Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Which multirole fighter jet is currently the best buy? (part 1 of 2)" video.

9:50 Gripen E is supposed to be in the "small" category from what I understand. If it was the cannards dragging it down one tier that could make sense, but the Eurofighter has cannards too... 10:40 Gripen doesn't have as much thrust to weigh as some planes, but it has a low drag design. 10:57 Sorry, but the turn rate of the Gripen is incredibly high... How does it end up essentially as "average" here?!? 11:49 Sorry, but are you mixing up the Gripen E with its older variants? I get that it's not necessarily at the top of any of these categories, but come on... 12:36 Okey, at least Gripens capabilities isn't entirely ignored on this one. But given that it's essentially designed around electronic warfare instead of stealth... 12:52 This one was probably Norways main issue with the Gripen... We have large maritime territories to cover, and the Gripen doesn't have as good a combat range as the F35... :-/ (Interesting that he lists a longer ferry range?) 13:53 Okay, so you claim that the F35 and Gripen is basically equivalent in practical range? Interesting. I don't know if that's accurate, but definitely interesting.
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Well, maybe I'm a little bit biased. But it feels like it was doing worse in areas where it has specialized in these rankings... And I'm not sure if that's really fair...
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@kermittoad I'm not Russian... There's plenty of them doing propaganda work too. But my point is rather that Americans constantly thinks their equipment is better then everyone elses, European, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian etc. And when tests show that this isn't true it's not learned till the US finds itself genuinely humiliated like with the Gotland class subs. And when other countries experience poor results with American equipment it's dismissed as poor usage of the equipment etc instead of acknowledging that it's not as great as Americans think. It's much the same as how Americans think that the US is the best place to live in when it most definitely is.
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@Cheka__ While it's true that Norway also make good military hardware in this case we're talking about Swedish military hardware, across the border from us (they make even more things then we do) Gripen is a Swedish fighter. We produce other things like anti-ship missiles and air-defense systems in Norway.
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You're optimistic. Americans always tends to overestimate their own equipments capabilities...
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@anchorread68 Jeah, I was also thinking about the JDAMs as that's fairly recent news. Running out of ammunition isn't necessarily a flaw, but it's one of many considerations you have to take when picking a weapon.
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