Yeah! I did my military service as a Viggen mechanic in the 90:s, and during night missions we got to see Viggen starting on full afterburners in the middle of the night in the darkest of winter. The flame and the skull-shaking sound!!! Absolutely EPIC!
saw this plane @ luchtmachtdagen volkel and then "boom" startup of afterburner truly shocked me when he took off, what a difference compared to the F16's holland has lol
mäktigt gjorde lumpen på a4 på 80 talet. vi va ute på frösön å vår galna löjtis tyckte vi skulle gräva ståvärn i stenrös mitt i natten !!!!! då lyfte en rote från F 4 å dra åt fan va fränt me EBK svets låga och dånet mitt i natten muahaha ståpäls bara ja tänker på den upplevelsen ...... vi va rätt nära fältet !!!!! ha de
I really miss Viggen, growing up in the 80-90s right under their exercise airspace, the roar from it was something special, not only the sound but you could truly feel the power, your body shaked, the house shaked, the earh shaked, it was amazing. JAS 39 Gripen flies overhead sever times per week & it doesn't sound bad but it's more of an earpiercing sound, sometimes painful to listen to it's high pitch whine, nothing matches the low frequency high energy thunder of Viggen
Det var ren och skär kraft i den motorn. På den tiden skulle vi ju kunna jaga ikapp utländska företag som var på väg mot Sveriges gräns. Det skulle gå undan ju och då behövdes det rejält med kraft 😉
I saw the Viggen along with a Vulcan at Farnborough Air Show in the 80s and I still remember the sound of them both flying past, so close to the ground that it shook my my bones andknocked the breath out of me! They were both stunning to see fly
This must be the coolest looking fighter of all time. That thing is just insane. I would run the other way just by seeing it in the sky. And that noise... geez. The only thing that comes close is an old P52 Mustang on full throttle. Another noise but still insane.
Well i'm born and raised just outside F7 wing of Såtenäs (My father did 42 year of service in SAF), there were limitasions to peacetime landing and take off noice, but when it came to the incident awarness flights (mostly Soviet, but also western), a rote of Viggens started with full thottle afterburners and rattle our china off the shelves! During the eighties this were quite common!
@@lilljacob It's not the leaders who are weak, it's the polarisation that divides us that makes us weak. The sad thing is that some political fractions profitises on thisin various media and makes us look weaker than we are. Shame on them.
i still remember one of these flying over me at treetop level when I was doing my military service. Scared the living crap out of me as it passed.. :) Was a photo recon one taking pictures of us for training....Nobody had any idea it was around until it had already passed...
Talked to a former Viggen pilot in the spring of -18 and he claimed that, when Viggen was new, they tried to land it hard but the ground effect was so strong that they hardly exceeded 17 ft/s. That´s 11 mph (18 km/h) vertical speed. Would probably work on an aircraft carrier.
One of the most iconic Coldwar jets from its time era... with still insane performance.... Mach 1.23 at sea level 200feet or brusching the tree tops... how many fighter jets have you seen land in 500meters and reverse on the runway ? land and refuel on ordinary country roads under 10minutes from 1970´s... Last ones where built in 1992... its sad that incompetent politicians ended its carer thinking it was a outdated fighter unaware it was still one of the best Low level interceptors in the world for flying super fast hitting sea targets witch still is the number one threat in Balticum it was a real waste of machinery and taxpayers money it would hade its place still...
on a the annual air show here i think it was in 2003 after the operation "iraqi freedom" som U.S F15 visited the airshow on their way to Norway showing the Strike Eagles i talked some with the pilots during the viggen display and one of the F15 pilots was stunned with the viggen full 3stage burn sound shouting my god it sounds like the Space shuttle... then i knew it was something really extraordinary
hahahahaha!! the car alarms going off in the background!!!!!! THIS IS A BRUTAL BIG BOY PLANE !!!!! Made the russkis fly into the sea - trying to keep up with it....
1975 I was 6 years old and heard a sonic boom from a Viggen. Clear skies, no wind... just an extremely loud bang from nowhere. I never saw the plane :)
My second all time favorite modern jet fighter. Love the Delta wings and cammo ones are cool looking. Have liked this since of was 7 and got one that was a Dynaflite, and still have it to this day all bet it's missing all but one roundal and 1 of its four bombs. Fun fact this is the only known fighter to get a Radar Lock on the Sr-71 Blackbird. The Viggin drivers would track SR's as the would follow the same route, the and then the Viggin drivers would track and Lock on to the Sr-71 despite extensive jamming on the SR's account. Crazy as the Mig-25 Foxbat wasn't know to have ever got a Radar Lock acourding to Soviet defector Lt. Victor Belenko a Foxbat driver himself. Gotta love Swedish radar technology.
