Fighter Jet: War Machine Heavy Maintenance | Mega Pit Stops | Episode 3 | Free Documentary

Mega Pit Stops - Episode 3: Fighter Jet - Putting a war machine to the acid test.
It is one of the most popular and best fighter jets in the world: JAS 39. The so called “Gripen” is a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. At the Czech Air Force Base in Caslav, the jet gets the biggest overhaul of its lifetime!
In only 40 days, the Gripen is stripped down to its bone, everything from the ejection seat to the engine is removed and checked. The 14 Gripen of the airbase are part of the “Quick Reaction Alert” Force of the NATO. If they are not in the air, the airspace is not protected. That puts a lot of time pressure and liability to the 11 mechanics, who are responsible for the aircraft.
The machinists put the war machine to the acid test. They check the hydraulic system, all moving parts and the oil - the aircraft`s blood. It is one of the most important things of the Gripen: without it, the pilot is not able to control the jet. The ejection seat - the pilot`s life insurance. The access panel is examined painstakingly - the skin. The biggest part is the engine check: the turbine is the heart of the Gripen. In the end, the weapon system - the fist - will be disassembled, so the gun is working when it is needed in action.
Every fault they will find means a delay to the schedule. So the team has to work really concentrated and, above all properly, that the Gripen will be able to start in time.
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I know one of the guys personally. He says the most stressfull part is that a pilot's life depends on your precise work. It's no fun. I have great respect for them.

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Are the translations in this video correct ?

[@francescogendrinable]

Is there a possibility to ask him which school he attended to do this work? Thank you @Dagmar Kalina

[@dagmarkalinova]

@@francescogendrinable Hi, he attended The Armed Forces Technical School, Halmstad, Sweden. I don't know how it works elsewhere, but in Czech Republic you have to join the military to be able to get this type of training.

[@evox786]

Multi-million dollar machines, state-of-the-art equipment, massive facilities, and a piece of cardboard with holes punched in it to make sure everything goes back together correctly.

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🤣🤣🤣 exactly

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We do the same with $300k racing cars too!

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...aka field upgrades 😁

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If it ain't broke don't fix it. Why use a multi-thousand dollar tool when a free piece of cardboard works.

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19:30 - they really have fallout art for their caution posters. I love this so much.

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The fallout posters were awesome!

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Who ? What ? 😮

[@xDrShadowx]

"sadly I wasn't able to become a pilot myself as my hearing and sight weren't good enough that's why I became a mechanic" I remember that day I visited some army officiers at a orientation meeting when I was 18. I explained to them that I'm deaf, I can talk and read on lips. And they told me I can't work in the army at all even as a mechanic. I dreamed to be a fighter pilot. I'm glad I can watch these guys accomplishing their dreams at least.

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What if you could get your hearing back ? I can help you with that

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Excellent documentary. Cudos to the hard working team and just wonderful to see the Swedish made equipment put into good use and in good hands!

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Pilots Can Trust there Machine just because of these amazing technicians. Massive Respect to you Guys :)

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That was an exceptional engineering, the mechanic has carefully check everything correctly, I would say this is excellent.

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These guys are brilliant! It's so enjoyable to see people who love their jobs so much.

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I've talked to some pilots and they say the real heroes are the mechanics. Hats off to them.

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Like with many things it’s a team effort which is the coolest thing ever.

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Nice to see professionals at work. The Czech facility looks really clean and neat

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that Czech facility is so neat....so organized.

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Excellent insight into the professional back-up service package that provides on-going aircraft operational readiness. The cleanliness and space of the working environment is impressive, so to the methodical precision applied by all the engineers. Superb attention to detail. Thank you for this video, it is very interesting indeed.

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Thank you for taking the time to stop by and let us know! Much appreciated. 🥰

[@GSteel-rh9iu]

Excellent documentary; congrats to the Czech team doing that great work. Hats off to SAAB and the Swedes for designing this beautiful machine. Unfortunately because of such low numbers produced its very expensive to acquire though operating costs are the best in the world!

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Those Czechs are good eggs. They don't take short cuts! A weapons platform like this, which is a solid weapons system...is only good as the pilot at the controls. But... the pilot is only as good as the flight crew keeping these incredibly complicated and high tech machines operating at the its absolute highest possibility capabilities. Every time those pilots positions and holds in the runway..their lives are literally in the hands of that crew and their efforts for nearly two months. It really is amazing how so many people can come together working on machines with thousands of parts where...if just one tiny part fails... a pilot and $35 million buck become an extremely expensive lawn dart! A dart that explodes in a fireball! Good on ya, Czech Republic. Glad you're on our side!

