SWEDISH GRIPEN PLAN TO LIBYA

[Gerald]

The government is proposing to Parliament that Sweden will send eight Gripen planes to Libya. The Bill was passed since NATO arrived with a formal request. A total of 130 will participate in the operation of up to three months' time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen




Note: 29/3 2011

[the_tyrant]

I always liked Swedish munitions
This is a great chance for the Saab JAS 39 Gripen to prove itself

[Gerald]

Two other planes will be also send, signal and reconnaissance planes

[Herr-Berbunch]

Hang about! Sending Grippens TO Libya? Not somewhere near Libya to enforce the UN Security Council Resolution 1973?

Whose side are they on?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

I always liked Swedish munitions
This is a great chance for the Saab JAS 39 Gripen to prove itself

It is true, the plan is probably from the Nordic Battle Group

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Hang about! Sending Grippens TO Libya? Not somewhere near Libya to enforce the UN Security Council Resolution 1973?

Whose side are they on?

It is the first time since 1961 (Congo) and Swedish fighter jets deployed in armed circumstances, an effort was made for the UN from 1961 to 1963 during the Congo Conflict,and they send A-29 B Saab fighter

[Schroeder]

I think Berbunch was more referring to "sending to Lybia" like giving the planes to Gadaffi rather then to use them with the NATO forces.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

I think Berbunch was more referring to "sending to Lybia" like giving the planes to Gadaffi rather then to use them with the NATO forces.

WTF give away planes, no, no, it's sanctioned by the UN as these will therefore operate from bases such as Crete or Sicily, which I believe

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

I always liked Swedish munitions
This is a great chance for the Saab JAS 39 Gripen to prove itself

Is it? Against what...? Air defence system on the ground is taken out, no enemy fighters are to be feared - and where they would be stupid enough to dare going up, they soon would go down again - they are too old.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Is it? Against what...? Air defence system on the ground is taken out, no enemy fighters are to be feared - and where they would be stupid enough to dare going up, they soon would go down again - they are too old.

Old? Performance, etc,compare with any other plan that is under the current relationship for a long time so there are few, if any, which have better properties, it thought you knew that

[Schroeder]

He meant the Libyan aircraft are too old to be a match for the Gripen or any other Nato aircraft and therefore it can't proof itself as there is simply no true opposition to it.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

He meant the Libyan aircraft are too old to be a match for the Gripen or any other Nato aircraft and therefore it can't proof itself as there is simply no true opposition to it.

Well,in fact you got a point

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

He meant the Libyan aircraft are too old to be a match for the Gripen or any other Nato aircraft and therefore it can't proof itself as there is simply no true opposition to it.

Then again, occasionally the old fighter splashes the top of the line one.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Then again, occasionally the old fighter splashes the top of the line one.

Good reading,

[Gerald]

Gripen is welcomed by NATO, it said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.


We are accustomed to participating countries with certain restrictions. Our military commanders are accustomed to dealing with such, "he said at a press conference in Stockholm today.