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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that there just weren’t enough Grippens available to really help Ukraine. I would love to see them get these fighters in a decent number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This has been raised as a concern before. Reuters is reporting that it'd be a relatively small (but definitely still significant) number sent over, somewhere in the high teens, so it's actually possible that these are previously-decommissioned examples that have been restored or something. There are apparently 24 of Sweden's original fleet in hangar storage awaiting decommission, so it wouldn't seem out of the question. To be clear though this is me guessing, I don't have a source

[–] theGrey 3 points 1 year ago

The Gripen is such a beautiful aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It will certainly be interesting to see what Ukraine's air force looks like after the war, and what aircraft they will look to for the future.