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Gripen for Ukraine: Ukrainian Air Force Pilots Already Training on Swedish Fighters
Ukrainian pilots and technical personnel are already training on the Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets, which are soon to enter service with the Ukrainian Air Force.This was announced by […]
militarnyi.com
I imagine pilots are being trained on Gripen C, enabling earlier EIS with Ukrainian air force after delivery (expected 2027).
It will be interesting to see what effect the introduction of a high lethality, long range A2A missile into the theatre will have on Russian tactics. If one or two Russian aircraft used to launch glide bombs are lost to Meteor, Russia may be forced to rethink its use of glide bomb attacks against Ukraine.
