Micael Johansson, the CEO of Swedish company Saab, confirmed to Swedish media that Portugal and Canada are studying whether to buy the JAS 39 Gripen E/F fighter jet.
Micael Johansson, the CEO of Swedish company Saab, confirmed to Swedish media that Portugal and Canada are studying whether to buy the JAS 39 Gripen E/F fighter jet.
The way to run it would be dispersed across the wilderness and not in the air for too long at any one time. That was Sweden’s plan (and why it’s built to resist ingestion of loose rocks among other things), and it would be Canada’s as well just on a much larger scale. That may or may not be enough to overcome the lack of stealth, though. It’s hard to say with public information.
The rest of the EU has a bit of a wilderness shortage, so probably it’s not a good fit. South Korea has an F-35 clone they’re selling, or the EU could just break their agreement with the US and code their own jailbroken software for the F-35.