@@andersmalmgren6528 We know by now, that this was because the SR-71 had to slow down a bit in order to pass Sweden on neutral waters in the narrow channel between Öland and Gotland. It is still a very impressive manoever, since it it is such a narrow time span. About 50 times it was done, according to Swedish fighter pilots in interviews.
@@crunks2955 It was designed to be an interceptor, wheras the AJ37 was designed from the ground up as a interdiction strike aircraft. Only later on did they create the fighter variant in the JA37, there were engine optimization differences, avionics and payload differences.
Elestro Air-soft oh no, all Viggen with the letter J (Jakt = interception) included in their version name were fully designed and used as interceptors. There was a slow transition from using the Draken to the Viggen stretching from 1972 (37 Viggen introduced in the Swedish Air Force) untill the mid 80's for the interceptor role but that is foremost due to the restricted numbers of the Viggen in the early 70's and ended with the J35 being technologically obsolete in the 80's. The Viggens with the letter J as the first letter in the name (such as JA 37 Viggen) was primarily designed for interception. I fully agree with @Jebediah Kerman on his comment above and I also have to say that When the JA37 entered service in 1980 it almost completely took over the role as the major interceptor. Of course the J35 had some remarcable features when it comes to interception and scrambling, one of the most impressive feature was the 1 minute capability to get airbourne (parked with engine shut off, fully loaded and prepared for interception, standing 'stand by' at the end of the runway (or at special locations very near the runway)). The Viggen takes a slightly longer time to get airbourne from a 'stand by' position, even thogh we are talking about some 10's of seconds in this matter, every second counts when it comes to interception.
Bei der Airpower 2016 in Zeltweg ging mir das Herz auf, Man sah sozusagen alles was früher bei der Schwedischen Luftwaffe im Einsatz war. Somit auch in Österreich, Dazu zählt die Viggen aber nicht, Aber die Österreicher und wir Luftfahrtenthusiasten durften uns mal wieder nach 11 Jahren über ein Display einer Restaurierten Saab Draken freuen. Es war zwar ein Doppelsitzer aber immerhin, Die Viggen war aber auch nicht schlecht. Tolles Display wie zu früheren Zeiten als sie noch Aktiv im Einsatz der Schwedischen Luftwaffe war. Ganz lieben Gruß nochmal!
Schweden tat alles, um eine Invasion des Landes viel teurer zu machen als das, was sie durch die Invasion verdient hatten. Schweden wollte ein neutrales Pyrrhus-Land sein. Ich denke, viele andere kleine Länder wissen, worum es bei diesem Grundprinzip geht.
This fighter jet can literality start and land on a highway. It doesn't even take that long of stretch to do it either. Sweden used to have hundredths of those roads as air strips concealed for soviet. The reason was secure the ability to always react to threat and not risking to put all eggs in one basket like an conventional airbase. Today most of those hidden starting stretches has been dismantled. In present time, since the NATO/Russian arms race and rising tensions occur, we will probably start using that strategy again. We do need a lot more JAS 39 Gripen in service and battle ready. Almost 30 years of disarmament of our national defense has left us open and vulnerable if such conflict would rise. Lets hope not.
It's not that they are concealed. It's difficult to hide a 1km straight road. The idea was that there were so many so the enemy wouldn't know which one they used and if compromised, they could switch to another one within hours. However, if they were still in action they would use the normal airbases and they would only relocate if necessary.
@@azynkron no, they would switch around to new bases between each sortie, a Swedish combat pilot during the cold war was practically never assigned a specific return base once basic flight training was done, the mission briefings only contained a return vector, the flghter coordinator would then assign returning pairs to activated bases as they come back along that vector for refuelling and rearming.
We still have a fair number of them. It's just that they are not used. (in that way) I checked and there is around 270 of resting places being maintained. (rastplatser) You might notice something about them, if you look at a map. They are all in connection to long straight bits of the road.
