The negative static stability is not modeled at all.
The thrust is above real world performance a bit (and drag is higher than it should be as a result).
The top speed is far too high, acceleration in supersonic region as well as when ordnance is mounted.
Overall, specific excess power is seemingly far too high… the aircraft needs to be reworked in the future but Gaijin isn’t willing to make such changes on aircraft once they’ve been in the game for a while. This is probably how it will remain for quite some time.
Not the only aircraft with wrong thrust sometimes they leave how it is as they can’t get it to work
Like the Harriers thrust is wrong but its only like that as wouldn’t take off if it was for some reason
That is quite a unique case, there aren’t really many other aircraft in the game with incorrect thrust. Those that do have incorrect thrust lack necessary information to model them properly. In the case of the Gripen it was just a developer decision.
So how about the G limit and AoA? The SDU-10 has an option to disable the limit, but I think the limit can also be " overridden" by increasing force on stick.
The answer is that the Gripen is very likely overperforming compared to its real life counterpart. It is a .9 thrust to weight ratio delta wing fighter…which usually translates to high AoA ability and speed bleed in War Thunder, but for whatever reason Gaijin decided to make the flight model feel extremely similar to the F-16A because that just happens to be what it is most commonly compared to.
Is this accurate? Most likely no. However most of the people saying that it isn’t don’t have any proof outside of basically saying “look at it…it’s a delta wing like M2K…ergo it should perform the same or worse in turns.”
There really isn’t any evidence one way or the other about Gripen flight performance. I think it is a perfectly reasonable question to ask why it ends up performing the way that it does in the game when there doesn’t seem to be a lot of basis for it.
Probably the best kinetic idea for the Gripen is an F-16 with slightly worse steady state agility and better instantaneous.
It doesn’t have as powerful an engine, but then again it has better aerodynamics.
It has dogshit IRCCM because nato crybabies want it to be like that. While 9M gets better IRCCM than it had IRL. Good luck hitting a grippen on auto flare for 10 minutes. Good luck dogfighting anything in SU-27, it sucks at what it was designed for in the game.
