SAAF JAS-39C Technical Data and Discussion

and cockpit is in Swedish

I don’t think so. Probably should appear as FA2 if it appears as anything other than J39

That is because it is cockpit of an A, not C. C cockpit is in english

That would be fixed at the same time as the cockpit being that of the A not the C

Not quite sure I follow you here?

It’s there, it’s just that the projectile speed is so fast compared to 30mm’s that gunsight doesn’t move much. It’s a little buggy tho

so it should either be J39 or FA2
its their a bug report for this?

It’s not using the SMT radar just the 9.13 mig29 radar

ah apologies wasnt too sure so i presumed it was the SMT’s Radar

makes sense as the early su27 can’t use r77 but it should have its own if it did have its own irl

Is the top speed at sea level correct? With 4 missiles and and less than 15 mins of fuel i couldnt go past 1400km/h

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I can go past that at SL with 6xMissiles, the BOL pods + a fuel tank with 20min of fuel internally.

What map were you on? For me it seems to top out around 1430ish with my setup, although that takes a while.

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speaking of which I believe the main focus right now, sense the flight model seems mostly done, should be getting the Gripen its own radar

Here is an excerpt on Jane’s avionics on the radar, jane’s isnt an acceptable source for reporting but I am posting it anyways to give an idea of missing capabilities.

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Yeah as it shouldn’t ping as a f16 on rwr

@CorporalApollo do you know what the loadout and fuel for the Gripen was in the stated 0.5 to 1.1 acceleration time. I feel like there is potentially still abit to much drag

Ill check again

The rafale has a slightly smaller frontal radar cross section I think.

Not yet, but if it has the F16s radar as placeholder, then that is to be expected.

And possibly FA2. That is just based upon this:

The PS-05/A is a pulse-doppler radar currently used by the JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft (JAS 39A, B, C and D variants). It weighs 156 kg and was developed by Ericsson in collaboration with GEC-Marconi, sharing some technology with the latter’s Blue Vixen radar for the Sea Harrier (which inspired the Eurofighter’s CAPTOR radar).

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I actually saw the opposite haha but I suppose it all depends. Either way its objectively false to say the Rafale has RCS reduction but the EF doesn’t, but i’ll give that the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s much, it’s to do with the curvier nature of the rafale, it helps a little. (I think) But for the most part, they are the same. I think it depends on a lot factors. (I could also be recalling the wrong info)