Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "" video.

It's the A-10 all over again.
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Costs the same as other 4th gen. There's no actual "bang for the buck" advantage. There's a reason Saab struggles to make sales.
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@pogo1140 You can't keep Gripens operating that way either. 1 mechanic and 5 conscripts is the basic turn around. When that airplane comes down after seveal hours of sorties and the maintenance has to start... it's not going to be the conscripts working on it.
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The GlobalEye was Saab's desperate measure to throw in value in the deal.
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The F-5 was an extremely weak fighter that the US exported to nations they didn't want to send high tech to.
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@td6460 They knew they couldn't meet the Finnish requirements for cost and performance and tried to throw an extra goodie to make their offer seem more valuable. Finland was Saab's last chance to get the big break so they threw everything at the wall to see if it stuck.
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@arnijulian6241 But you don't get more. You're paying pretty much the same. Anything is a threat to 5th gen craft. The problem is - will you have a remaining air force after you pose that threat?
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@hidden_matrixgaming That's a cope. Prove that conspiracy theory.
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@dallesamllhals9161 the flyaway cost for a Gripen E is 85 million while the F-35A is 79 million. Obviously there's a lot of extras when acquiring a F-35 but both aircraft will cost you over 100 million.
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@hidden_matrixgaming Look at all the deals? What about them? I'll see? No. Burden of proof is on you.
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@hidden_matrixgaming Representatives from Saab will always come up with excuses to make themselves look better. A Lockheed representative will always say the F-35 is better. You'll call that bias in that case, but not in Saab's case.
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@kronop8884 There's several levels of maintenance. There's parts you can replace by unscrewing a few bolts and plugging the connectors. But there's also stuff like disassembling a turbofan engine to get to a compressor stage and replace the blades. And what happens to the part you unplugged? Someone has to look over it an fix it so it can be used again when another one of those goes bad or reaches their limit of hours of operation. Yeah an engine swap might be easy. But you have to have engines available for swaps. And that means there's a depot where you have highly skilled technicians looking over your swapped engines to bring them back to operational status. Basically people take the Gripen land-rearm-refuel-and-turn-around routine and compare it to a flight line F-16 being babied by a crew because it's being operated in a theater where it's not under attack.
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