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Published contract evidence from 2025 shows recent Gripen E/F deals range from about €3.1 billion for 17 jets (≈$3.6bn total) to previous large-package references such as Brazil’s ~$4.7bn for 36 F‑39E...
Canada signed a deal in January 2023 to acquire 88 F‑35A aircraft with an announced acquisition price of CAD 19 billion (reported as $19 billion in Canadian government materials) and life‑cycle costs ...
The Raven ES‑05 is an X‑band AESA fire‑control radar developed by Selex/Leonardo for the Gripen E/F; its headline capability is a roll‑repositionable AESA antenna that gives a very wide field of regar...
Available reporting shows multiple public claims and veteran recollections that Gripen aircraft performed strongly in multinational exercises (notably Red Flag/Red Flag Alaska 2006 and other war games...
A clear numeric answer depends on which published per‑flight‑hour figure is used: using Saab/Aviation Week’s 2023 estimate of about $22,174 per flight hour yields an annual operating bill of roughly $...
Available reporting shows Gripen is repeatedly presented as a low-maintenance, low-manhour-per-flight-hour fighter — Saab and several analysts cite figures around 10 maintenance man‑hours per flight h...
and members have managed through a combination of of high‑value capabilities, alliance standardisation and bilateral or regional industrial cooperation, while continuing to accept national procurement...
There is no publicly available, formal Air Force or Maple Flag after-action report in the provided reporting that documents direct, official debriefs specifically describing ; the material instead con...
Integrating modern AESA radars improves detection range, electronic-attack and multitasking capabilities for both Gripen and Typhoon, but the reporting does not provide direct, comparable metrics on s...