Maybe he defected to russia?

On a serious note, hope he is found alive and well even if the odds are against him 🙁

No problem in terms of signature. Next iteration (version 5) will should also yield roughly 10 fold RCS reduction due to the removal of the mast, railings, and repositioning/conformal sensors. (Whenever version 5 will see the light of day.. is up to debate though ;))

The problem lies in that *ANY* weapon except the bofors gun is missing. That includes Torpedo 45 against submarines, RBS-15 against ships, and any SAM system.

And then there are other “minor” things like Link 16 integration still missing. Helicopter hangar scrapped, etc. I could go on for awhile ..

An example could be that the delta-canard design that was the basis of LM’s MRF/CALF was changed into a more conventional tailplane design.

The reason for this was that they assesed that the delta-canard design coupled with the lift-fan solution would have been considered to risky and they would potentially have lost the contract. Which is a shame, but understandable.

Kudos for that! Nice compilation. Only negative thing is that I had to google translate it, but it worked out fine 🙂

Yeah, they are flying a sub-scale demonstrator. I remember reading about it earlier, cannot remember where though.

RBS-70, BAMSE and the alike is not regardes as an offensive system either. The argumentation for this is that they are used to protect national air space and not
for offensive raids. That’s what I meant with bypassing the laws using creative specification of the systems.

US cannot embargo the Gripen engine to countries it is ready to sell it’s own similair systems to, per an agreement signed in 1999 (or 2000? do not remember the date).

RBS-70 was sold to Iran by Singapore, not by Sweden.

Anyhow. Like Arrows said, lets go back to the focus of this thread.

If I were a betting man I would bet that you will see a follow-on order for giraffe’s and a C4I solution being announced in the coming 2-3 months

Well no, the press release does not give any numbers at all. It just specifies that the SAAB 2000 AWE&C system consists of an SAAB 2000 aircraft coupled with an Erieye radar.

The amount of such systems in the sale is not disclosed per agreement with the customer.