First time seeing Saab 37 Viggen STOL blew me away! [4K]
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2022
- Now I always knew Swedish Air Force fighters were designed for short field and rough terrain takeoffs and landings from improvised runways, but I never knew quite how capable they really were. The Saab 37 Viggen shows that capability off here with a STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing). For a Cold War fighter that is more than 50 years old, it was very impressive to witness for the first time. Especially considering the Saab 37 Viggen is neither small nor light. I really was blown away. Oh, and taxiing backwards? Super cool.
This was performed during day 1 of the 2021 Kecskemét International Airshow.
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When it landed I thought "yeah OK that's pretty short" but wtf was that takeoff! Wow!
less than 500m to stop with the reverse thrust. not many planes from the 1970is that can do that.
@@NiclasHorn And the ability to reverse whilst on the ground too, very handy feature on "road bases"!
Same here! Amazing! 😯
When I was in the swedish air force I was told the Viggen engine has enough power to start the plane straight up like a moon rocket.
I don't doubt it.
@@svensvensson2724 Not quite, but not far off. At a 90 degree climb, the Viggen will drop speed. but you don't have to be many degress off for it to be able to climb for a long time.
It has to be able to do this, and also taxi itself backwards without assistans. The entire southern roadnet in Sweden is littered with short landing strips (literally) with adjacent hidden bunkers for concealment, refueling and basic service. That way the enemy can't paralyze the air force by knocking out air force bases - the planes can still operate start and land anyway. But that means it had to have this "backing into the garage" capability 😀
The RAF could do with learning some of those lessons. We have so few military airfields. Since the end of the Harrier all we have that can be dispersed are a few F35B's.
@@gusgone4527 I would love to see the F35 try to land and take off from a farmers field like we did with Harriers on exercises in Germany in the 1970's.
@@AlfieDoug I was BAOR from 1977 and remember the Harriers well. With the RAF Regiment lads hauling those perforated metal slabs everywhere. I think an F35B could land on them but servicing in the field may be more difficult. Not that I know much about the maintenance required by the F35B, other than it's rather complex.
Perhaps I'm a little biased. but in my humble opinion Harrier was withdrawn at the worst possible time. Just when it was at it's GR9 peak. Our politicians need taking to task about that and many other poor decisions. With updated avionics GR9 could still do a very useful job now. With upgrades and life extensions, who know how long they may have lasted.
What do you think, retired too early or slow and a sitting duck liability?
I've listened to people argue that it's close support role is better served by Apache and the new Lynx or even a Super Tucano STOL variant.
If only the MoD had authorised the Super Harrier programme P.1154 powered by the insane Bristol Siddeley BS.100 engine. The world of fighter jets would be very different today.
You will find this very interesting.
hushkit.net/2012/07/20/the-hawker-p-1154-britains-supersonic-jumpjet/
@@gusgone4527 I was on 20 Sqdn in Wildenrath (closed down now) and we regularly deployed and operated out of wooded areas in North East Germany, those sheets you refer to weren't always needed it Very much depended on the ground conditions, they were mostly used in winter when the unprepared fields could be a bit soft and wet. Living and working out of tents under cover of woodland was different from our usual base operations but we got by, My off duty job was to dig a trench and keep the beer cans in it and give them regular doses of LOX to ice them up 😁 I never liked the idea of our government scrapping great British innovations and buying crap from America, Ajax tank is just one example, F4 Phantoms when we had designed test flown the TSR2 and for political reasons cancelled it, thank goodness no one at the MOD bought the 104 Widowmaker. The Harrier is still being flown but not by us 😢I am sure it would be more useful to deploy near borders where there is trouble Ukraine for example, not so easy to deploy F35's to remote locations in that kind of situation.
Every straight stretch of road in Sweden is a possible strip. They design the roads with this in mind.
Wow. I knew the Viggen had a short takeoff run, but to see it in action is spectacular.
That's one of a kind.
well it isnt loaded with weapons so yea
@@fergus247 yeah no weapons and probably light on fuel - but even so, that was pretty impressive…
awesome !🤩
Impressive yes, but the context needs to be understood, zero weapons load and probably light fuel load too so under combat conditions would likely be two to three times longer take off run.
Saw the Viggen at the Danish Air Show 2022.
The announcer said that "If you brought earplugs for your kids, NOW is the time to put them on!".
Viggen is simply a manifestation of raw power.
They were even more impressive 'in the old days' when reheat produced 2 meters of flame, and more noise and power. First saw it, and felt it, at Værløse in the mid -70s. We could see the light from the reheat long after the plane had disappeared in the overcast.
I was foolish enough to stand behind one (a couple of hundred metres away, at least) at Farnborough in 1982 whilst it took off with full afterburner. One of those times when you feel the noise in your stomach as much as hear it.
During my military service my plutoon secured a km long highway where JAS landed, refueled and took off within 5 minutes. It was pure beaty. Designed for Swedish strategy perfectly.
What regiment where u in? :)
@@biopower5160 I can't answer that as I am still on what's called Krigsplacering, ie I have a location and duty to report to if something goes wrong. I'll say it's a STRF90 plutoon and we were practicing combined arms.
Gripen!?
@@gerbdnas Yes. Saab JAS 39 Gripen.
Bassäk? Regardless what regement, thoose troops are bad ass!
My favourite aircraft of all time, and I'm an Englishman!
Seeing the raw power, noise and STOL capability at Finningley and then Waddington in the 90's and 00's was a joy to watch for a young enthusiast.
I've always loved Sweden's indigenous aircraft industry.
I fell in love with the airplane when I did my military service as an airplane mechanic in 1995 at F21 Luleå servicing Viggen.
Absolutely beautiful beast, with an awsome sound!!
The most memorable thing for me was when we were deployed to a small airstrip in Fällfors, during a military exercise. That specific excercise was only for the pilots, not for us, so we were only there to refuel and reload the airplanes, so we had no pressure on us at that time, and could calmly enjoy the landing and starting of the aircrafts in between.
I was assigned to the nightshift, and when we had refueled the airplanes we go to see them do a full afterburner start in the middle of the night, during the winter when it is pitch black. I can tell you the gigantic, enormous flame that was thrown out the plane during the start, combined with the earth-shattering sound and shaking of the ground was truely awesome, in the full sense of the word. I was litteraly in awe! Definitely the coolest thing I have ever experienced.
A lot of the "proper airbase strips" nowadays are privatised. Fällfors is mainly used for dragracing. The good thing with this is that it's probably a 48-hr job to make it safe for peacetime use, or a 12-hr job to be fit for wartime-operations. (Takes 2 different day-shifts to be double-sure there is not a single loose screw, bolt or other debris that could wreck a jet-engine on the ground.) Also anyone competent of operating a dragracing-car will probably be drafted as an airplane-mechanic in case of war :)
My brother did his service as a base personnel (or as he called it "snowclearer"/snöröjare, of course they were also firefighters and protection for the aircraft and site) at the base in northern Sweden, Gunnarn) back in the winter of 1995.
He told me about the time they had cleared the runway, really early in the morning, and a "rote" (english: a lead and wingman) of Viggens with full afterburners departed the base very early in the morning....
He was in a firetruck at the end of the runway and he described witnessing the event so poetically to me as "fire in the sky" when they took off.
It was one of the coolest, most awesome and beautiful things he had ever seen.
Antar att det är en 2:1 väg numera 😔
@@rolfholmstedt6856 om du pratar om Fällfors så är flygbasen en racingbana nu så landningsbanerna är som borta dock är flygrakan ute på vägen fortfarande kvar
The silhouette of this aircraft flying has to be the most badass ever designed!
It's how I'd imagine Darth Vader's personal transport!😂
I don't care that there are newer and better aircraft out there. Viggen will always be the meanest looking aircraft in existence for me. A favorite from my service days in the Swedish Air Force. During my time Draken and Viggen was operational and Gripen was undergoing tests to be accepted. A fun time to watch the runway. (I believe Lansen was in use too, as target towers for AA excersises. And of course SK60, "Lätta Attacken ")
Viggen was still the meanest...
Draken was always my favourite, ever since I made a model of it as a kid.
I also do like the brand new "Boeing SAAB trainer jet T-7A Red Hawk", it must be so fun to train as a fighter pilot in upcoming years!
Viggen has always been my favourite fire fighter. Gripen, I'm sure, is a far better air plane overall, but the raw power i Viggen...
Yep agreed
It was meaner looking in the old days, with the flame from the reheat flickering several meters out the exhaust!
.... den flyger högt, den flyger lågt,
Den landar på ett landsvägsstråk!
Viggen (Thunderbolt) is a huge engine with wings (Pratt & Witney). With full power (EBK) I have seen the plane rose straight up like a rocket while all the car alarms went off as the whole area vibrated. A real beast from the 70’s Cold War.
yeah, the engine (RM8A/RM8B) was built by Volvo. Development from a civilian pratt & witney JT8D-1
I'm so old I've even heard them brake the sound barrier during airshows. That sort of shanagans is long since banned.
@@BustaHymen I'm so old that I've heard them over a Swedish lake at very very low altitude. Straight over the boat I was sitting in pretty much. A bit loud...
@@BustaHymen My dad told me yesterday that our neighbur viggen pilot once spotted him and his dad on the sea, and made a dive for them - for fun. That is how old he is.
When i was a kid i was playing in the garden at our summer house and four Viggen aircraft wingtip to wingtip with a Hercules transport flew straight over my head maybe just 100 metres above the ground. The windows on the houses were shaking and the car alarm went off. The sound of those four jet engines and the four turboprops really left a lasting impression on me.
The reverse was impressive but that short take of was like DAMN!!!
It is not with full fuel tanks and armament, so it is a shorter start than in combat. But there was also a secret add-on. It could start on even shorter strips with the help of starting rockets attached. And of course, very few have ever seen this airframe starting in military mode, ie without the constraining brackets on the engine outlet. It decreases the engine lifetime considerably.
Seen it in the Y2K airshow in Scotland. The flying Xmas tree. What a fecking racket it made!!
This is pure jet fighter pron! I am proud of yours Swedes. Greetings from Norway! :)
No, that is a strike fighter, modified in the 1990s to be multirole aircraft. It started is life as a AJ 37 which is primarily used for ground attacks with limited air-to-air capability. The JA 37 is the fighter variant was introduce almost a decated later, the easy way to spot the diffrence is that it has a antenna in the middle of the fin and the upper part on the forward edge is not in line with the lower part.
The aircraft was modified in the 1990 with new avionics to be a multirole aircraft AJS 38 Vigen manage to get the multirole capability before JAS 39 Gripen, air recognisance capsules was only purchased after Wiggen was Viggen.
The last pure Swedish jet fighter was J35 Draken (Dragon/kite) It was a newer aircraft design than the A32 Lansen used for ground attack so the first Viggen variant was design for ground attack not air to air combat
If Finland is our early warning system, then maybe that makes us yours ;)
As a young child travelling with my parents to my grandparents home I moaned as we had to stop on the road for a traffic jam just to see two Viggen come in and land on the road a few hundred meters a head of us.. we where held for 10 minutes and then they took off again and a few minutes later the road was open and we could carry on. After that I was looking up reading about aircrafts.. It is a truly amazing aircraft.
10 seconds, only 10seconds to lift of after he turned...and trust. Amazing
Since I love this plane I have to share a video where they are a little more aggressive.
ruclips.net/video/4IaWn7kX4Es/видео.html
The Great Viggen - missed by many!!
Indeed
Sweden have Viggen and Gripen
@@AS20SWE Viggen means Thunderbolt and Gripen means Eagle - it can catch every incoming intruder!!
@@andersleofranzen7019 ik
Griffon, not eagle
Let's face it, most things that come out of Sweden are good looking and they build pretty good planes too.
Yes your right as a motorcycle enthusiast we know Ohlins suspension from Sweden as the best in the world. 👍
Saab 900 Turbo fan I take it. Of course you would never have meant the girls!😉
Tiger Woods would disagree. He said Swedish things lack soul.
Thanks!👋
haha, yeah love my Volvo V60 too 😅
This is not an aircraft but a spaceship. What a beauty and crisp machine.
Damn, that was impressive. The thing could take off out of a parking lot! I also didn't know that it could go in reverse.
Any plane with thrust reverses is capable off reversing. However, its really not standard procedure 😆
Though check this out, even used in commercial traffic:
ruclips.net/video/SySNTEgXJp4/видео.html
This is hands down one of the best sounding jet engines ever!
Hence the name “Thunderbolt” 👍🏻
@@petter5721 It isnt thunderbolt. Vigg means edge as in the cutting edge of an axe or a plow, in modern swedish its "egg". Åskvigg means thunderbolt or thunderaxe but theres no åsk(thunder) in viggen.
The Viggen is one of the most beautiful designs right up there with the Tomcat. 💙
❤️Tomcats
Landed in DOWNWIND direction, very impressive, then STOL into upwind...very efficient and tactically sound. No bothering to waste the time of backtracking the runway to take-off. Drop-in, refuel/re-arm/ drop off doc pouch and then bug-out.
It is always fun being out on a road far from anything in Sweden and suddenly the road get a bit wider and dead straight and you know it is one of the road landing strips.
Yeah and the occasional thin and short tire mark, letting you know that pretty recently that wasn’t a road
If you are not in a hurry it can be fun to have to stop and wait for a plane.
@@57thorns I've never been that lucky
It happened more frequently in the 80s
@Bjørn _So glad you folks are joining NATO now_ Not sure about that yet. Ask Turkey. 😂
An engine with wings and a reverse gear for a sleek two-point-turn - magnificent!
Ok, the reversing really got me. I didn’t see any flaps behind the nozzle. Are the wheels powered?
@@ralphpeteranderl4063 Flaps are inside the nozzle :) You can see the thrust reverser openings under the vertical stabilizer.
@@ralphpeteranderl4063 It reverses the engine. It can do that as long as there is enough pressure on the nose wheel (as a safety catch).
@@azynkron I'm pretty sure it cannot run the jet engine in reverse. Instead, it redirects the stream. Google for article called "Thanks to its unique thrust reverser the Saab 37 Viggen could land, come to a full stop, perform a Y-turn on the runway and take off in the opposite direction" for details.
Coolest fighter plane ever...period...
Alltså man blir stå stolt att man spricker när man ser allt göttigt vi skapat genom åren!
It is very good looking, but I am a little more partial to the french rafale
i was attending an air show in Lappeenranta, east of Finland in -94 or -95, and a Viggen was there. Afterburners on, that is still the loudest sound I have ever heard.
As a native Southern Californian, never was able to see one up close and personal, but still my favorite aircraft of all time. Being near Miramar I have to qualify my second and third favorites are the F-14 and F-4...but the Swedes....damn that thing was awesome .👍
❤️Tomcats
As a Swede, and rating only to best looking jet-aircraft. My favorite have always been the Su-27 Flanker. Second is F-14 Tomcat. Third Jas39 Gripen.
@@petergrandien1440 love the Flankers. Elegant and brutal at the same time.
Viggen still beats the c**p out of a lot of modern stuff, and it looks like an aeroplane!!! That reverse gear gets me every time!!
Love the 3 point turn. The Viggen could back into a hideaway in the forest alongside a road, ready for instant take-off
I remember as kid when these flew over our farm, many times less than 20m of the ground making the whole ground reverberate and me almost shitting my pants, I have heard many stories about Viggen one when they tried to sell it to the Norwegian Airforce and they had a showdown where the Viggen landed on the Norwegian airbase perpendicular to the runways did what you saw in this video and then took off again.
*snorted my beer from my nose almost*
This is my childhood fighter jet. I’d look up into the sky during lazy afternoons in the 80s knowing everything was just fine as long as i saw these guys keeping me safe. We have an air force base close to our summer house and we could see these planes going in and out on patrols and exercise missions, every now and then they’d blow the afterburners a bit off shore and go supersonic.
@Karl with a K no they didn't because they're not American and the F-22 cannot be exported
@Karl with a K Viggen was built in the 70’s and the Raptor more the 30 years later so it’s like comparing a Mustang with a Viggen! What where you thinking? 😉
@@Hiznogood typical 'murican "fighter jet enthusiast". Except fighter jet only means their own planes to them. You could be on a sukhoi video, a viggen or a typhoon video, and you're bound to find these insecure idiots talking shit about the plane and how their f-22 and f-35 are superior in every conceivable way and how other countries are fools to even try to make their own planes.
@Karl with a K ...shit, you got me there
Looks like it came out of a Star Wars movie!
Grew up hearing these things above my house. That sparkling sound is just amazing.
Barndomens ljud🇸🇪
Really miss Viggen and all the very low flights they always made over the house where I lived.
OMG! The Swedes just do it better than anybody else!
Swedes have a knack for creating extremely terrific weapons that also happen to be very beautiful.
When they said STOL they were not joking. Just loved the way it reversed and took off. You sir get your driving licence for sure 😉
1:42 Wow I’ve never seen a video so perfectly capture a visualization of the tremendous volume of air being passed through a jet engine when it opens to full throttle!!
If you ever think your job is stotaly useless. Think about the two people on the PA system still speaking when the plane took of
As a kid in the 90s i remember hearing these beasts thundering across the sky pretty much every other day. Nowadays you rarely get to hear any military jet aircraft.
They still do a fair bit of flying, but perhaps you lived close to a (now closed) airbase?
The Soviet threat is gone....and Russia's current military capabilities are suspect at best. I look forward to the day that a post-Putin Russia will have to go hat in hand to the West to restore its economy after their disastrous invasion of Ukraine. That would be a great opportunity to make a deal that would eliminate their land and Submarine-based ICBMs for good....at least one could hope.
@@goobfilmcast4239 Last time it happened in 1991 we just opened up an huge black market and playground for corruption which we reaps the fruits of now.
Thats one bad bird! Viggen is brutal!
The Viggen really makes the air vibrate. It's like thunder.
Like a vigg.
