🇸🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine Prepares Down Payment for First #Gripen and Rafale Fighter Jets
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this during a briefing after a joint meeting with the members of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada."
militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...
Pylon 2 fitted with old trusty BOY-402 (BOP/B) counter measures dispenser - loaded with six 55 mm cartridges.
Finland even had them on upgraded Saab Draken's.
Still useful.
📷Wiki MKFI / Saab
Arctic Sentry sees Swedish Air Force lead #NATO’s Air Defence mission in Iceland
jfcnorfolk.nato.int/activity/arc...
#Gripen #Flygvapnet
📷: SCPO Samuli Haapala, JFC Norfolk
🇨🇦 Saab sees #Canada as 'great' partner to design next-generation fighter jets
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
🇨🇦 CTV News video and article. #Arctic #Gripen #Flygvapnet
Gripens and F-35s on duty in Iceland
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Malmen Air Base. #TUJAS
🇸🇪 🇨🇴 FAC Commander Major General Silva Rueda visited Malmen to gain deeper insight into how SwAF operates the JAS 39 #Gripen.
"I am very satisfied that the final solution was the Gripen. Not only because it’s a powerful machine, but also because of the concept it was made with."
SRC: Flygvapnet
🇸🇪🇫🇷 Video: Swedish Armed Forces welcoming French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to Malmö.
#NATO allies #StrongerTogether
Video: Försvarsmakten
Photos: FAB / Sargento Müller Marin
🇧🇷 F-39 #Gripen Used for the First Time in Air Defense Alert.
The Brazilian Air force marked an important milestone on Feb 24 when 1º GDA 'Jaguar' sqn launched with Gripen from Anápolis Air Base (BAAN) on an Air Defence Alert.
FAB has now 10 operational F-39 Gripen E.
SRC: FAB
🇹🇭 Cobra Gold 2026 Officially Underway thepattayanews.com/2026/02/25/c...
"The 45th annual Cobra Gold exercise, the largest multilateral military drill in mainland Asia, officially kicked off on February 24, 2026, at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Rayong province, Thailand."
"The Silent Battlefield"
#Gripen
Pic: Saab AB
Pics from 🇧🇷 "Operation Thor" not shared here earlier.
Guided and dumb bomb verification. #Gripen E supports 3 x 500 lbs LGB on its belly or 2 heavy bombs.
With 2 EXT fuel tanks, max 5 LGB (w/o twin store carrier).
Or 2 EXT fuel, 3 LGB, 2 Meteor, 2 IRIS-T.
📷 Ivana G. Soares
🇹🇭 Cobra Gold 2026 starting on Monday.
According to #RTAF there will be some secondary training events with China, India and Australia. Presumably not all together at the same time.
And staff exercise. Many observer nations there as well.
ÖB: Svenskt stridsflyg på Island bidrar till Natos luftförsvar i Arktis www.forsvarsmakten.se/aktuellt/nyh...
🇨🇦 “Gripen met or exceeded all requirements,” Saab’s press officer Mattias Rådström told Afv (Feb 18, 2026).
#Canada
(Not actually new info but it seems worth repeating.)
AFV: www.affarsvarlden.se/artikel/saab...
Saab: www.saab.com/markets/cana...
#Iceland Air Policing #NATO #ArcticSentry
🇸🇪 JAS 39 #Gripen
Video: Flygvapnet
English www.government.se/press-releas...
Another "dozen" Tridon MK 2 and new RBS 70 units - Defmin
No one at the press conf asked about Gripen
It's a lot of items in theis package, too much to translate, it's answering to prioritized needs of Ukraine.
Can hopefully add some English link with details. Could also try Google lens on pics.
🇸🇪🇺🇦 #Ukraine Military Support Package 21
12.9B SEK towards Air Defence (mobile VSHORAD, multiple systems), long range strike, ammunition, drones, innovation, production.
70% new production delivery mainly within 12 months, up to 24 months.
Adding more info when available.
🇸🇪🇺🇦 Feb 19 - New Swedish support to #Ukraine
- Loan guarantee to World Bank.
- New #military aid. Press conference at 1 pm.
Svenske, tyske og danske kampfly træner i disse dage fælles operationer i luftrummet over Nordatlanten. De danske soldater er en del af Forsvarets øgede tilstedeværelse i Grønland og Nordatlanten, hvor de deltager sammen med soldater fra andre allierede lande.
#WeareNATO #ArcticSentry
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🇹🇭 School visit to Wing 7, #Thailand #Gripen
📷 RTAF
#Arctic Sentry #NATO
"Allies Denmark and Sweden perform integration flight"
Faroe Islands
Iceland
Photos: Dyrholm, Danish Defence & Swedish Armed Forces
#Gripen #F35
ac.nato.int/archive/2026...
3 x GBU-49 GPS/Laser guided bomb on #Gripen E test aircraft 39-8.
Centreline station 5 + 5L and 5R.
Video: Saab AB www.facebook.com/watch/?v=883...
🇹🇭🇮🇳 IAF - RTAF joint training.
Photos from the Royal Thai Air Force.
#India #Thailand #Gripen #SU30MKI
Well 30 seconds after my post.. confirmed by Defmin on X x.com/PlJonson/sta...
Swedish TV 4 reporting that six 🇸🇪 JAS 39 #Gripen currently deployed to 🇮🇸 Iceland Air Policing will also be tasked to take part in #NATO Arctic Sentry and patrol 🇬🇱 #Greenland.
Not yet confirmed.
www.tv4.se/artikel/5Uyw...
🇺🇦🇸🇪 #Ukraine - #Sweden DefMin's discussed #Gripen financing.
- Ukraine wanting to use some of the secured €90 Bn.
- Talks also with other countries on funding.
- Intensive dialogue.
Pic is Google Translation. Checked ok.
Source in Swedish: TV 4 / TT www.tv4.se/artikel/tt-2...
#NATO launches #Arctic Sentry.
❝Arctic Sentry underscores the Alliance’s commitment to safeguard its members and maintain stability in one of the world’s most strategically significant areas❞
- Supreme Allied Commander Europe
#Gripen shape.nato.int/news-release...