Uniquely designed and still an elegant jet fighter. Even more amazing that it's still flying today. Just wondering why this jet isn't as agile as it was in the past.
The aircraft is basicly built around the Pratt&Whitney JT8 Basic engine! Volvo Aero adapted it then for single engine installaton with afterburner. The JT8D engine was a proven and dependable engine back then on DC9 and B737 aircrafts. So to use this engine as the Viggen was a smart choice.
We have never seen Viggen take off and fly in wartime mode, i e, when the engine air locks are dismounted. Of course this would decrease engines life span considerably, but what a sight. And what about the highly secret rocket assisted take offs? No one knows what the needed take off strip would be.
@@JohnOlimb wait so this is like 4 levels slower than the absolute fastest takeoff the Viggen would have been capable of? At that point (afterburner, wartime engine mode, rockets) if I was a pilot I'd be scared to get crushed into a puddle by the G-forces
I like Viggen, but your Mach 3.2 is fantasy! This plane its same like Mig-23. Saab 125KN ,Mig23 127KN.Saab Mach 2,3 MIg- 2,35. Russian Mig- 23 wihitout missiles can easy fly Mach 2,5 and test- pilots 2,65. I guess that Saab can reach this top speed 2,6 Mach close to Mig -23. Mig-23 is fastest one engine plane in service. Speedmeter in cocpit of Mig-23 is Mach 3,0 !!!
this plane was designed to give the Soviets a nasty fucking surprise... I'm sure it would have given them nightmares if they even tried to invade Sweden.
Considering the equipment of the last manufactured Vigges, and thus the latest upgraded ones, a few of which still exist is very classified when It comes to specs, data, equipment and other systems, Im not too sure it's only half as effective. It would do just fine I promise you.
You re nuts. The Viggen may be a lot of things, but "beautiful" is not one of them. I mean look at that chunky fuselage, the weird bowed-out spine, the blunted nosecone, the wings shaped like a barn roof profile and big, cartoon-like canards. Excellent plane, but not beautiful. A Saab Draken is "beautiful", or an F-104. Maybe a Rafale or Mirage. A Spitfire (the English haven't made any beautiful planes since then, although they managed a few that were "attractive").
Saab 37 Viggen was epic! I do have to wonder, ......does the JAS 39 Gripen have any such reverse thrust and can it pull off such easy and quick turn-around??
The JAS 39 Gripen has no reverse thrust, the Gripen uses its canards as massive air brakes. But it can turn on a dime and is extremely maneuverable on the ground for the fastest turnaround time. About 8 min to 15 min at a road base with a trained mechanic and 5 conscripts to fully equip, refuel and brief the pilot on his next mission via radio so the pilot doesn't even have to open the canopy. This video shows the canards pretty good: ua-cam.com/video/w3qjfeEHJ-U/v-deo.htmlsi=modMZG8WaAR8I_QJ
It had excellent control even at low speeds due to how the canards were placed and worked. That waving to the audience is not as easy as it looks and most fighters would stall if they tried it.
those people, living close to Air Bases, and complaining of the noise from the F-35, the don't know, anything about noise, if you want noise choose a Swedish Aircraft, .
Yep, i growed up near Karup, the main base of the Danish Drakens, and a quiet day was a LONG THUNDER, , have newer heard the Wiggen op close, but it is by, told to , be a little bit more, and the Grippen, my ears tells me, , just from using , inbuilt mics, she's is the Queen, ,, . No matter, the Swedes, have don , an amazing job. The USA and The Soviets, must have, WTF, from time to time, .
I've had both Viggen and Gripen fly by very low over my country house. Its not that loud actually. But it does sound impressively. Since they are so fast, you don't really hear them coming until they are really close.
The Viggen jet engine has no limitation of speed, as a rocket ! But to manage this the Gas trottle was limited given Jet fuel. If not the fuel tank would be empty very quickly and jeopardising the flight Technically it can fly to the moon!
Vielen Dank! Auf Wikipedia steht dass das Triebwerk 125,04 kN Schub mit Nachbrenner erzeugt. In PS lässt sich das aber nicht umrechnen. Angaben dazu finden sich leider keine.
That thing is an afterburner with a cockpit. Good job Sweden!
