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Originally Posted by Skybird
1000 Swedish Gripen interceptors...? Never. Who should fly these? Mountain trolls?
Compoare, Germany, with a much biugger population, at the height of the cold war operated 900+ Starfighter (of which a third crashed). Why did they crash? Well, lacking maintenace cpaacity of the Luftwaffe had much to do with it. Too many planes for too few service engineers and too stressed supply logistics (spareparts). Sweden has much smaller armed forces, even back then. No chance they can maintain and supply one thousand combat aircraft.
Too low training capacities also should be mentioned. The Gripen is a Swedish design, you will not find instructor centres in other countries where Swedish pilots would be trained (like f.e. Lufthansa trains pilots for other airlines as well).
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I made a search in case i was remembering wrong..which it so far looks like it...Where did I get 1000 from.
This is from the Swedish MoD 2001.
"The Swedish Armed Forces has now announced that it does not need all the 204 JAS 39 Grips ordered until 2007."
Yes it was 204 the government ordered in the end of the 90'ies.
I even read this among the Swedish homepage about JAS 39 Gripen
It's from 2012.
Today, on paper, we have about 100 JAS 39s in Sweden, of which about 72 are attached to the four divisions that are part of the operational organization (171st, 172nd, 211st and 212nd divisions). Other plans are used for education, development etc.
In the future, however, we will only have between 40 and 60 JAS 39 E / F, which means halving the air combat forces.
Trying to figure out where I got this 1000 from.
Markus