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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 ...
Measured on published clean-airframe top speeds, the Gripen E is faster — Saab’s variant is cited at about Mach 2 versus the F-35’s roughly Mach 1.6 — but the real-world answer depends on whether weap...
ALIS (Autonomic Logistics Information System) is the long‑standing, on‑aircraft-and-ground logistics suite that handled mission planning, maintenance scheduling, diagnostics and parts tracking for the...
Public reporting in the supplied sources makes only general, qualitative comparisons of the Gripen E and F‑35A sensor suites — claiming the F‑35 is a fifth‑generation aircraft with “better sensors” wh...
The public reporting and analyses portray the F‑35’s AN/ASQ‑239 as a 5th‑generation, sensor‑centric EW/sensor‑fusion suite that gives the jet very high emitter localization and situational‑awareness c...
Mission-capable (MC) and sortie-per-aircraft metrics for the F-35 show a mixed picture: U.S. Air Force F-35As have operated at roughly half of the time mission-capable in recent years, U.S. services a...
The Department of Defense’s publicly cited “unit” flyaway numbers for recent F‑35 production lots place the A at about $82.5 million, the B at about $109 million, and the C at about $102.1 million — f...
There is no public, sustained record of real combat engagements directly measuring first-detection ranges between the Gripen and the F‑35; most available reporting and analysis compares sensor suites,...
The central claim is that the current White House renovation — a newly proposed — is the most expensive in history, with reported price tags between , paid largely by private donors and starting demol...
Canada has not definitively chosen the Saab Gripen as its next fighter jet; available reporting shows an active, unresolved debate over the F-35, Gripen E, and a possible mixed approach, with politica...
The F-35’s advanced sensor fusion and pilot-display architecture create a consolidated tactical picture that, according to multiple analyses, gives it decisive situational awareness advantages over th...
The F‑35 can fly supersonic without afterburner in certain conditions — commonly reported around Mach 1.2 for a limited “dash” — but manufacturers and analysts dispute whether that meets the technical...
Joe Rogan’s conversations and episode summaries show he and guests have repeatedly cited a mix of skeptics, former military pilots, defense-industry figures, and fringe researchers when discussing adv...
the need for active emissions during strike missions by combining passive sensors, low‑probability‑of‑intercept radar modes, an integrated electronic‑warfare suite, and sensor fusion that leverages of...
Differing sensor-fusion architectures — the F-35’s highly centralized, stealth-optimized fusion versus the Gripen’s integrated-but-federated avionics approach — and the opaque reporting on practices c...
When shifted its industrial and programmatic focus away from Polaris-era systems, allied partners — most notably — faced gaps in sustainment, design input and parts supply that forced expensive, polit...
Official per-aircraft prices for the F‑35 vary depending on what is being counted: recent "flyaway" production averages put the F‑35A around $82.5 million, F‑35B about $109 million, and F‑35C roughly ...
The F‑35A is repeatedly described in the available reporting as setting the benchmark for integrated sensor fusion, helmet displays and deep platform-level integration — “world‑class avionics and sens...
The United States does not currently deploy weapons in orbit, but U.S. forces operate long‑range ballistic missiles that travel through space during flight (for example, Minuteman III ICBMs tested fro...
Software updates, sensor maintenance, and sustainment contracts are central drivers of lifetime operating cost differences between the F‑35 and Gripen: independent audits and reporting show rising and...