Yeah! I did my military service as a Viggen mechanic in the 90:s, and during night missions we got to see Viggen starting on full afterburners in the middle of the night in the darkest of winter. The flame and the skull-shaking sound!!! Absolutely EPIC!
saw this plane @ luchtmachtdagen volkel and then "boom" startup of afterburner truly shocked me when he took off, what a difference compared to the F16's holland has lol
mäktigt gjorde lumpen på a4 på 80 talet. vi va ute på frösön å vår galna löjtis tyckte vi skulle gräva ståvärn i stenrös mitt i natten !!!!! då lyfte en rote från F 4 å dra åt fan va fränt me EBK svets låga och dånet mitt i natten muahaha ståpäls bara ja tänker på den upplevelsen ...... vi va rätt nära fältet !!!!! ha de
It's a pity Sweden was destroyed from within while the army was looking for an outside enemy which didn't exist.
@@dreamdiction exactly ! ! !
@@dreamdiction Funny, I live in Sweden and haven't even noticed that it got destroyed.
I really miss Viggen, growing up in the 80-90s right under their exercise airspace, the roar from it was something special, not only the sound but you could truly feel the power, your body shaked, the house shaked, the earh shaked, it was amazing. JAS 39 Gripen flies overhead sever times per week & it doesn't sound bad but it's more of an earpiercing sound, sometimes painful to listen to it's high pitch whine, nothing matches the low frequency high energy thunder of Viggen
Det var ren och skär kraft i den motorn. På den tiden skulle vi ju kunna jaga ikapp utländska företag som var på väg mot Sveriges gräns.
Det skulle gå undan ju och då behövdes det rejält med kraft 😉
Bor vid F17, och kan bara hålla med. Gripen lyfter precis över vårt hus, och det ljudet är... skarpt!
I like the comparison one pilot made between the two. The Viggen is like a Dodge Challenger and the Gripen is like a Porsche 911.
Draken is also had pretty epic growl..
Wow where did you live? I lived in Älghult/Alstermo, also in that practice area!
I saw the Viggen along with a Vulcan at Farnborough Air Show in the 80s and I still remember the sound of them both flying past, so close to the ground that it shook my my bones andknocked the breath out of me!
They were both stunning to see fly
This must be the coolest looking fighter of all time. That thing is just insane. I would run the other way just by seeing it in the sky. And that noise... geez. The only thing that comes close is an old P52 Mustang on full throttle. Another noise but still insane.
Well i'm born and raised just outside F7 wing of Såtenäs (My father did 42 year of service in SAF), there were limitasions to peacetime landing and take off noice, but when it came to the incident awarness flights (mostly Soviet, but also western), a rote of Viggens started with full thottle afterburners and rattle our china off the shelves! During the eighties this were quite common!
Saab Viggen and Draken. Beautiful jet airplanes.
This was the soundtrack of Swedish independence and neutrality during the 80s
I am seldom proud to say that I am a Swede nowadays, but when it comes to the JA-37..I am!!!!
Keeping that in mind, what we're looking at here is an AJS37 - quite a different "animal".
Yes, this is the Attack Jakt Spaning Viggen, not the Jakt Attack one. this one can carry a shit ton of ordinance
Can I ask why your no longer proud to be a Swede? I went there 2 years ago for a 4 day visit and had a ball of a time??
It's a great country but it's lost due to weak leaders.
@@lilljacob It's not the leaders who are weak, it's the polarisation that divides us that makes us weak.
The sad thing is that some political fractions profitises on thisin various media and makes us look weaker than we are.
Shame on them.
The Viggin like the F-14 can never truly be replaced and the engineering behind them is unmatched
i still remember one of these flying over me at treetop level when I was doing my military service. Scared the living crap out of me as it passed.. :) Was a photo recon one taking pictures of us for training....Nobody had any idea it was around until it had already passed...
All around the world there is one truth. Announcers love the sound of their own voice more than anything else.
Talked to a former Viggen pilot in the spring of -18 and he claimed that, when Viggen was new, they tried to land it hard but the ground effect was so strong that they hardly exceeded 17 ft/s. That´s 11 mph (18 km/h) vertical speed. Would probably work on an aircraft carrier.
