IF Norway Will but 56 aircraft, 4 Will be based in US so only 52 available for norwegian/ north european safety. MSphere’s Numbers makes more sense than Eskodas.

Tomorrow its 6 years since I started to follow this forum and tomorrow its 6 years since Jens Stoltenberg declared that Norway was to pick JSF rather than Gripen, apparently it was much cheaper and better too. Actually the F35 was so affordable that the Life Cycle Cost of F35 would be lower than Gripen even if the Gripens was given to Norway for free.

Thnx for that backstabbing but perhaps time for a reality check now? 🙂

Its also nice to note the trend over the years, back then Gripen was very much an outsider rarely mentioned. Today its likely to be the last western 4++gen fighter to stay in production. Quite different to the “few dozens” that Jens mentioned…

#posts in this thread over the years
2010 150 posts
2011:75 posts
2012:300posts
2013:770posts
2014:670posts today and still counting

Lets hope that the positive trend continues in the years to come!

Gripen deal ready & signed in Brazil 🙂
source in Swedish, http://www.di.se/artiklar/2014/10/27/saabs-jatteaffar-ar-klar/

I strongly doubt that Sweden would even like to sell to Argentina unless UK/US agree.

This info is clearly related to Gripen NG with most pictures/drawings showing the Demo aircraft. I really hope that the Gripen E didn’t gain 1,3 t of weight despite having a lighter airframe. SAAB managed to send a very bad & confusing message.

First pictures of mockup of Gripen E final configuration

http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/forsta-bilderna-pa-nya-gripenmodellen_3756212.svd?sidan=1

The only differences from the Demo that I spot are;

At the base of the canards
PAWS II demands bigger “bulges” than the MAWS 300 of the Demo

Base of tail fin
There is a new air inlet

I can not spot any RCS reducing measures.

That chart is a joke and shows no proportion with figures produced by Jane’s with respect to operational costs. E.g. F-35 ($31,000/hour estimated) should be about twice as far to the right as Rafale and Typhoon (~$16,000/hour), i.e. off edge of chart. F-22 should be off the chart completely to the right ($44,000/hour).

Note that they say the $8,200/hour for the Typhoon is only fuel, but somehow the Gripen fits fuel and maintenance in $4,700/hour, implying maintenance costs of ~$500/hour, which is probably less than some BMWs.:stupid: SAAB LOL, even the Swedish people rejected them.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-18/saab-loses-3-5-billion-jet-order-as-swiss-reject-gripen.html

Do the different aircrafts above use the same fuel..? What about cost /litre of those? Does anyone here know about cost/liter?