The Road to Become a Gripen Fighter Pilot
Försvarsmakten's very own series on pilot training called "Road to Become a Fighter Pilot" focuses on the many intensive phases of the training.
This particular episode is all about students getting their first pass to fly the Gripen fighter. The new students have just arrived at Skaraborg Air Force Wing (F 7) in Såtenäs, and are all set to fly Gripen.
The various episodes of the series focus on areas like navigation, fighter exam, first single flight, low-level flying, simulator training, incident preparedness, and air combat.
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Gripen technology put to the test in offensive missions at Cruzex 2024
2 min
Destroying, disrupting or limiting enemy military aviation: these are basically the objectives of Offensive Counterair (OCA), one of the air force tasks in which the Gripen E is being deployed during Cruzex 2024.
Dispersed operations with Gripen - resilient combat effect that counts
5 min
The war in Ukraine has compelled air forces to re-learn some important forgotten lessons. If any air base can be attacked without warning, how can your fighter force survive to operate and continue defending your nation?
Gripen undergoes tropical testing in northern Brazil
3 min
The recent climate tests conducted in Belém and Salinópolis exposed the Gripen to hot and humid conditions, with temperatures reaching approximately 35ºC and humidity of 85% at sea level.
Hungarian Air Force and Gripen – many milestones reached
3 min
On Friday 26th April, the morning at the Kecskemét Airbase looked a bit different than standard morning – technicians were not working around the Gripen fleet, pilots were not preparing for their next mission (but of course, everyone was still ready for Alpha scramble should it come).
Deploy. Survive. Win.
5 min
The Gripen fighter system exists to guarantee air superiority in time of war. Sweden’s operational requirements for Gripen were driven by a superpower threat of all-out conflict across air, land and sea. This simple statement hides the highest possible objective; national survival. The result was a fighter from Saab that is threat-driven at every point in its design, and utterly unique.
Behind the scenes of a Gripen air-to-air photo-shoot
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Executing a successful air-to-air photo-shoot requires quite a lot of planning and a bit of luck with the weather. At Saab Aeronautics communications department we made a formal request to the Swedish Air force to use one of their C-130 Hercules and a Gripen C aircraft to be able to shoot footage of the Gripen C and Gripen E flying together.
Brazilian Gripen E conducts IRST tests in simulated aerial combat
2 min
The Brazilian Gripen E aircraft with registration FAB 4100, dedicated to tests in Brazil, took part in a flight test campaign in Anápolis (GO) to assess the Infrared Search and Track (IRST), a passive long-range target detection sensor.
The Brazilian Air Force receives another Gripen E.
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The fighter jet, with registration FAB 4107, landed at Anápolis Air Base (BAAN) on Friday morning, December 15.
Hungarian Gripen exercised in field conditions
2 min
The Adaptive Hussars 2023 exercise of the Hungarian Defence Forces brought pilots, technicians and equipment of the MH Szentgyörgyi Dezső 101st Aviation to the Lake Balaton area. Here, at Sármellék, a former air base used by Soviet Air Force for more than 33 years ago, acted as the new environment for five Hungarian Gripen fighters and its personell.
Gripen fighters at NATO Tiger Meet 2023
3 min
Gripen fighters from the two NATO countries Hungary and Czech Republic participated as usual. Both countries have a long story of participation in NATO led exercises and air policing assignments with their Gripens and NATO Tiger Meet is not an exception.