Representatives of countries that fly the Gripen fighter hold a bi-annual conference in one of the member countries to share their experiences of operational use of the supersonic fighter. These talks revolve around operational, maintenance, logistics, engineering and safety matters.

Attendees at this year’s week-long event include South Africa as host, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden and Thailand. The SAAF has previously hosted the GuG before, in December 2011, but have on occasion had to decline attending events hosted overseas due to, presumably, financial reasons.

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