Saab's Gripen is a great aircraft: very robust, agile, fast, versatile and inexpensive to operate. but one of its outstanding characteristics also is a downturner: it has explicitly no nuclear capabilities!
Saab argued that it opened the option of limited escalation. That the conflict could be carried out without someone on the other side fearing a nuclear attack.

Sadly, NATO members all tuned away from Saab.
#saabgripen #nucleardeterrance #limitedescalation

I happen to be back where I grew up today. The #EmergencyAlert stuff reminds me of our family's rather fatalistic four minute warning plan during the #ColdWar, which was to stand on the front lawn and watch the fireworks from the #Faslane #submarine base (home of the #UK #NuclearDeterrance fleet) which was just over the hill.
#NuclearWeapons