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@benghazi42163 жыл бұрын
at 11:00 Better research is needed. Hard to deny it happening when the Swedish pilots got awarded the US Air Medal for getting the lock on that SR-71. If both Sweden and the US says it happened, it happened.
@YaMomsOyster3 жыл бұрын
@@benghazi4216 I thought that was for escorting a SR71 when it’ was in trouble, I don’t think the Medal of Honor is awarded to countries for “getting a Lock” on enemies otherwise they would’ve given one to Russia for shooting down a U2
@jokervienna6433 Жыл бұрын
I was born in Sweden in the early 70´ies, and often saw Viggen and other Swedish jets when I grew up. Later I also saw them practising attack runs (with live ammunition). Viggen is (was) LOUD. It sounded like it tore the sky apart. I´ve heard some loud military jets later in life, but for me, nothing compares to Viggen. When they turned on the afterburner, there was this "splutter". Insane. Even as a kid I felt proud: "Those are OUR guys!"
@1joshjosh19 ай бұрын
Cool !!!
@xxx_puppetАй бұрын
I am English and have always been fascinated by your country. Viggen was one of the first things that fascinated me and to thia day there is no aircarft with the same deadky aesthetic beauty as Viggen. The sound was like nothing I have ever heard. You Swedes have a term that describes your national train of thought. Lagom.
@SirPrankalot3 жыл бұрын
Cheers from Sweden! I appreciate that you take the time to read out and translate the various abbreviations.
@thethirdman2253 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the JA-37's digital datalink, which was easily the most advanced datalink in the world at the time. It was arguably the most important aspect of the Jaktviggen.
@frankcessna7345 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for remembering the 4 ship data link…. Virtually no one remembers. Also the innovative UHF no-voice arrow indicators to vector the aircraft to intercept.
@carlosballesteros4670 Жыл бұрын
I can't stop watching this video over and over. Viggen is a wonderful machine, much more like a spaceship than an aircraft. Kudos for the excellent work you do.
@LL-vy5bj3 жыл бұрын
This is the most accurate video about viggen I have seen. You even get things right like the variant on the screen actually consistantly is the variant that is talked about. Good job!
@jemakrol3 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Really really good and well researched. Bonus points for quite good pronunciation of Swedish words and their accurate translations.
@annegrethenythe86263 жыл бұрын
Agree.
@jemakrol3 жыл бұрын
Great video and the second I watch in this channel. Being Swedish and somewhat of an avgeek with proud memories of this aircraft, I think this video is excellent. Well researched and narrated. Well done! Side note: I *do* believe that it is confirmed that the Viggen achieved radar lock on (-isch) on the SR-71. While it might be true, we'll def never know if it would have resulted in a hit. The conditions to lock on where quite extreme, assuming the Viggen climbed up and intercepting the SR-71 head to head, pretty much emptying its fuel tanks in the process. Timing was the key to do this since the window of opportunity at the extreme closing in speeds was very short. This assumed that the path of the SR-71 was known in order to execute. I've heard stories about how radar operators in Sweden noticed patterns in the "Baltic express" flights and started to punch some numbers just to toy with the idea. Eventually it was tried out... Then again... I won't claim any of this is true. Fun fact, speaking of the Viggen and the SR-71: What we do know for a fact though - which is quite interesting - is that the Viggen *saved* (most likely) an SR-71 from uncertain destiny. It suffered engine failure while passing the Baltic sea. Viggens intercepted the stricken SR-71 and escorted it to safety to the borders of a NATO base country. The Soviets had launch interceptors towards the SR-71 and it is thought that they were not going to be friendly if they had reached the aircraft first. The Viggens most likely deterred any engagements. This act of the Swedish airforce pilots was quite recently not only acknowledged by the US: the Swedish pilots were awarded medals for saving the SR-71 and it's crew in a little ceremony. Less fun fact, speaking of Viggen not being in combat: Viggens routinely flew intercept missions towards east over neutral waters of the Baltic sea. During the cold war Soviet often tested Swedish response times and efforts but also did sea and air excercises in the