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This comes across as really uniformed. Gripen is a pinnacle of aerospace engineering, providing abilities to handle unique infrastructural and geographical scenarios present in Sweden and northern Europe. It covers all abilities you would otherwise get with an F-35 at a third of the cost. It is simply remarkable how genius it is.

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It lacks the range and, most significantly, low-observability of the F-35.

Gripen is a 1980s design updated with the latest software, just like Typhoon and Rafale. The F-35 is a 2000s design, there's just no way to close the stealth gap with it.

Stealth gets a lot less effective when either bistatic or passive radar is used. I'm fairly certain that we'll find out in the long run that it's been countered by our adversaries.

This vulnerability is why KrakenSDR had to pull one of their git repos a few years ago.

Stealth might help at long ranges, but think of it like locks on doors, only effective at keeping honest people out.

This kind of thing is why ECM and stealth are not substitutes for each other. They work best when they work together.

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