im pretty sure it was when the ruskies sent a bear to farnbourgh or fairford, heres another……or the tornado crew forced the bear down……i wonder if that ever happend for real….

i think there was airshow.maybe they just played interception for the crowd 😉 .

index, you might want to know that one right wing party (Folkpartiet) and a politician from a left/middle wing party (miljopartiet) today have declared that they wish to supply some of these Gripens to the Baltic States. They were actually speaking of giving them away for free.

Source: http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_12485743.asp (Swedish)

And regarding tinwings BS about A/B Gripens not being multirole – go read up on history boy. They are called JAS for a reason.

Cliff

i wrote question to our ministry of defence about that. waiting for answer…

Cheap to buy is a simple idea to digest, but who can guarantee cheap post sales support? Especially with a smaller and smaller fleet in operation…

The US aircraft manufacturers (Boeing & Lockheed) political lobbying units in Congress would never let the USAF or US Navy buy foreign fighters once again… What can the Gripen do that the current F-16s in inventory can’t? Nothing.

A localized Gripen C/D might do wonders for HAL in the place of the flagging LCA. Can anyone imagine the results of crossbreeding the Su-30MKI with an Indian developed Gripen?

Does anyone here really think that if France wasn’t able to resist Red Chinese pressure against further sales of M2000 to Taiwan that Sweden might? Hardly!
Forget this possibility! It isn’t going to happen! 😉

Comments?

our relationship with swedes i quite good. their supproting our military. like donating AK-4’s, carl-gustav’s, BV-206 and providing spares for them.

we don’t need ground atack role. what we need now is cheap fighter for air policing. it should replace L-39ZA in that role, because it is too slow and too poorly armed. and i think they would be better than second hand F-16A/B’s (we can’t buy F-16C/D’s , because their too expensive for our little country) , because their brand new and has a lot of more flying hours.

Can’t help wondering…..how effective is that camo given Iraq’s landscape? I mean LARGE PATCHES OF GREEN, DARK SAND & BROWN?

Those machines stick out like a sore thumb in the desert! 😡 Well, if they (either the US or Iraqi AF) had wondered how the IAF Mi-17s should be coloured, I felt they sould have just restrict to one color – Light Sand overall.

agree. it should look liek these iraqi Hueys :
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but camo of this Mi-8 is beautiful 😉 .

Heh’. Case closed! 🙂

But you do make a good point.
Why does that MiG-29 have a US flag both on the fuselage/wings and on the “Fulcrum Farewell USA 2003” logo at the fin? Did the US take over some of the ex-German Fulcrums, and this is sorta like a symbolic gimic?

“Red flag”… look at the tail of second picture of luftwaffe MiG’s. it’s the same plane.

why do they by this two very similar aircraft? it should be very expensive to operate both…

is there mosquitos in second post’s fourth photo?