Baltics. At one of these excercises Swedish a sole recce Viggen was tasked with gathering intel on the naval vessels participating in the excercise. Of course, it could not do this without being interfered with by Soviet aircrafts protecting the fleet. The Soviet aircrafts were quite agressive making sure the Viggen pilot were as restricted as possible. Eventually the Swedish pilot had enough of the Soviet aircrafts and decided to try to shake them off. What happened after this I presume could be called a dog fight at low level. One unarmed recce Viggen against two heavily armed Su-15 Flagons. It ended in tragedy unfortainly - the Swedish pilot performed a half roll at low level leveling off at about 100 meters above sea level. To his surprise the Flagons had followed suit in this manouver. One of them had no chance to recover from it and the last thing the Swedish pilot noticed in his mirrors was how the Flagon agressively tried to pull up before hitting the water in a huge splash and explosion. Realizing the gravity of the situation the Swedish pilot slammed the throttle forward aiming for safety back home. The surviving Flagon pursued and actually locked his radar on the Viggen. However, the Flagon aborted the pursuit and return to the accident area. Swedish fighter Viggens scrambled and met up with the recce Viggen escorting him back to the base. Here's a link to a Swedish article (including photos from the actual flight) describing the incident, as told by the Swedish pilot himself: www.flygtorget.se/illustrationer/fil_20110110093819.pdf Sorry. Couldn't help myself. Find this quite interesting. My condolences to the friends and families to the pilot that perished in the line of duty. Tensions and stakes were high, even when real combat never occured.
@iain0753 жыл бұрын
Very welcome information sir. Thanks for sharing.
@jonasnitz76783 жыл бұрын
About lock on the SR-71: In 1990 I did my basic training at F-16 (Uppsala) and an officer told the story to us. We knew that the SR-71 was coming and the Viggen set off at full throttle and "met up" with the incoming SR-71 and was able to lock on the SR-71. That's what he told us anyway.
@jfrtbikgkdhjbeep99743 жыл бұрын
nice contribution, stay proud
@habahan42573 жыл бұрын
Thanks for re-voicing this video. Good information and footages
@sim.frischh97813 жыл бұрын
I´m from Austria, we had the Saab Tunnan and later the Draken serving us well for many years. Later we skipped the Viggen but the Gripen was in consideration before we ultimately choose the Teurofighter (teuer means expensive in german). Which we will probably replace with the Aermacchi M-346 Master, it´s way cheaper to maintain and operate. I still think the Gripen would have been the best choice for Austria, but my favorite in the selection was the Rafale, undoubtedly the most beautiful of all candidates.
@hansericsson70583 жыл бұрын
I am from Sweden and think Gripen is a good fighter but Rafale is my favorite to.
@sim.frischh97813 жыл бұрын
@@hansericsson7058 It´s the looks, the Gripen is great, but Rafale has the beauty no other can compare to. Also, it´s surprisingly small, i saw a size comparison sheet and that french machine is such a tiny package i couldn´t believe it.
@Doorsofprcptn3 жыл бұрын
Wait a minute, cheaper than the Gripen? Not based on the performance then, a P 51 Mustang is cheaper too.
@sim.frischh97813 жыл бұрын
@@Doorsofprcptn That´s the reasoning i was told to, i do not know which is actually cheaper, never saw any numbers on that.
@NothingIsKnown003 жыл бұрын
I also support choosing a fighter jet based on its design alone. :)
@jfrtbikgkdhjbeep99743 жыл бұрын
very well done ... nice aircraft, a nice tribute and specs analysis of the jet
@firefightergoggie3 жыл бұрын
I was very impressed with Viggens snappy maneuverability. It was always so deceptively agile.
@thetrolle3 жыл бұрын
You wouldnt happend to be one of the raf pilots who got to fly in the viggen during an exchange between the raf and the Swedish airforce?
@thethirdman2253 жыл бұрын
The pilot interview I heard said it bled a lot of energy very quickly, which was generally a Bad Thing.
@shaggings3 жыл бұрын
@@thethirdman225 Obviously it does, it's a delta wing. But it isn't necessarily a bad thing depending on what you're up against.
@acajutla3 жыл бұрын
I remember a short film clip shown on Swedish television, in the 70's I think. It was from an air show and the pilot in a Viggen made a roll at very low altitude. He came out of the roll with the nose pointing downwards, and without the big canard flaps and the efficient afterburner he would surely have crashed.
