SAAB JAS 39E/F Gripen - General discussion

True, just me having a brain fart.

Now this would be fun:

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and not exactly balanced…

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DWS 39 Mjölnir would be fun, definitely, and make AJS more standout from, say AJ,

People say that AJS is basically a worse Su-17M4 which I disagree with but aside from in game aspects AJS was just so much more advanced and deadly in its full weapon and avionics package which just arent present in game.

maybe?
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hopefully, or it does the funky bounce thing

In game, both spaded, Su 17 is a significantly more effective strike platform. Sadly AJS suffers from too many shortcomings that do not hinder the su 17. Main hindrance is the CM situation.

Using real life tactics you can perform much better with AJS. You just gotta boom all your missiles and zoom to rtb while running periodic chaff with your ECM pod all the time. Before your heavy Mavericks hit you’ll be already landing to rearm another salvo. And thats while not even closing much to the battlefield.

Su-17M4 meanwhile would be running sub-mach while trying to manually guide its weapons under 10km due to laser pointer limitations.

Su 17 m4 carries kh 29T. Even laden with extra fuel, Su 17 M4 comfortably sits above mach 1, permitting the same practice you’ve outlined but with faster air to ground ordnance. Generally limits the capacity for retaliation, be it moving or shooting down the weapon.

Difference in viewpoint might be from personal taste.

It probably carries from when Kh29T wasnt able to LOAL on ground vehicles

All the effort you all put into this and we get gripen slop version.

Thanks for the effort anyway lads.

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What do you mean? Several of the reports have already been fixed and a lot of them accepted, it usually 2-3 weeks after the update until things are stable and most things fixed.

it-aint-over-till-its-over

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quick walkaround

one with the old wing?

yes

It’s one of the prototype planes, 39-10. Video is also 5 years old and i think the new wing showed up about 2 years ago?

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so, the one ingame is eithe one of the prototypes or incorrectly modeled wing profile wise?

Not really either of those options?

The 6002 has had several iterations and changes, the one currently in game seems to be early production model with some changes but not all the changes. There are images of the 6002 both with and without the new wing. Heck, even some of the in-service E versions in Brasil had the old wing for a while before being retrofitted with the new one later.

weird, but alrr

The wing change was something they thought of and tested after having started serial production, i’m guessing it was cheep enough but made enough of a change for it to be worth it for customers to change to the new wing even on already received aircraft (Its just the elevons that are changed, nothing else that i know of).

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