SIGUEN LAS ENTREGAS DE GRIPEN A SUDÁFRICA/ The SAAF received a additional four new Gripen C fighter aircraft

Los nuevos Gripen llegaron a bordo del buque Achtergracht al puerto de Bay Harbour, desde Norrkoping, Suecia.
La Fuerza Aérea Sudafricana ya dispone de los nueve biplazas Gripen y los cuatro monoplazas recibidos se unirán a los dos recibidos en febrero. Serán utilizados para vigilancia del espacio aéreo durante la Copa Mundial de Fútbol 2010.
El peedido de Sudáfrica es por nueve monoplazas Gripen D y 17. El primero fue entregado en Abril de 200, y el total equipará el 2 Squadron en la base de AFB Makhado.
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Gripen arrived on board the cargo vessel Achtergracht. The four aircraft were offloaded in Table Bay Harbour. They had been loaded onboard the vessel at the port of Norrkoping in Sweden.
The single seat aircraft, serials 3912 to 3915, were then towed the 8km from the harbour to AFB Ysterplaat in two convoys of two aircraft each.
With all nine dual-seat Gripen D aircraft already delivered, these four aircraft will join the first two Gripen Cs that arrived on 11 February this year. The Gripen will play a key part in the air force's plans to safeguard the airspace above the stadiums during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
The original order was for nine Gripen D dual-seat and 19 Gripen C single-seat aircraft. However, the order was revised in 2005 to nine dual-seat and seventeen single-seat aircraft. The first instrumented Gripen D was delivered in April 2008 and is based at the SAAF's Test flight and Development Centre near Bredasdorp in the southern Cape. The balance of the aircraft is assigned to 2 Squadron at AFB Makhado in the Limpopo province.
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