@firefightergoggie3 жыл бұрын
@@thetrolle - oh goodness no. I'm not a pilot. I'm just a keen military aviation enthusiast.
@aaronlopez35853 жыл бұрын
I love the 37, what is there not to like? It has it all looks, innovation, performance and ingenuity. 👍
@fooanonymous3 жыл бұрын
At 3:01 the aircraft livery incorporates the Ghost Squadron logo now taken over by Koenigsegg supercars. A beautiful way of preserving a proud tradition. This is an exceedingly well researched and presented video. Fantastic job, congratulations!
@eddiev15483 жыл бұрын
Work of art👍🏼
@Eo_Tunun3 жыл бұрын
Now I am a bit of a Viggen fan, collected allI could find on the plane. Sire, I congratulate to this well researched and presented video! This quality of information is very rare in this genre of videos on KZbin. There's a lot to add about the very analogue and non-sophisticated root of the Viggen design starting with a very basic flying mdoel in an office, its designers basically having thought up the layout by engineer's intuition and deep understanding of aerodynamic forces without the aid of tools like computers and stuff. A wonderful story in its own right! But I guess it would be a bit much to tell in 14 minutes!
@andreasleonardo67933 жыл бұрын
Excellent specific channel ( Weapons detective) of enjoying videos sending including this video about Saab 37 Viggen swedish thunderbolt aircrafts which started through talking about history progressing of aviation in Sweden after 2WW after that labelling all powerful & progressing characteristics of this famously name of saab 37 Viggen aircraft thanks for sharing 👍👍👍👍g🇸🇪🦅👍👍👍👍
@ericbrammer22452 жыл бұрын
Actually, the Blackbird was Intercepted right along Sweden's Coastline, in Sweden's airspace. The USAF tried to NOT overfly Swedish airbases, but, the Viggen used in this interception, was based on a Coastal Highway, and with it's 50K/Ft-per-Min. Climb, was 'alongside' the Blackbird in less than 3 minutes after Roll-Out!
@indiandefensearena9053 жыл бұрын
For your information: Indian prime minister in 1960s wanted to aquire this fighter and we're in advanced talks with Swedish but Americans embargo made India buy Anglo French jaguars later.
@BrianHurleyCanada3 жыл бұрын
Great videos! Thanks for taking the time to create and post them.
@chutorosan46553 жыл бұрын
I really like how it's look.. looks very agile, fast puncher & aggressive, especially with green camo 👌
@NothingIsKnown003 жыл бұрын
When they mentioned that the licensed engine prohibited Viggen from being exported, I suddenly remembered when they later designed Gripen. It was often mentioned that it would be export-able, and I never understood what the deal was. In light of the Viggen situation it all makes perfect sense.
@WhiteStar7623 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@ValiduzZ3 жыл бұрын
Great video and pronounciation of the classifications. Small note is for Sk. / Skola pronounciation. Needed a firmer A towards the end. "SkolAh"
@limpunsing2243 жыл бұрын
Hopefully, Saab builds marvelously engineered cars again Ace content
@acajutla3 жыл бұрын
Their successor Nevs have been trying for many years with no visible results.
@JH-lo9ut2 жыл бұрын
The automobile branch of Saab parted ways with the aeroplane and weapons branch a long, long time before they were shut down. If Saab Automobile were to be resurrected, they would have no ties left to the weapons manufacturer, especially if they were to be built in China.
@Woljap0073 жыл бұрын
Great video
@RaDeus873 жыл бұрын
I've heard that we received technical support from the US when we designed the Viggen, we gave them population medical data in return. Maybe that's why we never exported it. There is rumored to be a nuclear-strike version too, for our non-existent nukes that we definitely never had. The late 80s were a stressful time.
@archibaldhaddock74503 жыл бұрын
Viggen looks kind of large when flying right above you just a bit higher than the trees. Such things could happen in Sweden during early 90s if you had a pilot neighbor who used to be a fighter pilot and still had friends that were :D
@ガミラス-d1o5 ай бұрын
ビゲンとドラケンは今見てもすごく格好いい
@Slim_Ch4rles2 жыл бұрын
The front half reminds me of the F4 Phantom and looks just as menacing. I really admire Swedish aviation since they are only just now joining NATO, yet for decades was able to build up a modern aviation industry while maintaining comparable capabilities and tech to NATO
@Alchemicalromance933 жыл бұрын
I f****** LOVE Saabs. It was all my dad used to drive when I was a kid.! Too bad they don't make cars anymore but God Damn their aircraft are amazing!
