Gripen: What we must learn from Sweden

8 juni 2023

The Saab Gripen is a 4.5th generation aircraft designed for austere, decentralized, dispersed operations. While the Swedish Air Force gets great value out of the JAS 39, many air forces such as the United States Air Force, the Luftwaffe, or the Royal Air Force operate completely differently. How well suited is the Gripen and dispersal operations in NATO's air forces?

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• Bronk, Justin. Regenerating Warfighting Credibility for European NATO Air Forces, RUSI Whitehall Report 1-23.
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• 00:00 - Aspiration for NATO? Gripen and the Swedish Air Force
• 00:33 - NATO and the Swedish Air Force model
• 02:09 - Gripen: 21st Century Dispersal
• 04:20 - NATO: Importing Skill
• 05:50 - Gripen: Specialized Tool
• 07:51 - Basing: Budgetary Efficiency
• 11:10 - Training: Making Decisions
• 15:51 - Mentality: Risk Appetite
• 20:04 - This is where we are at

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