Ukraine is getting ready for Nato witch one would be the best.

the rafale is in the same boat as the eurofighter so it would be the best i think although the f/a-18 would probably come with more logistics

What about Saab,it is much more cheaper.Has helment sight comparable to mig's.

I guess the best pick would be Rafael it is much more capable aircraft and has a better arsenal than any other.

The f-18 is a good multi purpose aircraft. It can carry anything in the US Navy arsenal and none of it's fighter abilities are comprimised.

yeh but the gripen can outmanuevre any variant of the f/a-18 hornet including the super hornets

Just depends on what ur looking for. For straight multi purpose, i'll take the hornet but i'll take the gripen for air superiority.

i'll take the rafale for airsuperiority because the gripen doesnt have the legs to stay on station for long enough

that's a toughy, F-18 is a good plane (E/A-18 even better in my view), and the rafale is better than the gripen, but depends who's flying.

Anyway, in a 1v1 wvr the gripen proved equal to the f18's of finland(gripenpilots claimed they were slightly superior at most altitudes but they would say that, woudnt they? anyway, depends on rules of the excersises), bwr the gripen proved devastatingly superior. I expect the rafaele will repeat that and then some. Does this mean that the raf is no1, gripen no2 and f18 no3? Hell no! They have different roles and functions and pricetags and 1v1 should result in a courtmartial for the criminally incompetent pilot putting himself in such a position anyway.

The gripen was built to a very specific design specification of being small, defensive fighter that conformed to the swedish defencedoctrine(stol, ease of maintenence, ruggedness etc) mainly anti airsuperiority, some antiground, more antishipping. As such its a very neat design with its own tactical capabilities and great lifecycle cost and outstanding airhours per maintenencehour. Somewhat short legs and limited payload make it a poor powerprojection aircraft however. SAAF is what I understand planning on always setting up forward bases when they employ it on expeditions. Maybe they can 'hack' good powerprojection out of the gripen with its stol and ruggedness(africa is big so slightly longer legs wouldnt solve the problem). Still wont be much of a mudmover.

The rafaele seems designed to be more of a generalised kickass fighter that is meant to be somewhat cheaper than the typhoon etc. Wether this is successfull or not is not for me to say. Its still kindof new, aint it?

F18, dont know too much about it but seems to be less comparable than the other two with twin engines and vastly greater size. I just generally find it hard to believe the US would build a sucky aircraft and keep investing in it.