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
Caractéristiques
- Origine
- Sweden
- Constructeur
- Saab
- Rôle
- Multirole
- Génération
- 4.5
- Mise en service
- 1996
- Type de combat
- Air
- Code de spawn
- safg39
Sur le serveur
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.