@Harneskus3 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@paulandersson61203 жыл бұрын
Didn't mention the AJS-version....
@mikepette44223 жыл бұрын
Both the Drakken and Viggan are gorgeous planes and I kinda like the other Saab jets as well even the tubby little Tunnan It pays off in the long run to spend a little extra money on quality and self sufficiency when it comes to the military equipment needed to stay neutral. Admire Sweden very much for this and I wish my country weren't such a joke when it comes to military. We're 4 times bigger and probably richer overall yet we are stupid when it comes to military spending.
@goblincleaver_mshm.97513 жыл бұрын
Since there has been alot of new development on melgem class corvette (babur-class and Istanbul class,vls etc) will you revoice and update the melgem class video please
@thekingminn3 жыл бұрын
Please make a video on Makassar class LPD, Kilo Class and Ming Class.
@jyeager5013 жыл бұрын
I am Swedish and saw this beast at an military air-show, and it is loud!! This plane roars like it's shot out of hell. Fun fact: a Viggen pilot flew at low altitude and was unfortunate enough to pass over a pig farm. All the pigs died of fright and the farmer had to be compensated by the government.
@kutter_ttl67862 жыл бұрын
I certainly hopethe pilot, or his mates, took the opportunity to paint a pig kill mark on the jet.
@rexxsimba2 жыл бұрын
Imagine ..., an upgrade version of this plane ... cheaper and probably as good as the Gripen ...🤗👌
@astrazenica77833 жыл бұрын
Clever Swedes
@w0t3rdog2 жыл бұрын
A rarely talked about point about Viggen is its part in the Swedish L-programme. Sweden was experimenting with making their own nukes during the early to mid part of the cold war. Thanks to spies both in east and west, ample testing data and schematics were secured, and refinement of weapons grade plutonium was well underway. The issue was a delivery system. There were ambitions that JA32 lansen should be able to carry nuclear warheads, but it eventually proved impractical. Viggen was built with one of the criteria to be able to carry nukes, but the L programme was scrapped when public opinion shifted in the 70's, and military leaders observed the lack of nuclear use in Korea and Vietnam and deduced... that limited tactical use of nukes probably wasnt possible without strategic retaliation. Then it just became an expensive weapon that couldnt be used.
@erikhilsinger94213 жыл бұрын
When the narrator said "tunderbolt" I was all in.
@thefrecklepuny3 жыл бұрын
I did read that Clint Eastwood was impressed with the Viggen and fascinated with its unique looks, so much so that he wanted to use it to depict the MiG-31 'Firefox' in the movie of the same name. This did not work out, so a model and some ropey early 80s CGI had to suffice.
@dennisgraham308710 ай бұрын
From what I understand. The one main drawback to the Viggen was the compressor problems it suffered from routinely.
@agustinf13723 жыл бұрын
Ready to use it in War Thunder :3
@acelct4323 жыл бұрын
So many people are going to have it, considering there is going to be a premium J35 and the swedish tech tree is so easy to finish :/
@martincalero7390 Жыл бұрын
The Draken is my favorite.
@louwvandermerwe17811 ай бұрын
South Africa was also interested.
@melange783 жыл бұрын
You forgot to bring up one of the most important design choices. The reason it was so big and heavy was that it was designed to carry nuclear weapons.
@asiftalpur37583 жыл бұрын
KZbin algorithm recommendations when Viggen is announced in War Thunder:
@emregungor29862 жыл бұрын
@duanabsa99933 жыл бұрын
The maximum climb altitude was never mentioned. It would be a formidable weapon platform and a multi-roles aircraft should it be reproduced using current technology including aesa radar, latest engines, air-to-air refuelling and stealth.
@benghazi42163 жыл бұрын
40k feet/min if someone didn't know EDIT: My reading comprehension is so so.. The service ceiling is 59k feet. But you can push it higher, as the pilots many times did.
