Last autumn, Ukraine's defence Minister Olexiy Reznikov, in a message on possible future arms supplies to his country, besides referred to the anticipation of handing over Western warplanes to his country. Among the “sourceable” designs, he listed not only the American F-15C and F-16, but besides the Swedish JAS-39 Gripen multirole aircraft. These machines, for many reasons, seem to be a structure straight created taking into account the current Ukrainian needs.