People both landed and took of with the Viggen from carriers in DSC. Just saying ;)
One of the most iconic Coldwar jets from its time era... with still insane performance.... Mach 1.23 at sea level 200feet or brusching the tree tops... how many fighter jets have you seen land in 500meters and reverse on the runway ? land and refuel on ordinary country roads under 10minutes from 1970´s... Last ones where built in 1992... its sad that incompetent politicians ended its carer thinking it was a outdated fighter unaware it was still one of the best Low level interceptors in the world for flying super fast hitting sea targets witch still is the number one threat in Balticum it was a real waste of machinery and taxpayers money it would hade its place still...
on a the annual air show here i think it was in 2003 after the operation "iraqi freedom" som U.S F15 visited the airshow on their way to Norway showing the Strike Eagles i talked some with the pilots during the viggen display and one of the F15 pilots was stunned with the viggen full 3stage burn sound shouting my god it sounds like the Space shuttle... then i knew it was something really extraordinary
Gripen has simply made it obsolete. I agree the Viggen looks better though (although Gripen is very "pretty" if any military airplane is)
hahahahaha!! the car alarms going off in the background!!!!!! THIS IS A BRUTAL BIG BOY PLANE !!!!! Made the russkis fly into the sea - trying to keep up with it....
So brutal, my absolute favorite fighter jet, just taste the name VIGGEN, respect
Designed to strike fear into the Russians.
There are probably a dozen or more metal bands named Viggen.
Wish it will be added in warthunder soon
@@slent5346 it's coming next patch
The raw power of this aircraft is uncanny. Thie Viggen and the English Electric Lightening are Marvels of speed
Beauty flying. Love that jet engine sound.
Just the mighty VIGGEN... BadAss super plane !!! Like is my mandatory... Thank You!
The aircraft SAAB can move to back on the land. Amazing! This is done with jet streams directed towards the nose.
As I always says:
100% SWE music in my ears and even nostalgia!!!! ✈ 🔊 👂 🎼 🎵 🎶 ❤
From start to take off only 10 seconds.
The Viggen was far ahead of its time.
It wasnt most legendary planes like draken and viggen was in service for a long time
casual use of power is amazing in this aircraft , valdigt speciell !!
1975 I was 6 years old and heard a sonic boom from a Viggen. Clear skies, no wind... just an extremely loud bang from nowhere. I never saw the plane :)
A Rocket with wings. And the sound it makes.👍👍
*ROOOOOOAAAAAAAaaar beep beep beep beep*
Just another Viggen on an air show.
Viggen-car alarm dejavu
Spectacular! The Viggen isn't an airplane.....it's a low flying rocket!! Thanks so much for sharing this!
You're welcome! For more Viggen videos like this please visit my playlist of Saab Aircraft: ua-cam.com/play/PL_kDcX2_3upqOPOdYTkOsOBIlaPlnF1ou.html
It is mach 1.5 lowlevel cabable, Hi level 2.5 mach and rising
@@kurtsoderberg and no top speed, not enough fuel to reach it XD
Best plane for the era it was deployed into.
The Best multi roll fighter ever made. And, tiz beautiful. The noice is Fantastic
The Viggen was one of the best Fighter-Bomber of her time. Cheap and effectiv in multi roles. And his time far ahead in many categories. Bye Hans..
Indeed! Thanks for watching, and commenting! :-)
The thrust reversal of the Viggen in combination with the low landing speed makes it possible to land on very short runways. By Hans.
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I enjoy the Videos very much. Thank you for posting. Bye Hans.
My pleasure, and thanks for watching! :-)
The maneuver is very agile despite its weight, role, and age...
you know its only 11,000kg empty? a f14 is 19000kg and f15 is 12,000kg empty
My second all time favorite modern jet fighter. Love the Delta wings and cammo ones are cool looking. Have liked this since of was 7 and got one that was a Dynaflite, and still have it to this day all bet it's missing all but one roundal and 1 of its four bombs.
Fun fact this is the only known fighter to get a Radar Lock on the Sr-71 Blackbird. The Viggin drivers would track SR's as the would follow the same route, the and then the Viggin drivers would track and Lock on to the Sr-71 despite extensive jamming on the SR's account. Crazy as the Mig-25 Foxbat wasn't know to have ever got a Radar Lock acourding to Soviet defector Lt. Victor Belenko a Foxbat driver himself. Gotta love Swedish radar technology.
They could only radar lock for a few seconds. Thay could never shoot it down cus they had to have radar lock all the way and that wasnt possible
@@elefteriosmouratidis They escorted a broken one though and saved it from the russians...
@@elefteriosmouratidisthis is not true. They had radar lock long enough to finish the envelope of the missile.
