why to buy a Gripen if you can buy different F-16s variants which can be upgraded? see Chile no need to buy Gripens just old F-16s and a few new ones and that is enough, face it most Gripen customers are political too, want to join NATO? buy Gripens; but Poland shows get more MiG-29s and a few new F-16s and you get almost the same, Rumania is the same.

If you want to face the T-50 threat you need F-35s at least or your own stealth fighter and that is what Japan wants to do.
The Gripen is seen as the second best option to the F-35 or F-22.
it means you want stealth not canards, the F-22 and F-35 show that

Gripen is second in WLO, if you want to pay for it. Thats all right with me.
If you want to fight T-50, i would get the meteor on a 4 gen fighter as LO as possible and a last gen IRST and good datalinks. the stated RCS isnt WLO, just LO for T-50. To be on the safe side, i would use the best possible tactics for my craft. Gripen NG and Rafale last gen fits that bill, probably Eurofighter as well. Dont forget you probably get more 4 gen fighters than 5 gen for the same bill.

F-16, if you want an earlier design with big RCS for the same price.

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2010/05/flash-gripen-demo-clears-leh-trials.html

That is not a cobra. is a banking recovery due to lack of efficient lateral stability

so it isnt high AoA? 😉

no?!
if the center of gravity is in the rear part of the wings it has a bigger moment arm to close coupled canard(or any form of canard). that is a fact.
if it was a stable platform it would have been the other way around

Well, jeez let me just dig out a picture of a production F-23 just for jackjack. The YF-23 (the prototype) was indeed considered very stealthy. That’s what everyone is getting at. Northrop knows very well what they are doing when it comes to stealth. If a slightly exposed fan surface was such a huge deal then they wouldn’t have designed the aircraft like that.

Radar waves are not going to bounce back off the fan blade directly in the same direction in the same direction that they came. You will have some scattering due to edge diffraction back in the direction out of the inlet, and maybe some due to specular reflection (judging by the geometry of the blades, this will be almost nothing), but the majority of the waves will be bounced around elsewhere (like the walls of the presumably RAM coated inlets). Also, fan blades can be RAM coated as well.

as it is a prototype….
all stealth features as for examble blockers, arent operational..
they would probably have a solution for a operational F-23…

The MiG-29 will have a better sustained turn than the Gripen that is a fact.

a fact?!
any reference on that and what version?

All three, this one, Tejas and F-35 is hi-winged and not so much blended wingbody as earlier modells like eurocanards(little more), and f-22(much more).

why hi-winged then? it should be less roll performance and less structural stealth than a smoother, “2-angle belly” blended wingbody.

Wishfull thinking as usual … ;), its not really an issue because France has not the power (the right) to stop or even slow these negociations between EU and Mercosur. And don’t worry, in France, the military-industrial lobby is at least as powerfull as the agricultural one …

whatever…
it does not change anything in EU agri-politics or brazil agri-politics