selvagor wrote:popcorn wrote:He can't accept that the French apple-of-his-eye doesn't even get to go to the ball. Surely Dassault can offer a Denmarkized Rafale that will be cheaper and better solution?
You're right and a sweded F-35 will be even cheaper.
The majority of swedish equipment is imported. They are not magic and even they know this.
The gripen is cheap because its basically a trainer class aircraft built to fight. F-5 like basically.
If gripen was as amazing as the internet thinks their sales would be through the roof, and the Swedish economy would hinge around revolutionizing avaition, especially the civil side