• AttackPanda@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I was under the impression that there just weren’t enough Grippens available to really help Ukraine. I would love to see them get these fighters in a decent number.

    • Skua@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      This has been raised as a concern before. Reuters is reporting that it’d be a relatively small (but definitely still significant) number sent over, somewhere in the high teens, so it’s actually possible that these are previously-decommissioned examples that have been restored or something. There are apparently 24 of Sweden’s original fleet in hangar storage awaiting decommission, so it wouldn’t seem out of the question. To be clear though this is me guessing, I don’t have a source

  • Beanbag_Ninja@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It will certainly be interesting to see what Ukraine’s air force looks like after the war, and what aircraft they will look to for the future.

  • 1984
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    1 year ago

    Sweden is supposed to be neutral… I guess not anymore. Also joining Nato.

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Not neutral but alliance free. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and drove both Finland and Sweden into NATO.

      Finland joining NATO has to be the biggest self own ever for Russia.