This has been sounded very strange even for a country like Brazil, and I do not think the problem was with the translator for the Portuguese language, yet apparently all facts has been pointing the 36 Gripen E/F that will be delivered to Brazil would be restricted only for air defense missions, and therefore it will not be capable of attack missions.
Until recently I just thought that were rumors had been associated with the nonsensical speech about political rhetoric’s of the former Brazilian presidents , in this case that Gripen E / F would have been chosen only for air defense of the Brazil airspace, as well as the lack of interest in this moment about to equip the Gripen E/F with ground or maritime attack weapons, since for now the Brazil has been only interested in to equip the Gripen E/F with BVR and WVR air-to-air missiles.
However such important fact has been recently appeared with an interview about two Brazilian pilots that had completed the training with Gripen C/D in Sweden at F7 Satens in 2015 before the leasing of the 12 Gripen C / D as well as training of the remains 14 pilots were canceled by the Government of Brazil. Then to resume these first two pilots had been completed the training after flew 55 missions with Gripen C / D and received 50 hours in simulator, just to highlight these two pilots had extensive experience with F 5EM and Mirage 2000C/D in Brazil.
However those two pilots had been only training for air-to-air missions or air defense missions, once the Gripen C / D that would have been supplied for Brazil should have been capable only for air-to-air missions, without the capabilities for attack or reconnaissance missions.
This is totally strange once the Gripen C / D has been a multirole fighter (air defense, ground attack, anti-ship attack and reconnaissance), but in the case of Brazil the Gripen C/D would have been configured for air defense missions without attack and reconnaissance capabilities.
If this fact with the Gripen C / D had been restricted with air-air missions would not be very strange at all,then what has been making it even more stranger should be that the Gripen C / D should be the basis for pilots training until the arrival of Gripen E / F .
In fact today Brazil has a multirole fighter that are the modernized version F 5EM Tiger II, and this has been already configured even for anti-radar missions with the missile MAR 1 that has been already been exported by Brazil to Pakistan.
The Brazil has been currently using the LGB with Lightening pods from Israel in fighter-bombers AMX, as well as the F 5EM with WVR and BVR missiles for air-air missions, but the most important that Brazil has been developed an AVT 300 cruise missile that will be launched from the ground by MRLS ASTROS 2, as well as some projects of GPS / INS glide bombs, in addition to MAR 1 itself, but none of these projects has been mentioned that could be integrated in the future with the Gripen E / F. In the case of the AVT 300 cruise missile the same has been applied with the new submarines of the class Scorpene that would be constructed in Brazil.
The Gripen C/D should have been replaced the Mirage 2000C/D that were withdrawn from service in 2013, as well as the AMX and F 5EM( Gripen C/D too) will be withdrawn from service when the 36 Gripen E / F could become operational, but if the former planned 12 Gripen C / D would have been restricted for air-to-air missions until the arrival of the 36 Gripen E / F, at least it seems that Brazil doesn’t want to equip the 36 Gripen E / F with attack weapons, in this case apparently the former presidents of Brazil would have spoken the truth so far in this matters.
Face meets palm.
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