Carrier capable Grippen a possibility ?
Over on the Warships1 “Royal Navy” board is a rather weird thread discussing the possibility of using a carrier capable Grippen in place of the F-35 on the CVFs due to the on-going disagreements over the sharing of certain technologies (possibly now solved?).
Is this sane ?
The thread is here :
http://p216.ezboard.com/fwarships1discussionboardsfrm3.showMessage?topicID=5164.topi c
and the relevant bit is by RicardB who has been quoted on this thread :-
Carrier based Gripen
Gripen International is expected to unveil a carrier borne variant of the Gripen at the Farnborough International Airshow. India is one target market, Brazil presumably another ... and the possible relevance to the UK is obvious.
I've always been highly sceptical about a carrier variant of the Gripen. I suspect that their marketing department has figured that spending say £100,000 on some nice graphics, a glossy brochure and a model will generate many times that in free publicity and press interest.