SAAB JAS 39E/F Gripen - General discussion

Having no voice warning system in sim is also not super fun. Accepted 2!! years ago.
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Now I know sim is not really something gaijin gives a crap about. But come on…

It’s already been accepted best you can do is hope they give a damn

Exactly my point, 2 years ago… I get why they have a snail as a logo.

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whats with the gripen’s countermeasures? it says 160 countermeasures when selecting but only 92 ingame? and the BOL pods do not dispense equal chaff and flares?

Problem a bug with BOL did you just unlock them?

Each BOL pod has 160 countermeasures. The internal countermeasures are the 92.
If you have custom loadouts there are sometimes issues with those if the loadout options are updated so try to delete and re-make the custom loadouts to see if that helps.

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Also restart game after doing all of that. That fixes it usually for me

strange, without BOL, in the menu i have an even split of 80 chaff 80 flare


but in-game it gives me 52 flares and 40 chaff.

and with BOL, it seems to dispense chaff and flare in random patterns, sometimes it dispenses 2 chaff and 1 flare with one click, sometimes it dispenses 2 flare and 1 chaff with one click. its not a big deal but ive only seen this behavior occur before on M2K with the weird countermeasure loads

What loadout do you have in your “Preset #2” ?

i deleted it and remade it from your suggestion, but it was just the default stock loadout.


the issue still persists, when i go into a test flight with this loadout, the menu gives me an option to select my countermeasures composition from a total of 160 countermeasures and not 92. can you replicate this issue?

it’s an old issue ever since gaijin made the BOY402 dispensers (the countermeasure dispensers behind the pylons of 2/7 [capacity 6 per dispenser and common to J35XS and gripen-c]) customisable (not flare only anymore). The main CMs’ group is showing 120 for gripen-c and gripen-d, 160 for gripen-e. It’s been in-game since the dev-server. I’ve seen some reports, but none are adressing the actual issue; rather stating that gripen has too little countermeasures whilst in-flight… I had thought gaijin’s dev team would’ve spotted this problem, but then again, they apparently didn’t spot asymetric pylons. So, who am i to hope they’ll see an incorrect number.

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Yet another update came and went, F18E got a fix, F16CM PoBIT got a hud update… Gripen E? Nope… GG, can’t be arsed to care any more.

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so i asked a moderator, and the radar contacts not scaling for the mfd:

is seemingly a limitation of the current way that mfd screen is implemented

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anyone notice how the maws of gripen-e stops working when in clouds?

IR and UV also gets blocked by clouds. it is an optical MAWS after all.

haven’t had such happen on rafale iirc (which should be also eo)

Will the E-Gripen be able to carry AIM-120C-8 missiles in the next major update? The last update implemented GPS-guided ARH missiles for developing nations, so it seems quite possible. However, it doesn’t have the same high-speed capabilities as the Eurofighter, so I don’t think equipping it would dramatically change the game balance. What do you all think?

We don’t know what’s coming

Not sure what Gaijin will do but the MS23 upgrade of the JAS 39E (2028-2030) will get AIM-120C-8

Aren’t AIM-120C-8 essentially AIM-120D-3s ? It would in effect be a better AIM-120D than USA/UK F/A-18F’s have