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🇸🇪 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E
Air · Saab AB (İsveç) · 2019
Sweden's agile single-engine 4.5-gen fighter that is cheap to maintain, can take off from roads, and strikes from afar with the Meteor missile.
Specifications
- Class: Single-engine 4.5-gen multirole fighter
- Engine: 1× General Electric F414G, 98 kN max thrust
- Max speed: ~Mach 2 (≈2,400 km/h, high altitude)
- Combat radius: ~1,300 km (6 air-to-air missiles + external tanks)
- Radar: Leonardo Raven ES-05 AESA + Skyward-G IRST
- EW: Arexis integrated EW suite (spherical coverage)
- Hardpoints: 10 stations; up to 7 Meteor BVR missiles
- Weapons: Meteor, IRIS-T, precision-guided bombs, 27 mm cannon
- Operators: Gripen E: Sweden (60), Brazil (36); C/D: South Africa, Hungary, Czechia, Thailand
Beats: F-16 Block 70 (Arexis EH süiti ve dağıtık üs hayatta-kalmasıyla), Rafale ve Eurofighter Typhoon (uçuş-saati maliyeti ve saha bakım sadeliğinde)
Loses to: Rafale ve Eurofighter Typhoon (çift-motor itki, faydalı yük ve muharebe yarıçapında), F-35A (gizlilik/düşük gözlenebilirlik ve sensör füzyonunda)
Chosen to give a country that can't afford expensive twin-engine fighters Meteor-range reach cheaply and with low logistics burden.
Related systems
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM