Gripen masterminds

Stefan Degraef and Edwin Borremans visit the Swedish vAir Force’s Gripen Operational Test and Evaluation Unit, where a small but important community is responsible for trials of all Gripen-related hardware and software destined for the front line. Linköping-Malmen air base on September 14 last. A single JAS 39C Gripen, callsign ‘Hammer 01’, blasts off from runway 19 before heading west… The pilot, an experienced 37-year-old Flygvapnet (Swedish Air Force) captain, belongs to the Malmen-based Taktisk Utprovningsenhet JAS (TU JAS, Gripen