@@andersmalmgren6528 We know by now, that this was because the SR-71 had to slow down a bit in order to pass Sweden on neutral waters in the narrow channel between Öland and Gotland. It is still a very impressive manoever, since it it is such a narrow time span. About 50 times it was done, according to Swedish fighter pilots in interviews.
Beautiful aircraft.
That thing rolls out quick
3 died by a heartattack due to the sound of a spacerocket. I miss seeing the Viggen play around in the sky....
Viggen “Thunderbolt” is the coolest name on a fighter ever 💪🏻
It's the bolt that brings the thunder, when you hear it, the ordnance is just about to hit ;)
Incredible machine. And now they have the Gripen....
Best cold war interceptor by far IMHO
It's an attacker/fighter. Our interceptor during the cold war was called J 35 Draken.
Elestro Air-soft
Why was the Draken the interceptor? Wouldn’t a Viggen be better?
@@crunks2955 It was designed to be an interceptor, wheras the AJ37 was designed from the ground up as a interdiction strike aircraft. Only later on did they create the fighter variant in the JA37, there were engine optimization differences, avionics and payload differences.
Elestro Air-soft oh no, all Viggen with the letter J (Jakt = interception) included in their version name were fully designed and used as interceptors.
There was a slow transition from using the Draken to the Viggen stretching from 1972 (37 Viggen introduced in the Swedish Air Force) untill the mid 80's for the interceptor role but that is foremost due to the restricted numbers of the Viggen in the early 70's and ended with the J35 being technologically obsolete in the 80's.
The Viggens with the letter J as the first letter in the name (such as JA 37 Viggen) was primarily designed for interception.
I fully agree with @Jebediah Kerman on his comment above and I also have to say that When the JA37 entered service in 1980 it almost completely took over the role as the major interceptor.
Of course the J35 had some remarcable features when it comes to interception and scrambling, one of the most impressive feature was the 1 minute capability to get airbourne (parked with engine shut off, fully loaded and prepared for interception, standing 'stand by' at the end of the runway (or at special locations very near the runway)).
The Viggen takes a slightly longer time to get airbourne from a 'stand by' position, even thogh we are talking about some 10's of seconds in this matter, every second counts when it comes to interception.
The double Viking Axe... with the sound of THOR`s Hammer !!! 🎖🏆🎖💪🦾💪
Viggen is a mighty impressive plane. It´s the Thundergod Thor on wings.
Took a trip to the Air Force Museum whilst in Sweden just to see one - natural metal finish is the best
Whaoo, amazing! the viggen and grippen the best
I wish the gripen was larger than the finnish planes tho but its tiny tinier than viggen
really superb wing design...
So ahead of its time.
Bei der Airpower 2016 in Zeltweg ging mir das Herz auf, Man sah sozusagen alles was früher bei der Schwedischen Luftwaffe im Einsatz war. Somit auch in Österreich, Dazu zählt die Viggen aber nicht, Aber die Österreicher und wir Luftfahrtenthusiasten durften uns mal wieder nach 11 Jahren über ein Display einer Restaurierten Saab Draken freuen. Es war zwar ein Doppelsitzer aber immerhin, Die Viggen war aber auch nicht schlecht. Tolles Display wie zu früheren Zeiten als sie noch Aktiv im Einsatz der Schwedischen Luftwaffe war. Ganz lieben Gruß nochmal!
Schweden tat alles, um eine Invasion des Landes viel teurer zu machen als das, was sie durch die Invasion verdient hatten. Schweden wollte ein neutrales Pyrrhus-Land sein. Ich denke, viele andere kleine Länder wissen, worum es bei diesem Grundprinzip geht.
Great fighter plane, great video mate!
Thanks a lot my friend! :-)
This fighter jet can literality start and land on a highway. It doesn't even take that long of stretch to do it either. Sweden used to have hundredths of those roads as air strips concealed for soviet. The reason was secure the ability to always react to threat and not risking to put all eggs in one basket like an conventional airbase. Today most of those hidden starting stretches has been dismantled. In present time, since the NATO/Russian arms race and rising tensions occur, we will probably start using that strategy again. We do need a lot more JAS 39 Gripen in service and battle ready. Almost 30 years of disarmament of our national defense has left us open and vulnerable if such conflict would rise. Lets hope not.
