When did the Grippen achieved A 108:0 kill ratio???? Are you sure that you had the conversation with a Grippen pilot? Sounds more like a Saab marketing guy :p

As for international exercises, the Grippen faced Finnish F 18 and Norwegians F 16 MLU. Both performd bettre than the Grippens… :diablo:

Anyway, comparing the Grippen with the F 22 is hilarious.

I’m not comparing the Gripen to the F-22 in that sense.

And for your information the Gripen walked all over the F-16’s and F-18’s. The F-18’s didn’t win a single encounter.

Here are some excerpts from Jane’s weekly defence magazine, February issue no 029.

During ACM the gripen outperformed the F-16’s and the F-18’s with BVR and WVR engagements. In fact, 1 gripen took out 4 F-18’s before the pilots even knew the gripen was in the area…

The gripen’s small body and consequent agility proved a great advantage during aerial dogfights. Despite a lowered thrust to weight ratio,with the aid of the gripen’s superior flight computers it was able to get behind the
F-16 everytime.Even though both aircraft could sustain 9g +

Excellent shots Papa Lima! It was a great day! Although I have 1:st degree burns on my arms, legs and face! But I’ll live through it! 😀

I found it difficult to get good shots with all the heat blur, and also the sun shining on the wrong side of the runway!

But it was a good airshow! 🙂

I’d say my favorite is probably the Fw 190D. 🙂

Internal fuel capacity for the Gripen is ~3000 liters, external capacity ~3500 liters. Ferry range with external tanks 3500km.

I agree. It is unlikely that the planes in question will be “scrapped.”

Perhaps the real intention is to sell the Gripens in question to Saab or BAE Systems for “scrap value?”

Think again, they will be scrapped, be sure. We’re dealing with Swedish leftwinged politics here. The past have shown that this is for real. When we upgraded our JA37’s to D standard the politicians all of a sudden decided to scrap the Viggen system. Newly modified Viggens that costed Billions to upgrade didn’t even make it out to the squadrons, they went straight to the scrap heap.

So basically you’re judging the professionalism of the US military by the behavior of a few? Nice.

Sigh. Whatever, man. :rolleyes: