^ Im not much of a navy guy, but how is Germany’s reputation as a post Cold War ship builder?
I know their armored vehicles are well regarded. not sure if their ships

Swerve and Tonnyc is correct.

you need to separate what haves from what we want.

The Gripen C is already flying with BVRAAMs and Meteor, as well as being integrated with a variety of weapons. In other words its operational.

the FA-50 has the POTENTIAL to fly with BVRAAMs, its posed next to mock ups with BVRAAMs, but it hasn’t completed integration tests with it. As far as I can tell, the FA-50 is only operational with basic short range missiles and dumb munitions (rockets, bombs). Unless a customer is willing to pay for it, it will never reach that same level of operational status as a Gripen or F-16.
The Koreans probably have no intention of doing so since they have plenty of other planes tasked for that. It will have to be up to an export order. And why would they do that when there are plenty of F-16s, Gripens, etc going around.

Gripen C > FC-1 >>> F/A-50

Unless KAI makes some serious advances in integrating a greater variety of weapons on their jet and make it faster.

thanks for the clarification.
yeah I also have some questions about the AESA seeker as the radome looks unique. (also any explanation to why its asymmetrical)?

I was under the impression this was cancelled in favor of I-Derby-ER

not surprisingly the B and C models are where most of the problems (many of which seem serious) lie.