It's not that they are concealed. It's difficult to hide a 1km straight road. The idea was that there were so many so the enemy wouldn't know which one they used and if compromised, they could switch to another one within hours. However, if they were still in action they would use the normal airbases and they would only relocate if necessary.
@@azynkron no, they would switch around to new bases between each sortie, a Swedish combat pilot during the cold war was practically never assigned a specific return base once basic flight training was done, the mission briefings only contained a return vector, the flghter coordinator would then assign returning pairs to activated bases as they come back along that vector for refuelling and rearming.
@@SonsOfLorgar ?
We still have a fair number of them. It's just that they are not used. (in that way)
I checked and there is around 270 of resting places being maintained. (rastplatser) You might notice something about them, if you look at a map. They are all in connection to long straight bits of the road.
It sounds like a sword being dragged ripping through the fabric of reality
Sweet Viggen show, ..CHECK.
Random sniper on roof, CHECK.
Wait what?
Love this aircraft :) Thanks for the video
You're welcome! :)
What a beautiful purple flame
When Batman starts outsourcing the world will never know 😜
Such an unique aircraft! Sweden jets are the best!
It is just the cute, little RM8A engine. However, the really big animal was the RM8B in the JA-37, which is unfortunatelly not available anymore.
Uniquely designed and still an elegant jet fighter. Even more amazing that it's still flying today. Just wondering why this jet isn't as agile as it was in the past.
The sound of Thor’s hammer 👊🏻
6:17 nice sniper on the rooftop :D
It's for emergencies if for example a deer is on the air strip
@@edvinvikman9152 emh. With .50 ammo.
The aircraft is basicly built around the Pratt&Whitney JT8 Basic engine!
Volvo Aero adapted it then for single engine installaton with afterburner.
The JT8D engine was a proven and dependable engine back then on DC9 and B737 aircrafts.
So to use this engine as the Viggen was a smart choice.
Very nice footage!
Not like the good old days when full afterburner was several meters of trailing flames, but still impressive.
We have never seen Viggen take off and fly in wartime mode, i e, when the engine air locks are dismounted. Of course this would decrease engines life span considerably, but what a sight. And what about the highly secret rocket assisted take offs? No one knows what the needed take off strip would be.
@@JohnOlimb wait so this is like 4 levels slower than the absolute fastest takeoff the Viggen would have been capable of? At that point (afterburner, wartime engine mode, rockets) if I was a pilot I'd be scared to get crushed into a puddle by the G-forces
Sehr beeindruckend!Daumen hoch!Gruss inselvideo!
Besten Dank! Ja, das stimmt. Der Viggen ist wahrlich beeindruckend. Ist neben der MiG-29, und Su-30 auch mein Lieblingsjet.:-)
THE KING
Only the American Space Shuttle had a better sound but they are also retired.
I fully agree with you. Thanks for watching! :-)
Nah, the XH558 Vulcan is one of the best sounding planes.
Saab says its going 2.3 mach.... In reality this plane does 3.2 mach... This was the MONSTER of the Cold war!
I like Viggen, but your Mach 3.2 is fantasy! This plane its same like Mig-23. Saab 125KN ,Mig23 127KN.Saab Mach 2,3 MIg- 2,35. Russian Mig- 23 wihitout missiles can easy fly Mach 2,5 and test- pilots 2,65.
I guess that Saab can reach this top speed 2,6 Mach close to Mig -23. Mig-23 is fastest one engine plane in service. Speedmeter in cocpit of Mig-23 is Mach 3,0 !!!
Absolute bullshit. With that engine, RM8, and that frame mach 2 is really good. Mach 3.2 is nonsense. I served as a mech on JA37 in the early nineties
No!
Awesome shot))) Waiting for the following videos!
Thanks a lot! Fore more videos like this take a look into my Saab Fighters playlist.:-)
Thanks, I'll do it
Okay.:-)
du hast die höllen maschine supper erwischt. hoffe das die air schow dald wieder kommt fürs video💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍
Herzlichen Dank für das Lob! Ja, das hoffe ich auch! Schönes Wochenende! :-)
3-stage Afterburner! A real swedish plane only flies with Volo Flygmotor!
Awesome!
this plane was designed to give the Soviets a nasty fucking surprise... I'm sure it would have given them nightmares if they even tried to invade Sweden.
