F-16 vs Gripen E - Which would win?

One of the pitches for the Gripen is that it only takes a few minutes for it to get ready and take off. It can land on very short runways (including roads) and then can be fully re-armed, re-fuelled and up in the air in less than 15 minutes. The whole process can be completed by 6 people and all the equipment necessary can be mobile.

no disrespect to any other fighters, including Norwegian pilots because they’re just as well trained, but during a combat exercise with the Royal Norwegain Air Force in 2006 at a red flag exercise, 3 Swedish Gripens went up against 5 RNAF F-16’s. The Result was 5-0, 5-0, 5-1 after having flown 3 rounds. So the Gripens are a killing machine in combats against F16s.

Swedish people should be extremely proud of what the Saab aero has accomplished! I’m a really proud swede!

Gripen first participated in Red Flag 2006 with the Gripen A, It was assigned to the red team. Reduced AWACS, reduced ground support. The Gripens connected their link systems and acted themselves as AWACs, got the battlefield awareness necessary and avoided all ground defence, scored 10 kills the first day including a Typhoon. No losses they remained undetected. One Gripen pilot knocked down five F-16 block 50+ during close air combat in Red Flag Alaska. And the Gripens never lost any aerial encounter or failed their mission objectives. It was the only fighter that performed all planed starts, while others were sitting on the ground waiting for the weather to clear up. The evaluation was that Gripen capacity needed to be revaluated.

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Swedish quality, love from Norway! edit: gotta love all the people shitting on sweden for the Gripen being compared to the f-16, like theyre forgetting the us military budget is like 110 times larger

I live in Sweden and often see JAS 39 Gripen them passing through the sky, making cool manouevres as part of either a military exercise or something else (For example a number of Gripens always fly over the country on Sweden’s national Day or during christmas). Every time i see a Gripen, i get proud of the planes we swedes have made throughout the years.

With the Gripen-E it took the aircraft to another level and greater competitiveness, combining the best of both technologies. Great partnership with Brazil. Congratulations!

I am very happy that my country is buying some Gripens 🇧🇷🇸🇪

Gripen E

The F16 is battle tested but it is a very old platform. No matter how good Lockheed upgrades its radar and service life, it’s still a platform that excelently performed in the 80s and 90s. It is in comparison easily outclassed by the smartness of the new gripen E. The gripen E was also not designed to be stealthy but it also happens that it has a very low RCS which means that it is the stealthiest among all non-stealth plane in the world. When you add to that the fact that its radar can actually detect stealth planes, you know you have a winner.

The Gripen is a good aircraft that the Philippine Air Force must consider buying.

The Gripen can stay in the air way longer....

As an immigrant in Sweden, let me tell you,Kingdome of Sweden has EVERYTHING when it comes to tech, and many other fields.

The F-16 has been an outstanding aircraft and still is a worthy adversary, but the Gripen is superior! Which should be expected, being a more modern platform.

My dad was a General Supervisor at General Dynamics in Ft. Worth. He was supervising the mechanics who worked on the YF-16 in 1972 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. I had the privilege of sitting in the YF-16 with the red, white, and blue livery. The YF-16 was shown to 8 NATO countries in 1973 or thereabout.

Gripen, can't go wrong with some good old Swedish engineering.

Honestly im just proud the Swedes put this together before selling it for once.

Gripen. Best plane ever ( Ex pilot ) Best plane and takes off small roads anywhere.. most of ALL Swedish roads are ready or could be ready as a functional runway in a matter of hours.. Miss it.. ❤️

The Philippine Air force is getting 14 Gripens! So excited!