SAAF JAS-39C Technical Data and Discussion

i love the gripen, one of the planes i still fly regularly in sim. even took it out last night

it’s easier to report one thing at a time (looking at some old mig-29 radar/r-27 reports hehe).
its hard for a report to go through when someone reports multiple things in the same report

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Real easy way to check is find an radar MFD in PPI mode and check the displayed angle. Does require some MFD photos though.

See i stopped playing the Gripen entirely because its just kinda mid. I know its still decent but i personally find it to be the most boring jet in warthunder as it just doesn’t feel good to fly imo. I put more time into my Su-27/33 because those things are insanely good even in an uptier and feel great to fly.

Its clear the Gripen was an after thought to give Britain something until the EFT given how it still doesn’t even have the most basic things and i cant wait for the E to be even worse because it’ll also be some rushed afterthought just like the Viggens and Drakens before it.

Yeah that be a +/-60° display.

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Real question is what MS is the Gripen?

Different MS means Different model radar

Yeah, I think it’s cool aesthetically, and at least it has some of the survivability aspect. I just feel like all of the “compromises” they made in the 39’s development IRL are in-game whilst the benefits they made the compromises for are not. Doesn’t fit the meta very well, except the 39A in down-tiers of course. Depends what you value

Non specific for the Gripen Cs. They’re just generic Gripen C.

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definitely ±60

That still doesn’t tell me the MS

I doubt things change much between the MS17, MS18, MS19, og MS20 but id still like to know

@Gunjob should i add this image to the bug report lol, or is it enough just to use that brochure

Add it, it’s supplemental and adds to the case.

Oh fair enough then

I’ll just add it in comments since it’s not a primary source (technically user calcualtions)

I doubt they reduced the gimbals as the radar went through upgrades? I’m unsure why they would do that. I might have some old 39A MFD pics lemme see

even gripen a cockpit mfd looks like 60 degrees
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Isn’t that from a video game?

i got no idea, i just searched up gripen a cockpit on google and picked the one that actually looks like the gripen a cockpit in game

Shame the MFD for the Gripen A still isn’t accurate