Swedish top air ranks, in my opinion, have not received any substantial additions since the release of the Direct Hit update nearly 2 years ago and I believe now could be the time to change that with the addition of the Gripen A.
JA37D, while being a useful and necessary addition to the game, was simply not enough of a upgrade in terms of flight performance to compete against other top tier planes.
JAS39A would have approximately half the empty weight of JA37D while only losing about 30% of the thrust, which would provide much greater acceleration and overall flight performance without outperforming current top tier vehicles.
In terms of missiles the Gripen, considering the lack of confirmation of AMRAAMs, would not present much improvement, however I believe the increased performance alone would be enough.
Sweden needs something to freshen up their top tier as they currently are the only nation (apart from UK) without 12.0 jet. JAS39A would be comparable to F-16A Block 10 in the US tech tree and wouldn’t break the balance if introduced with only AIM-9Ls. And even then it would be better than Viggen which is exactly what Sweden desperately needs rn.
Would they come to germany tho? Even if they would be underperforming in thrust, avionics themself would be enough to give them a much higher BR, just like with XF-2A
I have no idea what led you to that conclusion, but there is a reason why this topic hasn’t been removed and yours has. Your childish rambling is not fitting for the forums and you should grow up a little. I will not be continuing this conversation as it’s getting off topic.
At this point, they should simply add the JAS 39 C and skip the A/B variants. As you pointed out, unless they feel like adding the IRIS-T there aren’t many missiles Sweden can use, so directly moving to a better airframe seems fair if we still only have AIM-9Ls.