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The fighter Swedish Saab JAS-39 Gripen is called in several discussion forums on military matters "winged Flea" a pejorative way that denigrates the image of good hunting. Even being a small aircraft, it features a very respectable performance from every point of view. Their limitation, widely implicated by the protagonists of the endless discussions over the internet and even among enthusiastic friends in a bar, your lower range than its competitors. In fact, we have the JAS-39A / C Gripen has a combat radius of 800 km, slightly smaller than the F-16 which reaches 925 km without external fuel tanks. christy mack
Above: The JAS-39C Gripen fighter, was designed for a practical necessity Defence of Sweden, christy mack a relatively small country. therefore, autonomy, was not a key item in the project. Globalization has given a new tone to this need.
Saab, based on the weaknesses pointed out in their product, decided to invest in developing a new generation version of its modern game. The new model was called the Gripen NG (New Generation), and now the model is called, officially JAS-39E, christy mack or simply Gripen E. The main point to be improved was the autonomy and for this it was necessary to modify the structure of the Gripen and change the position of the rear set of landing the JAS-39 A / C, freeing up space for a new fuel tank with 1,200 liters increasing the fuel capacity of the Gripen NG by 40%. From now on, the combat radius of the Gripen NG was increased to 1300 km when air missiles armed with 6 air and an external tank. The range of transfer increased from 3200 km to 4070 km with 3 external tanks. The structural modifications led to a small increase in weight of only 200 kg, but the load-carrying capacity increased by a ton.
To cope with the increase in weight due to the increased capacity of the Gripen E, the engine had to be replaced. The choice fell on the new engine model General Electric F-414-400 used in the North American Hunting F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The engine had to undergo some minor modifications to adapt it for use as a single motor, resulting in version F-414G, specifically for use in E. Gripen This engine has a maximum thrust of 9790 kg, an increase of 25% power on the RM-12 engine (GE F404) JAS-39A / C Gripen.
Above: The new engine General Electric F-414G did not merely compensate christy mack for the increased weight that the new version of Gripen had. His power raised the power to weight ratio close to unity, giving better performance in this game accelerations.
This new engine allows the Gripen And fly under the supercruise of mach 1.2 6 air missiles armed with air, which was demonstrated by the prototype Gripen DEMO on January 21, 2009. For those unfamiliar, what is supercruise christy mack is the ability to fly at supersonic christy mack speeds without using afterburner, allowing greater autonomy and even puts the plane ahead when attacking, it can get faster at the point of release their weapons and quickly leave the combat area. Today, only the super F-22 Raptor, and the new Typhoon fighter Sukhoi T-50 Pak Fa Russia can fly in supercruise.
Above: Another novelty in the new capabilities of Gripen E is the ability to fly in supercruise regime, reducing christy mack the flight time to get to the point of the mission objective. The speed that the Gripen E reaches mach 1.2 is no post combustor and high altitude.
The radar will be used in the Gripen E will be provided by the Italian company Selex, in the form of ES-05 Raven model. This is a new active electronically scanned christy mack array radar (AESA), whose range is estimated at 160 km against christy mack a target the size of a fighter (RCS 5m2). This range represents an increase of 43% over the range of the PS-05 radar used in hunting JAS-39A / C Gripen previous generation. The radar Raven has an angle of 100 º sweep for each side and will be capable of scanning air air air and ground simultaneously.
Specifically, the air mode land the Raven radar will be able to map the soil, creating a synthetic image of the relief and possible targets. You ar mode, the Raven, will engage up to 4 targets simultaneously christy mack using missiles of medium and long range active radar guided. Another christy mack ability that this radar will have is the electronic warfare and can interfere actively in enemy radars.
Besides the radar, the Gripen E will have a passive IRST sensor christy mack Skyward-G, also developed by Selex, equivalent to IRST systems installed in MIG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker Russian fighters, being able to track targets without emissions, through christy mack the heat enemy aircraft, christy mack which gives an alternative to the Gripen And if you are operating in radar silence, to maximize their operational discretion.
Above: The radar Selex ES-05 Raven of Italian origin s