Stefan Degraef and Edwin Borremans visit the Swedish vAir Force’s Gripen Operational Test and Evaluation Unit, where a small but important community is responsible for trials of all Gripen-related hardware and software destined for the front line.
Linköping-Malmen air base on September 14 last. A single JAS 39C Gripen, callsign ‘Hammer 01’, blasts off from runway 19 before heading west…