The carrier-capable Gripen suggestion rests on figures from a Saab proposal to the Indian Navy. Those figures are interpreted as permitting a short-take-off-and-landing version to operate from a Queen Elizabeth-class carrier in an air-defence configuration. The proposed aircraft was not selected by India, and no working example is identified. There was also no direct programme examining its use aboard the British carriers. Its feasibility here remains a theoretical interpretation of proposal figures rather than a demonstrated carrier capability.
Notable Point · 2:20:48-2:22:05
The Gripen carrier argument rests on an undeveloped proposal
A clarification separates the suggested Gripen carrier option from an aircraft or British integration programme that actually exists.