gripen is the only option.
yes we can have mixed fleet. not depend on a scammers who at the end could refuse to sell us part and push a button to kill our plane.
eft too damn expensive
rafale is trash.
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Hey there’s a reason we didn’t go with the Gripen E, production nightmare and lack of interest compared to stealth. I like Sweden(I say through gritted teeth lol) but I’ve said it before I don’t care about the Gripens, I am knowledgeable on them but I’m not that interested in them compared to other vehicles. F-35, YF-23, Su-47, and F14 are my main squeeze aircraft
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I would say most likely it is a flag note in your maintenance manuals to over-service nitrogen and then manually pump the hydraulic accumulators to a higher PSI than normal, when it’s know to be below a certain temperature.
But I wouldn’t call that a mod.
indian airforce doesnt have a great track record
Kill button is a myth. Lockheed will push to sell parts to anyone who is willing to pay. Gripen got beaten bad in most competitions vs F-35
The F-35 has its uses for Canada, just a bad idea to be the sole fighter of the RCAF. And with the major budget increase, going mixed is the best case.
Well, I’m pro Gipen that’s for a mixed fleet reather then replcaing all planned F-35s with.
any country can do this considering that we don’t make our own planes.
All they have to do is stop the logistics network supporting the planes that we buy, it’s not special to just america.
Like say mbda simply stops sending us more missiles. then what. its effectivelty the same as a kill switch.
also idk why people think f-35 has some sort of kill switch in the first place
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Appreciate you taking it down a notch btw and giving reasonable answers, sorry if this seems sarcastic but I do genuinely like learning about random niche info like this so I appreciate trying to explain whatever the hell it may be.
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If anything wouldn’t going for more Gripen E make RCAF weaker, which makes them even more dependent on NORAD which is completely government controlled vs Lockheed who wants to make money off parts sales
they do because when some mister in the middle east cracked the system.
lockheed was mad crazy about it.
not complaining about f35 itself, its just too expensive for our budget.
Gripen fits what Sweden wants that’s the main problem, Sweden wants a long term cost effective vehicle that sits in the light fighter role where the air is dominated by heavy fighters. I like the Gripen and it’s practical for Sweden but not for many other nations irl.
Besides not many nations want a new light fighter compared to existing models that have combat records.
At least that’s my take
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Cheap is not the Gripen… Lol.
The F-35 is highly upgradable?
Again… Canada is not special, it’s weather is comparable to Alaska. And 90% of it’s population lives more south than the continental US.
The real answer for Canada is the F-15EX: Range, payload, radar, and redundancy, but a mixed fleet is more expensive than the F-35s they have already bought, and the production lines are tied up.
please do tell me how much cost f35 per hour and how much does the gripen.
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Tbf Gripen is cheap but it’s a long run but which means if you don’t plan on keeping it for that long it’s worse than an F-35.
Also the US fumbled going with the F22 over the peak which was the YF-23 imagine what could have been the F35 equivalent had the YF-23 won instead.
Yes yes semantics Northrope was going bankrupt but like YF-23 was way more interesting
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The US fumbled in cutting the F-22 production run dramatically earlier than it should have. Whichever they picked was perfectly suitable if it had been actually supported.
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That’s when you do face 14.0s, because right now, 14.0s get constantly uptiered, I didn’t ask it to be meta because even with triple amraam racks the F-16 PoBit still wouldn’t be more meta than the Typhoon or Su-30SMs, where are you pulling this out from?
It’s only cheap when SAAB fudges numbers. They are a better marketing/sales department than they are a production team.
Because it has, it’s just not in the form of a “big red button” as it’s not a literal kill switch, but it’s far more than just stopping parts. Namely, the fact that the US contols weither or not they fly as their computer systems are fully US controled for all but one nation.
In order to do anything with the F-35, you need the US permission(something that’s an issue if you been following current events), so having an alternative is good, heck any F-35 user that has yet to fully replace their fleet with it has decided to use something else or switch to keeping the other aircraft in service.
Iirc the YF-23 was beating the F22 in nearly all categories it was the fact Northrope was falling under which made the Air Force skeptical that they could produce the YF-23 for full scale production no?
Lockheed was simply a safer option with an very similar proposal for a stealth jet.