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The Gripen and the Swedish Air Force are symbolic of the readiness Sweden has maintained despite the end of the Cold War. Joining Chris is Prof. Justin Bronk from RUSI, to explain how different the Swedish  operational approach is to NATO.

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Why Sweden is Combat-Ready And We Are Not

The Gripen and the Swedish Air Force are symbolic of the readiness Sweden has maintained despite the end of the Cold War. Joining Chris is Prof. Justin Bronk from RUSI, to explain how different the Swedish operational approach is to NATO. - Support - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/MilAvHistory Channel Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmpahmxWXajV0-tuMMzSzAg/join PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/MilAvHis - Crowdfunder - US filming trip https://www.ship-shape.org.uk/product/operation-krautkosh-2023/ - Check out my books - Ju 87 Stuka - http://stukabook.com STG-44 Assault Platoon - http://sturmzug.com German Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com/ Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de/ - Social Media - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MilAvHistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milaviationhistory/ - Sources - Prof. Justin Bronk https://rusi.org/people/bronk - Timecodes - 00:00 - Sweden's Air Force 00:21 - Basing 02:24 - Dispersal 03:40 - Training 06:15 - Swedish Air Force in a nutshell 06:50 - Finland: Similar to Sweden? 07:46 - Applying the Swedish Model to NATO 08:55 - Gripen specialization 09:36 - Limitations to adapting lessons from Sweden - Audio - Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

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Jens Backman

As a Swede this will be an interesting video 👍

Timothy Mulligan

Fascinating discussion of the alternative approaches of Swedish vs. standard NATO practices, thanks!

Frank C

Wikipedia reports 70 fighter aircraft. They should think about tripling that number of fighters. If they have not already, get the air to air refueling process going. Going about it smart, same airframe type.

MilAvHistory

Thanks, credit goes to Justin for being able to condense this complex in such a approachable manner!

MilAvHistory

As with most European Air forces, they probably would want to. But it will be a decade long project even if they decide on it today, esp. considering the force structure, pilot and maintenance training, logistic infrastructure, production, basing etc requiring massive investments