@thethirdman2253 жыл бұрын
The datalink was more important than any of those things and the one in the Jaktviggen was the most advanced in the world by some margin. A properly balanced airforce with good ground based sensors and jammers and an agile and well linked strike force can be extremely effective. That's what the Viggen was meant to do. When you have a lot of those factors working together, stealth is not really necessary and not worth the compromise or the vast cost.
@lothwinmore25363 жыл бұрын
Viggen locked up the SR-71 on regular basis as it entered the Baltic Sea. Out of around 100 attempts around 50 were evaluated as successful. It was a mean fighter capable of supersonic speed also at sea level.
@brothergrimaldus38363 жыл бұрын
Locking-on isn't the thing... sam sites could lock and track. Hitting it was the issue....
@lordsqueak3 жыл бұрын
@@brothergrimaldus3836 I think the point is, to lock it with something that could actually hit it. SAM and radar might be able to track it, but lack anything capable of hitting the SR-71. Aircraft would be able to have missiles near enough to reach it, but apparently it was flying too high, and too fast for them to get a lock. One of the quirks that let Viggen get a lock was, besides being a fast plane, was that it was able to fly high enough and fast enough for the radar to get a lock-on, and the SR-71's flight path was known, so that let the Viggen's be able to set an intercepting course, and for a short while, be able to get a lock-on. (One could argue that since the SR-71's turn radius was so large, that might be possible even if the flight path wasn't known, but that's a big maybe.) Since it was flying over swedish air space, Viggens would routinely intercept as they would any other planes. (well, as good as they could,,, it being the friggin' SR-71 and all ; ) ♥
@lothwinmore25363 жыл бұрын
@@brothergrimaldus3836 that’s the thing, it didn’t just lock on. It kept lock through the simulated missile run. As the window of for the missile were extremely narrow it was within its parameters to hit.
@thethirdman2253 жыл бұрын
The SR-71 was locked on to by MiG-31 Foxhounds too. In fact, it is believed to have been successfully intercepted about 85 times.
@lothwinmore25363 жыл бұрын
@@thethirdman225 as far as I know the Mig-31 where never near the SR-71, the MIG-25 however indicated, at least in the Baltic Sea that they had a fire solution.
@mehkam30003 жыл бұрын
the most beautiful fighter jet
@harri98852 жыл бұрын
Good thing Finns had the Saab Jas 35 Draken with Sidewinder 9 missiles. :)
@dtViggen3 жыл бұрын
The story of the Viggen is in essence the story of the small (but well developed) country defending themselves from the "big bear". It was always a matter of "you'll lose more than it's worth". To gain air-superiority over Sweden at the time you had to litterally shoot every plane out of the sky since the Viggen was able to operate from hundreds of road-bases. Combined with the performance of the Viggen these tactics might be one of the greatest of the cold-war. Actually the JA-37 is still classified since the JAS-39 Gripen system originates from there
@dtViggen3 жыл бұрын
... om a more personal note I remember the 80's/90's were Viggens often practiced dog-fights over our summerhouse. This was during the years when SAF-Pilots still were ordered to practice in war-style. For me as a child it meant hiding from the guys restoring the windows cracked by sonic-booms. For the mecanics it meant cleaning the wings from tree-tops...(true story) Imagine flying at mach 1-1'5 at 100ft...🙃
@tomflanker3 жыл бұрын
The most beautiful SAAB jet fighter
@awesomefacepalm3 жыл бұрын
The name of all the Saabs fighter jets can be translated to: Tunnan - The Barrel Lansen - The Lance Draken - The Dragon Viggen - The Thunderbolt Gripen - The Griffin
@robert-larix3 жыл бұрын
Viggen - Thunderbolt
@awesomefacepalm3 жыл бұрын
@@robert-larix ah yes, my bad.
@Kleeper Жыл бұрын
And now we all know that if you add (en) or (an) to the end of a word it means (The)
@awesomefacepalm Жыл бұрын
@@Kleeper that's right, and (et) for some words
@lurtzy_3 жыл бұрын
3:20 correction: supersonic not subsonic
@pladom38353 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure he meant subsonic
@lurtzy_3 жыл бұрын
@@pladom3835 the viggen can go mach 1.3 at tree level. What are you talking about nigga
@aclevername93813 жыл бұрын
@@lurtzy_ Did you even listen to the video? He said subsonic and he meant subsonic. Don't correct people when you don't know what you're talking about.
