@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-23 02:42:28
Ukraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…