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Really?..

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[@zlajo1964]

Beautifully organized "pit stop". Bravo Czech !!!! I hope we will be at least half of you !!!! If we choose Grippen ...

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19:29 Vault-Tec safety advice is priceless 👍

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we all are nerds, after all. and we love it

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Excellent documentary. Cudos to the hard working team and just wonderful to see the Swedish made equipment put into good use and in good hands!

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I just love these type of documentaries as i love fighter jets! They are lucky to have JAS gripens as fighter jets!

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Fallout workplace safety stickers? I like these guys.

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Feel bad for the mechanic that he can't fly, but being able to fix them is pretty cool. I too know how it feels not to be able to do what you want because of your bodies defects

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Xlaxsauce I presume you are not engineer or mechanic? For us it is not matter of flying but satisfaction of play with this technology and satisfaction that each plane we repair land safe.

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@@abazdarhon He literally said he couldn't become one, so yeah.

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Don’t kid yourself he makes more than the pilots

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Love how the winches for lowering the engine are the field winches for loading weapons. Good design.

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Nice to see these highly skilled guys at work.

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Amazing world of precise and massive repairing ... super informative!!

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Hard work, dedication and involvement

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Awesome documentary giving insights. Got to learn a lot . Thank u so much and looking forward for many more . Cheers!!!

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I'm Southern bred / Southern bound here in Georgia USA, but being of Czech-German descent, this video made me kinda proud in a way.

[@sollly32]

Everybody who ever worked on a fighter jet knows that this is not an easy job! I had my fair share on F-16 as a weapon technician.

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You're absolutely right! Sadly, some who commented here just had no idea nor brains to appreciate such zero-tolerance work.

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im from bulgarian air force, and soon will be working on f 16 :)

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Great job of technicians behind powerfull jet machine Gripen

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Tomas is so passionate about his hobby and job - Happy to see it.

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Thanks from BraziL!!!

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Amazing 👍🤙🤩🇸🇪 As im watching this, Im passing on the highway E4 outside Linköping home of SAAB Gripen 💪

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Great fighter jet, the Czech Air Force did a good job buying these.

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Very informative, great work.

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Good to have the Czechs on our side these days.

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The czechs are nothing without the Slovaks, they're the ones who trained and funded them.

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Wow amazing to watch these guys...incredible task..

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i wish had a mechanic like them for my car :D

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im planning to take BSAMT for college and i always find fighter jets nice and cool haha they kinda look challenging to maintain btw great documentary, keep this up

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This is a super interesting documentary ! Really nice for Volvo Cars R & D engineer, in service for 36 years, now retired since one week :) ! Regs from Gripenland. Kent/Sweden

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They are so good at it. Love it. I hope my country Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 owns at least 1 jet fighter in the future.

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Patrick, some time maybe Papua N,G. will have hundreds from his little Fighter. To fight against the enemy, maybe australia? Good Hoope.....

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thank you.

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I'm amazed how clean the engine is going back in ,engines usually have alot more auxiliaries strapped to them ,they must be already in the fuselage waiting to be connected, for quick exchanges 😮

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22.47 he is so polite,it’s the way he says to the TV flip off and don’t distract me!

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Well I love to hear the story that they want to share it's a serious job that only highly motivated people who have high skills and intelligence and I respect them for being able to get the job done and the trust they have for each other is staggering cause they have honor and that's why they are so successful in what they do they are brother in arms

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13:05 this is a view you don't usually see in aviation

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I like this job

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Nice work.

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50 days of work for numerous mechanics and the jet is now ready for another 200 hours of flying! Egads! That’s a harsh ratio of ground hours to flight hours!

[@Jesusswe91]

The gripen is one of the least demanding of service intervalls of all the fighters in the world. So just imagine how often a F-35 have to do there service

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@@Jesusswe91 Yeah that airplane is a big waste of tax money if something is!

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Amazing 😍👍👍

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Nice to see they take good care of our Gripens they are leasing.. ;)

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Hard Working Team

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Aside from the dramatization added by the documentary people (the actual people seemed way more chill), I learned quite a bit.

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