just because it isn’t meta breaking doesn’t mean it’s DOA.
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Eielson will be -37 for takeoff time tomorrow.
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