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Media: Sweden to consider sending Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)

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[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They basically started designing a jet 50 years ago

This became the Viggen (development actually started over 60 years ago), with some help from the US, especially for the engine, which is basically a P&W JT8D with afterburner. Still a very impressive STOL-capable Mach-2 fighter jet, one of the very few with thrust reversers.

The Gripen is the 4th-gen successor, with much of the original design parameters retained, but with modern "relaxed stability"-aerodynamics for higher agility, and digital avionics.