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.
They have used i believe Litening III on their mig29k if i remember correctly it might not be their mig29ks but i remember seeing them use western pod on russian planes