@Diabolus1978 Жыл бұрын
Viggen got blocked by usa on the international market. Many countries ws interested in it. Arguably the most modern/advanced combat aircraft in Europe at the time of introduction, featuring an airborne digital central computer with integrated circuits for its avionics, the world's first of its kind, automating and taking over tasks previously requiring a navigator/copilot, facilitating handling in tactical situations where, among other things, high speeds and short decision times determined whether attacks would be successful or not, a system not surpassed until the introduction of the Panavia Tornado into operational service in 1981
@beru583 жыл бұрын
I may be wrong but I think I read somewhere that Mitsubishi contemplated to licence build them for Japan. Or if it was Saab pushing. Is there anyone out there who knows if I am just dreaming things up?
@kutter_ttl67862 жыл бұрын
There doesn't seem to be much info out there but I in one of my aviation books ('The Great Warplanes of the 1990s) that Japan was one of the countries approached as part of the sales effort. Ultimately the F-15 was chosen.
@duanabsa99933 жыл бұрын
Service ceiling was 59,000 ft, or 18k meters.
@Alchemicalromance933 жыл бұрын
This guy has an amazing talent of making really interesting technology sound mundane and boring. He describes the features before explaining their use thus taking away any impact the cutting edge developments may have. He needs to change his writing style.
@Alchemicalromance933 жыл бұрын
He needs to teveal the subject without a lead-in. For instance: "implicit simplicity was built into a precision instrument made of cutting edge technology yet built simple enough that a little-trained conscript can prepare the plane and have it back in the air in minutes." He destroys any impact such amazing developments have by describing it in such mundane explanations. He also disperses the descriptions which also removes any impact the statements may have.
@andrewlambert72463 жыл бұрын
It should have been redesigned as a double engine variant with fly-by-wire instead of making gripen.
@michaelhammar27783 жыл бұрын
Frog!
@redsorgum3 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting if the mig 21 had the same canard/air intake/nose cone setup.
"not enough airplanes" worlds 3rd largest airforce. Id say they had enough. also locked on once is inaccurate. They would regularly "play" games with the SRs. They would launch and push the plane to max height just as the SRs passed and just target ping them to remind the muricans they were there.
@johanmetreus12683 жыл бұрын
4th, with UK, USA and USSR having larger. Only one actual weapon's lock, where a missile could have been fired with a chance to actually hit. There was this incident where an SR-71 was escorted by Viggen though, I'll dig the link up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2a9Y3WYYtyhotU
@Mornomgir3 жыл бұрын
@@johanmetreus1268 yeah. You should watch some interviews or read the old contact reports. That viggens went up and "pinged" blackbirds was seen as good fun and good training.
@johanmetreus12683 жыл бұрын
@@Mornomgir I'm not talking about getting a ping in, while it's a good exercise in flight control. The occasion I had in mind was a Viggen getting guided by ground control into more or less ballistic intercept, allowing it to achieve a full weapons lock that would have enabled a viable Fox-1 shot.
@RickDeckardMemories2 жыл бұрын
It's the first time that I hear "First Cold War". 🤔 Is this expression used where you live? Your channel is tagged "United Kingdom", but your accent is Polish, isn't it? Do they use this expression in Britain or in Poland? Or this is something you came up with on your own?
@oker593 жыл бұрын
all these jets are sexy - F-4, F-14, F-16, Saab Viggen, Mig 27/29's, SR-71, . . . but can you imagine what it's like to work on these things? Do you know what it's like to be a maintenance personel?
@oker593 жыл бұрын
Pilots and Military commanders and war gamers view military hardware in terms of performance . . . not the human cost of what it takes to maintain these things; how heavy these bombs are to load up underneath these wings, and to bang your hands against cold metal, and turn yourself into a human pretzel to get a screw blindly; to take these aircraft apart and put them back together every week to fight corrosion.
@oker593 жыл бұрын
Pilot's and War commanders just push bottons and go along for the ride; they don't get their hands dirty with hold down chains.
