Shame that Poland didn't chose this plane. F-16 and it's somewhat imperial requierments (as costs, staff, runways) are ridocolous to Poland financial and territorial defence capabilities. Eh ...
Sweden is very clever in turning public roads into landing strips in case of war. Like on this film.
I wonder why no other countries does this.
I remember some times that I was on a trip to sweden, driving on some of these roads, that are ment for landing fighter jet's. We could easy do this in Norway and Denmark too. I dont think the F-16 requires more ground personell or any longer landing strip, than the JAS gripen does.
Well, yes they do... The F-16 ordinary requires a 1000 metres runway, a 20 man crew and 30 minutes turn around. The Gripen only needs 400 metres of runway, a 9 man crew and 8 minutes turn around time.
(turn around time = the time it takes after the aircraft is landed and it´s ready to take off to it´s next mission)
Sorry, I don't believe you when you say that F-16 requires 1000m of braking length. At least the Norwegian F-16 dont requires that long stopping lenght.
The Norwegian F-16 have brake parachutes and have a much shorter stopping length than the normal F-16. Norway was the first country that ordered the F-16 with brake chutes, because of many short and icy runways. Many of the Norwegian runways are not so much longer than 1000m either.
There were talks of making a carrier based Gripen. It would need modifications to put a hook on it. Theese modifications will most likely not become reality unless a customer would require it. So, currently a carrier based Gripen is not in the works and probably never will be.
Gripen landing on a carrier without aid may have been done in a simulator, but I believe it is not possible without the carrier speeding into strong winds.
I once meet american aircraft tank crew on an exercise and when they saw this plane land back up and do the sort take off the captain of the plane turned to me and said "What the hell is that???"..He had seen many planes in his days but noone doing that.:-)
did you know that the emblem on the BMW is a propeller in the sky because they made airplanes before the car's and if you look at 70's and 80's BMW's the dashboard looks a lot like old prop planes the way they display there gauges and clocks pretty cool if its a 325 its got to be supercharged :) :)
the road thingy is the smart thing becaus it dosent mater if the enemy blew up all the aitfealds we still got the roads
blixtenkarting 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Shame that Poland didn't chose this plane. F-16 and it's somewhat imperial requierments (as costs, staff, runways) are ridocolous to Poland financial and territorial defence capabilities. Eh ...
xaliemorph 1 year ago
Shame that Poland didn't chose this plane. F-16 and it's somewhat imperial requierments (as costs, staff, runways) are ridocolous to Poland financial and territorial defence capabilities. Eh ...
xaliemorph 1 year ago
what name song?
torkel2009 2 years ago
Great Multi-role Fighter !
chimpl 2 years ago
Great machine! and i agree with technoswitch hehe :D
bmwman87 2 years ago
Så jävla snyggt. Jag blir alldeles varm och god av positiva känslor när jag ser detta. Underbart.
ralfhedenhos 2 years ago
I pass this particular road strip a couple of times each year... :)
mbitgizmo 3 years ago
Sweden is very clever in turning public roads into landing strips in case of war. Like on this film.
I wonder why no other countries does this.
I remember some times that I was on a trip to sweden, driving on some of these roads, that are ment for landing fighter jet's. We could easy do this in Norway and Denmark too. I dont think the F-16 requires more ground personell or any longer landing strip, than the JAS gripen does.
to88he 3 years ago
Well, yes they do... The F-16 ordinary requires a 1000 metres runway, a 20 man crew and 30 minutes turn around. The Gripen only needs 400 metres of runway, a 9 man crew and 8 minutes turn around time.
(turn around time = the time it takes after the aircraft is landed and it´s ready to take off to it´s next mission)
nudeheaven 3 years ago
Sorry, I don't believe you when you say that F-16 requires 1000m of braking length. At least the Norwegian F-16 dont requires that long stopping lenght.
The Norwegian F-16 have brake parachutes and have a much shorter stopping length than the normal F-16. Norway was the first country that ordered the F-16 with brake chutes, because of many short and icy runways. Many of the Norwegian runways are not so much longer than 1000m either.
to88he 3 years ago
1km thats almost just as long as a train uses
job115 2 years ago
There were talks of making a carrier based Gripen. It would need modifications to put a hook on it. Theese modifications will most likely not become reality unless a customer would require it. So, currently a carrier based Gripen is not in the works and probably never will be.
Gripen landing on a carrier without aid may have been done in a simulator, but I believe it is not possible without the carrier speeding into strong winds.
Nails077 3 years ago
An awesome plane, one of its kind!
In theory it could land and take of from an aircraft carrier with no catapult.
And Gripen has the full multi role and the fastest turaround time in the world (road base).
SgtDrDeath 3 years ago 2
Ne, det kan den inte, den behöver väl en 300 meters startbana(väldigt kort iofs) och 800 meter att landa på vad jag vet.
DefaultSlayerSWE 3 years ago
wow the USA does not have fighter aircraft that can operate on roads and highways thats cool props to Saab on there design great jet :)
mrtheoperator 4 years ago 14
I once meet american aircraft tank crew on an exercise and when they saw this plane land back up and do the sort take off the captain of the plane turned to me and said "What the hell is that???"..He had seen many planes in his days but noone doing that.:-)
McDiezel 3 years ago 11
Actually at least the F-18 can do that, us finns operate them from highway bases regulary.
Killfis 3 years ago
Yes but you have a lot of problems with that and it is very costly to operate.
Finland should have bought Gripen instead!
SgtDrDeath 3 years ago
They still should*
Killfis 3 years ago
@mrtheoperator think about the f-35
DZgoodTimes 1 year ago
this plane is like a BMW 325M
technoswitch 4 years ago
did you know that the emblem on the BMW is a propeller in the sky because they made airplanes before the car's and if you look at 70's and 80's BMW's the dashboard looks a lot like old prop planes the way they display there gauges and clocks pretty cool if its a 325 its got to be supercharged :) :)
mrtheoperator 4 years ago
nope, never new about emblem, but i knew about engines that they developed 1-st turbo-jet fot Me-262 that was a beast against B-29 USAF
technoswitch 4 years ago