You’re putting faith into the idea that gaijin then adds a mirage to fix the hole lost from CAS. Imo its gonna sound mean but it shouldn’t have even received CAS in the first place, the SAAF Gripen is on almost on par with the F16AJ in how many fictional things are on the SAAF gripen compared to every other Gripen. Additionally the Gripen has essentially filled a hole it shouldn’t have for CAS which imo losing its CAS is acceptable as it shouldn’t have fufilled that role to begin with. And i know what people will say and yes all Gripens should lose their fake CAS they never historically used. All this does it correct a jet that Britain doesn’t need and hurt every other nation.
At this point its best to leave it as is. Gaijin has shown no interest in historical accuracy nor giving the Gripens buffs now that they are some of the worst performing 13.7’s for the state of the game. As for the SAAF it should stay as is and so should all the Gripen C’s, we dont need more fictional equipment being added to abominations that don’t exist until gaijin properly names them which would again mean the SAAF Gripen C would be losing GBU-39 as right now that is the only MS20 feature present on any of the Gripens.
What i hope is that Gaijin actually plans to make the next model of Gripens correctly, we dont need a Gripen NG/E being a A model or a C model MS20, it needs to be the correct vehicle considering they have failed to even slightly care towards the Gripens and their accuracy.
The Gripen C served a single purpose. To give Britain a fighter until ARH was added. It did that. It could be removed from the tree entirely these days without too much harm given we have the Tornado F3 AOP, Sea Harrier FA2 and Typhoon FGR4 to take its place.
As for CAS. That is one area Britain was well equipped for IRL and is shown in game with the Tornado GR1/GR4, Harrier GR7/T10 and Typhoon, let alone additions missing like the Jaguar GR3A and Harrier GR9A and the underperforming nature of the GR4, GR7 and Typhoon.
Given the Gripen Cs actually rather lack-luster A2G payload (especially with that missing hardpoint) its hard to choose it over the FGR4 or a true mud mover like the Harrier Gr7.
I know this thread is old, but it would appear the AOA toggle on the SAAF JAS39C doesn’t affect the aircraft whatsoever, whereas on the swedish models the AOA toggle makes a noticeable difference. Not entirely sure about other exported models (Thai, Hungarian)
Tbf the AOA is incorrect on all the gripens and isn’t worth using to begin with imo. 33° is pretty mid considering the vehicles we have at the same BR.
They won’t accept it. They chose to go with the inaccurate report put in a while back that I still hold grievance for. Not just that, but they chose to keep taking a hatchet to it because it was still outperforming the Americans and Russians. So it is well and truly below even the report with sources that hold less than credible provenance.
You may be a touch mad. Gaijin forced me to shorten “Fluffy Bucketless Pocket Dragon” because character limits when I started, so it is “Fluffy_Bucketles” from the start.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the Gripen wasn’t butchered, or if we got NG/E for fighting the newer kit, but it’s rough, so I stick to ground strike in a su 30 😿
