SAAB JAS 39E/F Gripen - General discussion

Fluffy_Bucketles · August 14, 2026, 7:26am

Apparently, I cannot read things in brackets.

You are correct. Brackets bested my skim reading.

WigglyGripen · August 14, 2026, 11:17am

How often is the WT Wiki accurate and updated?

May have found some discrepancies on the Gripen E page.

Fluffy_Bucketles · August 14, 2026, 11:20am

Do not know frequency of updates, but has been off on a few things the few times I’ve perused it for information that I can’t be bothered opening game for. So anecdotally, would not be too surprised if something was inaccurate for Swedish plane.

WigglyGripen · August 14, 2026, 11:21am

In the general characteristics page, Gripen C and Gripen E share the same dimensions, despite the Gripen E being a little bit bigger overall

Fluffy_Bucketles · August 14, 2026, 11:24am

That seems a bit dodgy.

WigglyGripen · August 14, 2026, 11:37am

Yeah, but then again I don’t take the WT wiki seriously anyways.

I’m just trying to dig for more info of the wing area too on the Gripen E, but I’ve been finding conflicting numbers.

Necronomica · August 14, 2026, 11:52am

I’m not at all certain but i think the Wiki gets it’s stats directly from the game since it switched to the 3.0 version. The wiki mods might know though, you can ask them through PM perhaps :)

genises1o · August 14, 2026, 1:16pm

idk about the stats but the history part is deffo written by volunteers

It wouldnt be too far fetched if they also gave the specs on the wiki

ostgh · August 14, 2026, 3:21pm

I think the Wiki’s just being CTL-C&P here. The FM file on the datamines shows it being at the priorly mentioned 8.4m.

github.com

gszabi99/War-Thunder-Datamine/blob/3260ef312fcc1dc1da690328607abe744ca69137/aces.vromfs.bin_u/gamedata/flightmodels/fm/saab_jas39e.blkx#L222


      
            "Slats": 0.0
          },
          "Flaps2": {
            "Flaps": 1.0,
            "FlapsPolarBlending": 1.0,
            "FlapsAnimation": 1.0,
            "Stab": 0.0,
            "Slats": 0.0
          },
          "WingPlane": {
            "Span": 8.4,
            "SweptAngle": 51.0,
            "TaperRatio": 7.0,
            "Angle": 0.0,
            "VAngle": 0.0,
            "UseSpinLoss": true,
            "SpinCdloss": 0.07,
            "SpinClloss": 0.06,
            "DownwashType": 2,
            "DownwashCoeff": 0.0,
            "Areas": {

WigglyGripen · August 15, 2026, 1:06am

Hmmm…Saab has their specs listed 8.6m for the width

ron_23 · August 15, 2026, 11:29am

and that is the total width including the jammer pod which arent part of the wing surface

in the datamine it is only the width of the wing itself

RDXRooster63 · August 15, 2026, 5:20pm

Basically never. The BT-7M’s wiki page hasn’t been updated since before rank 1 light tanks lost scouting

the JDS Yugure page hasn’t been updated since it went up to 4.7 and claims it still has lower BR than other fletchers

WigglyGripen · August 15, 2026, 5:24pm

Clearly a buff needed to the Gripen E needed )))

WigglyGripen · August 18, 2026, 12:11pm

Hmm found this little snippet about a LWR being mentioned/considered

Full document: https://icas.org/icas_archive/ICAS2002/PAPERS/164.PDF

Necronomica · August 18, 2026, 12:29pm

Interesting but old document, it was written before the C even came into service :P

Pheonix_RX01 · August 18, 2026, 4:44pm

Honestly this isn’t new, original procurement docs for SAAF Gripen shows GPS bombs but at the time of their acquisition MS17 was the most advanced and GPS bombs were pushed back for later integration. Of course SAAF never bought the later MS upgrades but yet it’s another example of planned features being mentioned before they were actually added.

WigglyGripen · August 21, 2026, 6:49pm

Because I can’t upload the video:

Confirmed launch on the KEPD 350

Gaijin when

Michael-IR · August 25, 2026, 12:10pm

Added

Michael-IR · August 25, 2026, 12:26pm

Also done some cleaning with this folder

Michael-IR · August 25, 2026, 12:36pm

Updated