Yeah, though its also the maintenance cost. Gripen is far cheaper long term than anything else. Even other 4th gens like the Typhoon
“Dont put words in my mouth while im putting words in others mouths”
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Yeah pretty much, back when it was revealed, they were talked of as different models, but they’ve kind of naturally become the same since then. I believe the NG was initially lighter but they added some weight to it as it became the Gripen E, hard to explain
From what i’ve found yeah, the NG was just the pre-production version of the E. So might have been missing a few items that they ended up added in the full production. Which would easily explain some extra weight.
Would be funny if Gripen-E came to the game finally around same time as Eurofighter or Rafale… or sooner lol
Actually, that is kinda what Im expecting. The Gripen E would be Sweden’s counter to the Typhoon and Rafale. That would make up one hell of a “Euro Delta” update and likely what Sweden would need to counter the F-15C MSIP and Su-27SMs that will likely have been in the game for 3-6 months by the time of said “Euro Delta” update.
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Except unlike the Rafale, the rest of the Euro Canards have little to no RCS reduction techniques. I doubt they’ll all come together.
I’d be more interested if they added some sort of electronic warfare/datalink stuff to the game, like the jamming pods. Gripens are supposedly very good at that stuff. Could make the Gripen C pretty dangerous
I doubt that is their concern. More likely its the number of hard-points and flight performance. Quite frankly, the differences in RCS likely wont be modeled
Yeah, we needed ECMs a year ago. Tornado as well would beenfit greatly from them. But yeah, the ECM on the deltas are actually very good. I’ve read a thing where F-22s had a really hard time getting a lock on German Typhoons in a Dogfight because of them
I can see it happening, would be a nice way to balance the small agile fighters to the gigantic missile buses? Wouldn’t be too hard to implement I think
Eurofighter does
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Not.
Oh, btw @CorporalApollo the JAS 39 changes are in datamine. They’re coming this week, and the drag reduction is about 15.9%.
Can check all the changes here;
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Forget flight model changes. They need to delete the radar and start again, its so buggy, its almost unusable. Dozens of ghosts targets. TWS just stops tracking changes to an entirely different target, and targets not even showing up. I was point my nose at a Su-27, at alt, with ACM PD on and nothing, couldnt see it at all.
Turn it off and turn it back on again?
Does nothing. Ghost targets remain and doesnt help when the radar shows no contacts at all. Just feels a buggy mess at the moment. Actually almost makes the Gripen C unplayable in SB currently
Well that sucks, do you have a report open?
It also gained drag to in some aspects unless I’m having brain fart
Drag & thrust reduced in areas, thrust increased in other areas.
Roughly a 16% decrease in drag?
That should be a huge difference, right? Isn’t drag exponential with higher speed, therefore thrust needs to be even higher to overcome it?
With that amount of decreased drag it runs the risk of actually going to fast, is it not?