Sweden is modernizing Gripen fighters – UNIAN
In addition, the country's army signed a contract for the supply of RBS15 Mk3 anti-ship missiles.
Sweden's main Gripen fighters in the C/D version will undergo modernization in order to expand the range of weapons and update some systems, says Saab, which will carry out this work under a contract worth about $42 million.
Modern air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles are being integrated under the wing of the Swedish Gripen, but without specifying which products they are talking about.
However, the Gripen C/D already has a fairly wide range of weapons, both for hitting ground and air targets. The official brochure from Saab on the Gripen C/D arsenal shows a significant variety of weapons, which includes the longest-range Western air-to-air missile, the MDBA Meteor, which the Germans…