That’s quite an incentive for Gates to buy Gripens NG, or some Su-35 at least, instead of these antique F-35 😀
Seriously, just a power output/time-range-to-target manoeuver envelope should show that this is bogus. Even against an unarmed Su-35BM.
Besides, the 35BM will basically feature the same ECM suite as the Su-34, and even the Foxhound didn’t manage to crudely burn through the Fullback’s electronic defenses till it was 10km close (it could have acquired it by other means, of course – the modelisation was of an “unknowing/unfriendly” radar system).
I’ve got 2 hypotheses here:
1) Saab is totally desperate to sell at least some Gripens in any kind of way. It already got so much ready-to-use “old” Gripen airframes in storage (fact) that it even offered the Swiss free spares and maintenance for all the airframe lifetime if they buy some (not NGs, of course)
2) they modelled the fight sim on the “old” Su-35, and without heat-seeking missiles.
3) The Lightning II is a total peace of crap (which is of course not true) and stealth does not have any impact on anything (maybe true in a Swedish physical world 😀 ).
Finally, I find it very touching that Saab is able to model a fight between a Swedish fighter that exists only virtually and a Russian fighter whose ECM and weapon systems are still not finalised even by its own builders :D
Thats exactly what I was wondering….:confused: Maybe they have a time machine…
Seriously….who knows exactly what the KNIRTI L175M Khibiny-M and other things do….
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