Saab JAS 39 Gripen
Swedish fighter designed to rearm on a public road with six people and a truck.
- Road basing
- Canard delta
- Small ground crew
- Very low running cost
Specification
- Origin
- Sweden
- Manufacturer
- Saab
- Role
- Multirole
- Generation
- 4.5
- Introduced
- 1996
- Combat type
- Air
- Spawn code
- safg39
On the server
The Gripen entered Swedish service in 1996 and was designed around a doctrine rather than a specification. Sweden expected its airbases to be destroyed early in a war, so the aircraft had to operate from ordinary stretches of road, land in under six hundred metres, and be refuelled and rearmed in about ten minutes by a small conscript ground crew working out of a truck. The letters JAS stand for the three roles it covers: fighter, attack and reconnaissance. On MCS the Gripen is the light, cheap, extremely agile option. The canard delta gives it a sharp nose and the small airframe makes it hard to see, and it can put down and take off from places that would wreck a heavier jet. It carries less fuel and fewer weapons than a twin engine fighter. Recommended for players who value agility and improvised basing over payload.