@michaeltaby This aircraft is the only plane who ever locked a SR71- Blackbird. And that happend not just once. Viggen was an awsume aircraft who was very stable at low altitude in high speed!
I've heard both your stories. Viggen was the first non-american fighter to lock target on a Blackbird. The Blackbird went the same route every day always the same time so after a while the Air Force used to send up two Viggen and wait for the Blackbird in the air in Kalmar strait. There were many cat and mouse games during the Cold war.
Most Americans have a high opinion of Sweden. You guys have great military, and I hope our two nations can be friends. We may be bigger, but that doesn't make us better, and we're not always right. Don't let the comments of a few, tarnish your view of the rest of us.
Volvo Aero a subsidiary of Volvo and they have made engines to nearly all Swedish military aircrafts since the 1950s. And the engine in the Viggen is no exception. My qualified guess.
The original music for this vid is "The show must go on", with a band called Ghost. The band is made up of fighter pilots and staff from F10 Ängelholm, which had the ghost as their squadron symbol. Thankfully they fly better than they play/sing.
Hmm both yes and no, i'll correct you and fill you in. No we didn't send a fleet to Finlands aid. But we gave Finland food, vehicles, weapon worth more than the whole Finnish budget for a year. After the Winter war we also co-founded,70%, the Salpa defense line. We also trained a norweigan division, 10k men, who after the German surrender returned and took control over Norway.
cause we were neutral we game norwegian partisans a haven in sweden were they could plan their missions against the germans, and btw 8500 voluenteers from sweden went to finland and fought the soviet who invaded their country, we even send a fleet
@michaeltaby Im am a captain-commander of the Swedish Airforce try my saab aj-37 viggen, there's no way an F-16 can match a nuclear attack aircraft with 50 megaton hydrogen-bomb at it's belly!!!
The guy says that Sweden WAS a warrior nation before we turned into peacelovers! Read, understand, reply! No Swedes aren't cut to fight, but who are? The old Spartans maybe. And we've not bailed out in every important conflict, what is an important conflict? Important from an American point of view or a Swedish? And for a small country like Sweden it's often best to stay out of conflicts unless you're forced to act, we've never been forced!
The Swedish word for when Germany was allowed to use the Swedish railway is "Permitenttrafiken". It means that only German soldiers on their way home for a leave were allowed to use the Swedish railway. NO Norwegian Jews on their way to concentration camps traveled on Swedish rails, end of discussion!
And don't try discuss Sweden and how Sweden have acted through history from your American way of seeing things. First when you understand Sweden you can be taken serious. Sweden does what is best for Sweden, sometimes it is best to be a chicken. And peacetime excersises (with USAF for example) show that Swedish pilots are among the best! Luckily they don't have to use their skills in a sharp situation. And Swedish weapon industry is more than decent! Make love not war! =)
Let's not get into this discussion of how The Swedes bowed for the Germans request of transient traffic of division Englebrecht from Norway to Finland. Your neighbours aren't particulary happy with you for that, still to this day. Sometimes it pays to be a chicken, but sometimes you have to stand up to what you believe in. I am pretty well versed in Sweden, its history and geopolitics. So I don't think that's an issue here.
if you are reffering to the ww2 we did`nt have much of an army to fight with, if we started war with germany we would have getting our asses kicked in matter of days, and they would have walked thru our country anyways, and cause we were neutral we did more good then if we started a war with the germans, and can you blame us for not being invaded???
Gustavus Adolphus. The father of modern warfare. Look it up. And, dude, your country hasn't been on the winning side since WW2. And that war wasn't even won by you, even if you entertain the story that it was. It was the Red Army that broke the Nazis back. Now, every single war since then has been lost: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. And don't come dragging that bullshit about "conflict" vs war. Per definition there is no difference between an armed conflict and war.
Can you please cut the crap about Carl XII or whatever his name is....This is (was) a great aircraft, but the Swedes aren't cut out to fight. For what we know you have bailed out of every important battle/conflict in the 20th century! Nothing goes to prove that your so called pilots can stand up to the pressure. Your weapons industry (Boforg?) is decent but what's happened to your country and the budget in the past decade leaves a lot to be questioned whether you are able to fight or not.
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rip F15 Söderhamn, Sveriges bästa Viggenflottilj!
@michaeltaby This aircraft is the only plane who ever locked a SR71- Blackbird.
And that happend not just once. Viggen was an awsume aircraft who was very stable at low altitude in high speed!
I've heard both your stories. Viggen was the first non-american fighter to lock target on a Blackbird. The Blackbird went the same route every day always the same time so after a while the Air Force used to send up two Viggen and wait for the Blackbird in the air in Kalmar strait. There were many cat and mouse games during the Cold war.
A big smile on my face... Proud to have done "lumpen" on F21.
Most Americans have a high opinion of Sweden. You guys have great military, and I hope our two nations can be friends. We may be bigger, but that doesn't make us better, and we're not always right. Don't let the comments of a few, tarnish your view of the rest of us.
Not the soundtrack I remember for this video. I saw it years ago
Tjo, bra video.. vad heter låten till den bara? lite synd att han/hon inte har skrivit det.. för då sparar man såna här fråger!
Volvo Aero a subsidiary of Volvo and they have made engines to nearly all Swedish military aircrafts since the 1950s. And the engine in the Viggen is no exception.
My qualified guess.
what looks good flies well
Woow :D My Heart Just Melted :D im so proud to be a swede !
The original music for this vid is "The show must go on", with a band called Ghost. The band is made up of fighter pilots and staff from F10 Ängelholm, which had the ghost as their squadron symbol. Thankfully they fly better than they play/sing.
@michaeltaby Yeah, strange that no other country used Viggen :P
viggen är jävlight bra att flyga
Hmm both yes and no, i'll correct you and fill you in. No we didn't send a fleet to Finlands aid. But we gave Finland food, vehicles, weapon worth more than the whole Finnish budget for a year. After the Winter war we also co-founded,70%, the Salpa defense line.
We also trained a norweigan division, 10k men, who after the German surrender returned and took control over Norway.
Where is the JA37?
@CmJH det är sant till 110%
cause we were neutral we game norwegian partisans a haven in sweden were they could plan their missions against the germans, and btw 8500 voluenteers from sweden went to finland and fought the soviet who invaded their country, we even send a fleet
i meant the early 1700`ds
sweden has always been a warrior nation until the early 1800`s with the death of karl the 12`th.
Vad dillar du om?
@michaeltaby Im am a captain-commander of the Swedish Airforce try my saab aj-37 viggen, there's no way an F-16 can match a nuclear attack aircraft with 50 megaton hydrogen-bomb at it's belly!!!
The guy says that Sweden WAS a warrior nation before we turned into peacelovers! Read, understand, reply! No Swedes aren't cut to fight, but who are? The old Spartans maybe. And we've not bailed out in every important conflict, what is an important conflict? Important from an American point of view or a Swedish? And for a small country like Sweden it's often best to stay out of conflicts unless you're forced to act, we've never been forced!
Says "JA 37", first pics is an AJS.. lol
The Swedish word for when Germany was allowed to use the Swedish railway is "Permitenttrafiken". It means that only German soldiers on their way home for a leave were allowed to use the Swedish railway. NO Norwegian Jews on their way to concentration camps traveled on Swedish rails, end of discussion!
And don't try discuss Sweden and how Sweden have acted through history from your American way of seeing things. First when you understand Sweden you can be taken serious. Sweden does what is best for Sweden, sometimes it is best to be a chicken.
And peacetime excersises (with USAF for example) show that Swedish pilots are among the best! Luckily they don't have to use their skills in a sharp situation.
And Swedish weapon industry is more than decent!
Make love not war! =)
Let's not get into this discussion of how The Swedes bowed for the Germans request of transient traffic of division Englebrecht from Norway to Finland. Your neighbours aren't particulary happy with you for that, still to this day. Sometimes it pays to be a chicken, but sometimes you have to stand up to what you believe in. I am pretty well versed in Sweden, its history and geopolitics. So I don't think that's an issue here.
if you are reffering to the ww2 we did`nt have much of an army to fight with, if we started war with germany we would have getting our asses kicked in matter of days, and they would have walked thru our country anyways, and cause we were neutral we did more good then if we started a war with the germans, and can you blame us for not being invaded???
Gustavus Adolphus. The father of modern warfare. Look it up.
And, dude, your country hasn't been on the winning side since WW2. And that war wasn't even won by you, even if you entertain the story that it was. It was the Red Army that broke the Nazis back.
Now, every single war since then has been lost: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
And don't come dragging that bullshit about "conflict" vs war. Per definition there is no difference between an armed conflict and war.
Can you please cut the crap about Carl XII or whatever his name is....This is (was) a great aircraft, but the Swedes aren't cut out to fight. For what we know you have bailed out of every important battle/conflict in the 20th century! Nothing goes to prove that your so called pilots can stand up to the pressure. Your weapons industry (Boforg?) is decent but what's happened to your country and the budget in the past decade leaves a lot to be questioned whether you are able to fight or not.