Gripen: What we must learn from Sweden

The Saab Gripen is a 4.5th generation aircraft designed for austere, decentralized, dispersed operations. While the Swedish Air Force gets great value out of the JAS 39, the current operational concepts, routines and mentality of many air forces such as the United States Air Force, the Luftwaffe, or the Royal Air Force appear incompatible with Sweden’s way of running air operations.

How prepared is NATO for dispersal operations and what can it learn from Sweden? Join me as I delve into this question together with Professor Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute and Dr Sophy Antrobus of the Freeman Air and Space Institute.