JAS-39 Gripen

Försvarsminister Peter Hultqvist genomförde den 17 februari ett videomöte med den ukrainske försvarsministern Andrij Taran.

Media Brief: Gripen & GlobalEye for Finland

Försvarsminister Peter Hultqvist genomförde den 17 februari ett videomöte med den ukrainske försvarsministern Andrij Taran.

Media Brief: Gripen & GlobalEye for Finland

he U.S. Air Force is looking at an all-new fighter jet design to replace its F-16s, which currently provide the backbone of the tactical fleet. Air Force Chief of Staff General Charles Q. Brown Jr. is launching a months-long study into the service’s future force mix, which could include a “clean-sheet design” to replace the F-16 and which could potentially threaten long-held plans to buy 1,763 copies of the F-35A, originally intended as the F-16’s successor.
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He pointed to the Viper’s inability to receive software updates at the speed that’s desired and its lack of open-architecture software protocols that would allow it to be rapidly reconfigured.

Brown said he would want the new aircraft to feature “open-mission systems” — something that the Air Force has recently been testing in live flying scenarios involving manned aircraft. This kind of open architecture design would allow the new fighter to receive software updates in rapid succession, potentially even during a mission.
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Instead, what the Air Force will consider is the manufacture of “something new and different, that’s not the F-16 — that has some of those capabilities but gets there faster and uses some of our digital approach,”
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This “digital approach” could well be fundamental to the whole idea of a new tactical fighter for the Air Force and echoes the “Digital Century Series” that was another Roper brainchild.
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A similar type of digital engineering — the so-called eSeries concept — has also become a hallmark of the Air Force’s new T-7A Red Hawk trainer,

Gripen: Software Design Built for Future
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Gripen's upgradability was something that was taken into account at the conception stage. It required its avionics architecture to be open where the tactical management part becomes upgradable (like an iPhone). This means that Gripen's radars, sensors, weapons etc. can be upgraded frequently throughout their lifecycle without affecting other parts of the aircraft.