@matsv2013 жыл бұрын
11:40 Offically the SR71 was never locked on. Unofficially it was locked on once. In reality it was lock on multiple times, pretty much every time it passed over Sweden. The reason for this was not that the Viggen was faster or flow higher than the Russian counter part. While it did fly higher, it wasn´t faster. The real reason was the stealth capability of SR71 and the superior Swedish radar, allowing the viggen to wait for the SR71. Eventually the Russian trim there radar so much they could detect it in time to dispatch fighters from the Baltic states to intercept the SR71 over the Baltic. Swedish airforce already know that the SR71 was coming was waiting doing there usual run, instead intercepting the migs coming over to intercept the SR71. If i don´t miss remember so the SR71 was going on reduced speed due to a engine faliure. Anyway. The reason for intercepting the SR71 wasn´t as a hostile maneuver, but rather to Show USA sort of unofficially that Swedish air force was far more capable than it officially was. The reason for that was to get support from USA in case of WWIII. Sort of a deal that Sweden grind down the red army and air-force in exchange of supplies and support. In reality, the Swedish air force was probobly at this point so capability at the same time USSR airforces in reality was sort of a paper tiger, its really questionable that USSR even would manage to invade Scandinavia.
@JacobVahrSvenningsen3 жыл бұрын
Their submarines would get stuck in Skärgården and naval landing parties wouldn’t make it 10km in-land in the Swedish forests before they logistically ran out of ammo fighting kalle Anka conscripts and their tanks would be appropriated by the Finns on skis and turned around and used against themselves with Sisu Their ships wouldn’t make it out of the Danish straights - the airforces would be detected when they took off from signals bouncing off the ionosphere and shot down as soon as they entered Scandinavian air space and never make a single dumb bomb run on a high value target ...and their nukes would be turned back by Superman and land in their own backyard in Siberia
@MaxKrumholz3 жыл бұрын
you have to do about Kfir c7 he was in a fight not like this one....sr71 detect funny
@abbush29213 жыл бұрын
The First CoId War ?
@pumelo13 жыл бұрын
The speed of Viggen was 2478 kph
@Homoprimatesapiens3 жыл бұрын
Maybe the SAAB Viggen 37 need some redesigning. Its backside looks like if the tail section has fallen of when getting airborn.
@ghostviggen3 жыл бұрын
It had that design for its thrust reverser.
@gustengrodslukare46003 жыл бұрын
Viggen a Swedish beautiful thunderbolt .. I do not understand how you can think that something is beautiful that only has a purpose to "KILL"? Weapons are not beautiful but create death and destruction around them! Are something like this beautiful? NO its sick, but we live in a sick world. Peace and harmony is beautiful🙏
@RattusSwedicus3 жыл бұрын
. . Si vis pacem, para bellum . . Those who hammer their swords into plowshares will soon plow for those who do not . .That´s how the world works in reality , so forget about rainbow´s & unicorns . And yes , even if an aircraft is built for war it can still be beautiful in it´s design . . Be Well . . . :O) .
@andlir23 жыл бұрын
Naaa. Weapons is needed. They secure our freedom and our peace. Without them, we are smoked/raped/destroyed.
@gibbsm11 ай бұрын
You just gonna gloss over a fighter jet being able to do reverse thrust, and backup?!
@anthonybenash34573 жыл бұрын
As long as Sven is in the back, whacking that shit engine back to life after compressor stall, I'm all for it
@georgebarnes81633 жыл бұрын
The engine was designed and built by Volvo not Pratt and Whitney
@stevennagley89693 жыл бұрын
The JTD8 was the primary engine, later after the Rm8a was installed and gave the 37 the ability to use thrust reverser
@stevennagley89693 жыл бұрын
And no, Swedish didn’t design either engines, but they did engineer the engine to work with the airframe
@georgebarnes81633 жыл бұрын
@@stevennagley8969 The RM8 was built by Volvo to a Volvo design.
@Caddaric793 жыл бұрын
"Licensed-built version of the JT8D, heavily modified, produced by Svenska Flygmotor"
@stevennagley89693 жыл бұрын
George Barnes, the RM8 was licensed and built version of the Jt8d, the compressor unit and shrouded was built in conjunction to fulfill the airframe requirements at the time
@MajSolo2 жыл бұрын
if you seen modern fighters then draken was only ok. if you see draken at a modern airshow you can see that its meuvering is not that amazing. even if the draken tries to make a turn it is only shown by a lot of alpha but wont result in a efficient turn. viggen was better. swedish fighters have since been better then russian fighters. the russian fighters usually did not want to tangle with swedish fighters even if only for "fun" they just did not want to reveal how bad the russian fighters were. there were an incident where I think a MiG23 pilot wanted to have fun with a Viggen so they started a dogfight and the MiG 23 pilot got out of room and crashed into the sea. So it seems that sweden have one meneuver kill but it is just a rumour.
