[Ottawa – December 17, 2025] As the debate over Canada’s next-generation fighter jet continues, Canadians are leaning decisively away from an all-F-35 future.
Interesting. I wonder why they’re considering the Gripen instead of the Eurofighter Typhoon (German/British/Italian/Spanish) or Dassault Rafale (French). To be honest I really don’t know what the differences would be.
The interesting feature of the gripen is it’s ability to land on rural roads. Sweden has many of those and Canada also. Another interesting feature is it’s maintainability, just 6 man crew, fuel and ammo on a road between nowhere is enough for the gripen.
Interesting. I wonder why they’re considering the Gripen instead of the Eurofighter Typhoon (German/British/Italian/Spanish) or Dassault Rafale (French). To be honest I really don’t know what the differences would be.
The interesting feature of the gripen is it’s ability to land on rural roads. Sweden has many of those and Canada also. Another interesting feature is it’s maintainability, just 6 man crew, fuel and ammo on a road between nowhere is enough for the gripen.
I see, thanks for the info. Anyway it’s good to see Canada wanting to buy defence equipment from Europe instead of the now unreliable US.