Comment Re: Probably more to it (Score 1) 439
"Downgrade" data-link isn't exactly right: It was a replacement of the Swedish with Link 16. Which doesn't have all the features the Swedish did 20 years ago but has the important feature that it's NATO compatible. The problem was (is?) that there's not space for both in a Gripen, so suddenly the C/D version wasn't compatible with most data-link resources in the defence force, but the older A/B version was.