@Emjee516173 жыл бұрын
Dont you forget that Viggen 37 help a SR-71 BLACKBIRD Bye THE way is was a Swedish constroctor made that BUT sorry for My English .. BUT WE SWEDES HELPED BLACKBIRD (SWEDISH BIRD) IN 1987 OUR FLIGHT FLEET HELPED THE U.S to be shoot down by THE Sovjets Cold war and The Swedish pilots stug Up against 20mig planes 🇸🇪👍 we had 4 Jas Viggen but our planes they now was better russsians followed it Swedish planes because Blackbird had an Broken engine YEP 🇸🇪 HELPED and support U.S HOME SWE PILOTS GOT AN AWARD FOR THAT THE russsians wanna shot America down but we SWEDES 🇸🇪 va brevid dom hela tiden dom är så tacksamma piloterna att vi rädda deras liv And they got medals for that THE SWEDES pilots 👍 TACK SVEA RIKE it was top secret for 30 Years now you now it ! 🇸🇪🙏🇺🇲
@jessiehill83922 жыл бұрын
Beautiful plane and the name kinda rhymes with a flavor of chips, lays sold out and have no bite to their salt and vinegar chips, so so bland. 10 years ago the chips would have beat the plane in a fair fight, not so anymore. So sad. They used to make my teeth bleed and my eyelashes fall out, I miss that. Besides my complaining about a bag of chips I bought 45 minutes ago, the name of the plane rhymes allot with the chips and since I like flight and aerodynamics so much, screw lays.
@matssvensson38343 жыл бұрын
swe hade det tredje största flygvapnet
@dr.OgataSerizawa3 жыл бұрын
SR-71 was NEVER ‘locked on’.
@zulupox3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was locked on by Swedish Viggen several times. Swedish pilots even trained "simulated" attacks meeting the SR71 head on, since no airplane could intercept a SR71 from behind... not even missiles. There are lots of youtube videos about it from both sides, here is one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKXQdIipgNCkhKM
@dr.OgataSerizawa3 жыл бұрын
@@zulupox So, the guy “said” he locked on. That doesn’t prove a thing!!
@zulupox3 жыл бұрын
@@dr.OgataSerizawa Not sure why you want to distrust this information? These are now public records of the Swedish state, since it has been de-classified. It didn't just happen once with one pilot but on a multitude of occasions with different pilots and planes.
@montanabigbeer6503 жыл бұрын
is it just me or does this guy sound really weired?
@evanf111og3 жыл бұрын
dont mean to ruin every sweeds day but the vig is just a F-111 but worse in every way, less range, worse radar, less weapons, worse weapons, slower. only way its better is matanance
@jonadolfsson77773 жыл бұрын
Yeah the famous fighter/interceptor F111 :-). By the time the ground crew got that thing moving the Viggen would already be at 10 miles alt. But yes, the Aardwark was fast at some altitudes.
@erictelander68513 жыл бұрын
Can't compare two TOTALLY different A/C, designed for different tasks/missions and then go on to say one is worse. I mean, two engines, two crew members and swing-wing versus single engine, canard-equipped, single crew. Hello? With the F111, the US aimed for a the most advanced low-level-attack capable A/C possible and achieved maybe 80% of their goals.
@evanf111og3 жыл бұрын
@@erictelander6851 well the F-111 was a ground pounder and so was the vig so i think they can be compared
@erictelander68513 жыл бұрын
@@evanf111og Yes, the F111 was a ground attack aircraft but the Viggen was a multi-purpose design. With one engine etc. etc. Compare the F111 with the Tornado or Sukhoi SU24, the Viggen with the F16, Mig 23 or a Dassault.
@Karl-Benny3 жыл бұрын
The F111 great Jet But the Viggen was designed to stay close to the Action take of and land on roads reload and fuel out of a truck that is what the f-111 could not do and the Viggen had advanced radar and not reliant on USA