Swedish Airforce

[marder666]

I'm in love with this plane. and her sister AJ37 Viggen! Real Swedish angels, once wings of our nation!

[dieautos1]

Finnish Air Force F 18 solo display (from cockpit minicam)

[88Tomm88]

i gonna give you all easy here.

The swedish defence plan was after 1952 after the swedish dc-3 did got shootdown they took atleast 50-60 air mission each day and hade 30 fighters around sweden ready to start and engage hostile/unknown aircraft/flying objects.

The swedish pilots did go in on soviet borders (closest ever was 2.5 miles from estland). If any soviet or non allied aircraft did come in our airspace we did give them 1-2 warnings if they didnt respond we engage and nock out the object

[muuckee]

Yes, the swedish cold war fighters were designed to land on streets, the viggen can also reverse (don´t know if it´s that usual today..) The planes were also hidden in the forest and there were also underground airbases, so that the soviets didnt know where we were! we also did this with our naval bases...

[SMJeOma]

russia or america need to use their technologic cuz these planes can land on even a street awsome right ;p?

[1889SSWolf]

The Tunnan was the best jet in the world because it was a copy of the German jet Focke-Wulf Fw "Super TL". Every one of the fighters and bombers used today by America, Russia, Britain, Sweden and so on were all copied from German designs in WWII. Even the American B-2 Spirit is a remake of the German Horton 229 bomber. If it wasn't for Germany, the world would still be struggling along in bi-planes.

[Badger071]

@1889SSWolf You are totally right. Couldn´t agree with you more. Yes the Tunna was almost a rip off of Kurt Tanks Focke Wulf TA-153. Greetings from Dänemark!

[MikeInc79]

Nja, nu var det inte riktigt så att det var en MiG-29 som jagade en Viggen utan två Su15 varav en störde rotetvåan i en rote Viggen. Den ena Su15 höll med med loopingar, hissningar m.m. framför och runt rotetvåan och till slut tappade Su15-piloten kontrollen och gick ned i spat. Därefter vände den andra Su15 hemåt. Dessvärre skulle inte Viggen haft så stor chans att kunna kurva sig en luftstrid med en MiG-29.

[granskare]

draken isn't a sweet old lady but a nasty mean old man LOL :) it's just too mean looking for the air forces of the world to tolerate, what with the sweet looking airplanes they have designed :)

draken is a great airplane for certain !!!!

[Dogsledfan]

Does anyone know if there were ever any "unofficial" arial engagements between the Swedish AF and the USSR's piece of crap MiG's? There had to have been airspace violations from time to time. The only "official" combat action that the Swedish AF has, to my knowledge, is in The Congo in the early 1960's alongside the Indian AF's famous Canberra bombers. I forget what planes were used [by Sweden] in that action, though, without looking it up. I think one is still on display somewhere, though.

[MudRat02]

Call it a coincidence, but it seems every slanderous remark aimed at Russia comes from a citizen of the US, your age particularly. A bit of red fear still there? Lingering anti-USSR propaganda from the Cold War? Do your research, you'll find that the Su and MiG aircraft lines are very competitive with western aircraft. The Su-27 and derivatives has performed favourably against the F-15 and Eurofighter, whilst Germany's previous MiG-29's more than proved themselves against Swiss F/A-18s.

[MudRat02]

Oh, and by the way, fantastic plane! Gotta love the Draken, great versatility right there.

[Scenium]

It was the J29 Tunnan (Flying Barrel) that our airforce used in Congo. :)

[Az3trk]

yeah but it no longer happens with Sweden...

(in case this appears somewhere else its to the "Today it happens about ones a month that the air force locks at foreign fighters, not just Russians." comment by smorgasbord3

[smorgasbord3]

There is actually a well known story in Sweden that one pilot (most likely flying a Viggen) succeed to lock a missile at an American SR 71 Blackbird. This by climb up with his fighter to a very high attitude, actually he was forced to shut down the engine because lack of oxygen. However he restarted the engine and flow straight down against the much faster Blackbird and was able to lock on to it. Of course because it was a friendly aircraft firing was never considered.

[Scurck]

Swedish J-29 Tunnans engaged one enemy aircraft in the air over Congo, it took damage but disappeared into clouds. Later it was found crashed on the ground with evidence of severe damage in the tail section from cannon fire.

Swedish Viggens have had several know engagements with Migs over the Baltic. One of the most well known are when a Mig-29 chased a Viggen but could not keep up in the tight turns so it crashed in to the sea.

[Az3trk]

Tunnan - at the time probably the best plane in the world. If youre swedish check out Svt's site programs, there is an episode on that and on the secret military bases where an underground complex would spit out 1 Tunnan per day!!

[smorgasbord3]

One of the best planes ever produced by saab...

My list

1. J29 flygande Tunnan

2. J35 Draken

3. AJ37 Viggen

4. Jas 39 Gripen

5. 32 lansen

[coolhand050194]

beautiful plane !

[ecomoc4u]

still one of the most beautiful planes flying...

[Dennan83]

oh.. J37 och J35 rockar fortfarande och kommer alltid att rocka! :)

[SgtDrDeath]

J35 Draken och nu F35 Joint strike fighter HAHA Gripen är still grymmas idag :-)

[pgif]

visste ni att J-35 draken var sin tids mest avanserade jakt/bomb plan. Älskar Saab aerotronics.

[VIGRIFIGHTER]

Ja, 35 Draken F (Filip)var under många år det

bästa stridsflygplanet som fanns i Europa, kanske i världen.

[lillebo]

Underbart!!! O vad heter låten, förresten...??

[NilssonJ]

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[lsdhlsdh]

Fan vad snygg maskin:)