SAAF JAS-39C Technical Data and Discussion

i also just found this, however its a bit inconclusive on the specifics of MAW. BUT it clearly states that the system can deploy flares and chaff automatically.

This is even better, from SAAB https://www.defenceiq.com/content-auto-download/5b04b95f97533d72c14ff28a
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interesting

@Gunjob Do you want me to make a new separate report for internal MAW (and slave CM to MAW) as i have now found more sources?

Do you know whats the thing of that version?
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This is a similar press release and to me that doesn’t read as a MAW at all. It basically says “we have an E-war suite and various other countermeasures”.

This is much more credible.

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Its the same one i linked to.

the quoted text is (now that i read it several times and more in depth) not really describing an actual warning about incoming missiles. BUT it does definitively state (together with another source i linked to above) automatic CM dispensing against radar and IR missiles.

So now i’m a bit confused, how do you do automatic CM against missiles if there is no MAW system?

Could be chaff, like it automatically releases chaff or other appropriate defensive measures when ESTL or RWR finds it appropriate against radar missile threats

it mentions both though.

The only scenario withou MAWS is in case it is spotted by the radar and is identified as a ir missile

A bit of a sidetrack but i found an AMAZING resource for images of the different Gripen versions:

I’ve created a report for all Gripen C models on the basis of this.

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Do you know what the quirk of Litening GIII is?

Also LWS can be added with this

From the looks of it, its just a LITENING 3 that’s been adapted to mount on Gripen. Hence the “G”.

Brilliant! thx ^^

Good spot I’ll do another report.

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And another thing that makes me wonder is low band antenne array. I know it means bearly anything by itself, but what do we consider a low band? It is in the EWS so it will be a part of RWR. Current one we have is E-J

Low band would be 30-300kHz so NATO A/B-band;
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