Gripen may be a better plane, but Viggen is so much cooler/brutal/menacing looking.
Double the size of Gripen - half as effective though. A real beauty and beast at the time anyways....
Considering the equipment of the last manufactured Vigges, and thus the latest upgraded ones, a few of which still exist is very classified when It comes to specs, data, equipment and other systems, Im not too sure it's only half as effective. It would do just fine I promise you.
Flying like a rock
Rocket
beautiful airplane
You re nuts. The Viggen may be a lot of things, but "beautiful" is not one of them. I mean look at that chunky fuselage, the weird bowed-out spine, the blunted nosecone, the wings shaped like a barn roof profile and big, cartoon-like canards. Excellent plane, but not beautiful. A Saab Draken is "beautiful", or an F-104. Maybe a Rafale or Mirage. A Spitfire (the English haven't made any beautiful planes since then, although they managed a few that were "attractive").
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Y LOVE SAAB ..
The best Aero fighter Ever 👍
Mommy , that is a christmas tree flying over here?
Yeah, but it would only deliver it's presents it to warsaw pact troops and ships XD
Swedish Santa is coming to town.
Thumbnail: fighter jet powered by milkyway galaxy in its tail
Saab 37 Viggen was epic! I do have to wonder, ......does the JAS 39 Gripen have any such reverse thrust and can it pull off such easy and quick turn-around??
The JAS 39 Gripen has no reverse thrust, the Gripen uses its canards as massive air brakes. But it can turn on a dime and is extremely maneuverable on the ground for the fastest turnaround time. About 8 min to 15 min at a road base with a trained mechanic and 5 conscripts to fully equip, refuel and brief the pilot on his next mission via radio so the pilot doesn't even have to open the canopy.
This video shows the canards pretty good: ua-cam.com/video/w3qjfeEHJ-U/v-deo.htmlsi=modMZG8WaAR8I_QJ
sounds like a freekin rocket!
Low speed pass was very impressive, F-104 at that IAS would have zero roll control and probably result in a smoking hole in the ground!
It had excellent control even at low speeds due to how the canards were placed and worked. That waving to the audience is not as easy as it looks and most fighters would stall if they tried it.
O melhor vídeo
The best.
Thank you! :-)
Awesome....!
the only plane that locked on a SR71...
Really practical plane.
SAAB Made in Sweden
So cool! 👍
Good filming...Viggen where a great plane....but not the most beautiful if you waant beautiful it´s the Draken Viggen´s predecessor .
Thank you for the compliment! For me all Saab Fighters are beautiful.:-)
I agree 100%. Was going to say basically the same thing.
Draken is ugly when it is on the ground but not in air
Awesome video
Thank you very much! :-)
Jas 39 sings J 35 draken farts AJS 37 Viggen roars !!!😁
Better then the US Air force fichter planes. thats for shure.
я в детстве так же ёлочку рисовал)))
Yeah, the nickname of the Viggen is flying christmas tree.;-) Thanks for watching! :-)
those people, living close to Air Bases, and complaining of the noise from the F-35, the don't know, anything about noise, if you want noise choose a Swedish Aircraft, .
Yep, i growed up near Karup, the main base of the Danish Drakens, and a quiet day was a LONG THUNDER, , have newer heard the Wiggen op close, but it is by, told to , be a little bit more, and the Grippen, my ears tells me, , just from using , inbuilt mics, she's is the Queen, ,, . No matter, the Swedes, have don , an amazing job. The USA and The Soviets, must have, WTF, from time to time, .
I've had both Viggen and Gripen fly by very low over my country house. Its not that loud actually. But it does sound impressively. Since they are so fast, you don't really hear them coming until they are really close.
I do not know who sounds the most, but I lived near F1 and the dragon was, at least, loud, very loud
The Viggen jet engine has no limitation of speed, as a rocket ! But to manage this the Gas trottle was limited given Jet fuel. If not the fuel tank would be empty very quickly and jeopardising the flight
Technically it can fly to the moon!
ビゲンカッコイイぜ！日本に配備して欲しかった
huge engine
Uma máquina que corta os céus
echt supper video wieviel ps hatt den die viggen
Vielen Dank! Auf Wikipedia steht dass das Triebwerk 125,04 kN Schub mit Nachbrenner erzeugt. In PS lässt sich das aber nicht umrechnen. Angaben dazu finden sich leider keine.
Wow