After all, it has more mounting points than C.
Exactly, loved it when i learned what they did.
I think its safe to say its a new design.
True but you can achive similiar capabilities with double rack, kinda what they are trying to do with latest F-16 blocks.
They can’t simply upgrade earlier airframes to do so because of weight limits on some of the wings and pylons. Speaking more to the Gripen than the F-16 though.
I might worried gajin forgot Litening III from Tornado GR.4 instead placeholder targeting pod (Litening II)
Swedish Air Force never ordered Brimstone & SPEAR 3
From cdk file but now gajin not add AIM-120C-5
Coming to sweden tech tree coming to 2027 or 2028
Saab have already integrated Brimstone and Spear 3 onto the Gripen E. Sweden is already looking for a long range strike option, with budget available for purchases in December, and is probably going to buy Spear 3 (or a mix of Spear 3 and Brimstone 3) as the UK MoD and Sweden are jointly developing an EW/Decoy version of Spear 3 a kin to ADM-160, Spear EW
Gripen now goes to C band, and has planes ID
Ground targets are mostly SAM/AAA