And they complain that the Gripen is noisy... But the Viggen has that low frequency noise.
@@ehsnils The best way to describe it is if you take a compressed air gun and blow, its quite noisy because all this air has to come out of a small hole. The same thing is with the Gripen with its high pitch noise. The Viggen on the other hand has a much larger exhaust side so the high pitch noise is lower, the rolling thundery noise is way greater. You feel the viggen in your body. This experience i got at Danish Airshow when the swedes displayed their 4 aircraft.
I had the opportunity to, during my conscription, be seated about 50m from the runway during an exercise, seeing Viggens land and take off. Astonishing. My favourite plane from the cold war era.
I was a mechanic on Viggen 1992 for 1 year..epic plane..so powerful
Love the 37 Viggen noise. Seeing it in action and close up is something you won't forget, it makes the ground rumble.
I remember watching a Viggen display at Mildenhall, many years ago. It left a lasting impression. I seem to remember the acceleration was phenomenal. So glad I got to see it.
This is just pure mean badass.
I grew up in Sweden and we used to see Viggen on a regular basis. Some Draken and Lansen too. It was always the Viggen that stood out though, because of the sound. It truly tears the air apart. I was also lucky enough to see some do target practice on ground targets. They came in very low, rolled over, aimed, shot, rolled back and then went straight up. That roar when they went up... goosebumps!
When I was doing my military service I had the rare opportunity to stand behind a Viggen at take-off. Some 70-100 meters behind and about 30 degrees out. And when it hit its afterburner the inside of me danced to the tune of the sound. It was really awesome to experience.
@Karl with a K well, at the time, Viggen was good. The Raptor is a generation later. And I am capable of loving the sounds from both of them, AND rate the Spitfires RRM-engine as the greatest sounding engine of all times! :D
Never proven in combat ,how would it perform
@@cnfuzz It proved well enough for the Russians to never attack. Proof enough? An american plane in trouble also got escorted with Viggens to a safe place.
If the performance from the start is good enough to deter any enemy, you will not need any combat. Suits me fine.
@karlwithak1835 Viggen is the only fighter that manage to do a radar lock on a SR-71 that use to take a short cut over swedish territory.
Coolnes! brings me back to the childhood. Beutiful piece of kit.
literally never seen this thing before and been a self proclaimed aviation fan my whole life lol. what a beauty😍 I've always loved the Gripen but I didn't know Saab had this kind of history!!! cheers from the states
As a kid, my father worked at a swedish airforce base and I got to stand by the fence next to the runway. One viggen was taking off and I remember the vibrations in my chest, It felt like my organs where re-arranging! 🤣
My all-time favorite fighter. Such a beauty!
The only plane able to do parallel parking.
That's nuts! Awesome!!!
It is staggering to think this aircraft was on the drawing board in the late 60's . Speaks volumes for the NATION of SWEDEN and SWEDISH TECHNOLOGY .
Actually, it first flew in 1967 so it was on the drawing board in the late 50s - early 60s 🙂
the power of the swedish army. proud to be swedish!
Yep, when I was 7 I first rode my bike to the flightwing F13 in my home town, we lived like 5 km away, up intill i was 12 i tok my Bike down to the fence that was closest to the underground deployment site. You know that the Viggen ca flod it’s tail to fit underground hangars?
Oh, all short stops and takeoffs and also the F13 wing had the official show pilot, Ulf Johansson.. I’d love all those moments, regardless sun, rain, cil, wind or snow. I was fanatic.. The 30th of june 1994 when politicians thought that peace would be forever it was closed down. Notable is that in 2018 4 pilots from the f13 wing where presented with the the US Air Medal for assisting a crippled SR-71 home to safety.
I remember when I was young and there was a flight exhibition in town, my grandfather worked at the airfield so he knew what happened... the Viggen pilots made a bet with the Americans on who would be in the air first... the Viggen pilots jumped in their planes and took off while the Americans had 10 minutes of preheating of the engines and other things... :)
Planes
@@williamjordan5554 good of you to find a spelling mistake... English is my second language and I'm dyslexic on top of that... So if the spell check don't catch my mistakes... Then how am I supposed to catch them?!
@@nissetorvang1709 I'm an English teacher. I am teaching. Dictionaries are for spell checking too. They are books.
@@williamjordan5554 so you are English, and you are a teacher. What do you teach? Sarcasmology? Do you know what I hate? Effing English besserwissers! How many languages do you speak? Please answer in Swedish!
@@lars-ovewesterberg8426 You have a personality disorder. I was just trying to help.
Stunning
That baby's puttin' out some serious thrust.
Super Sweedish! Super cool! It's amazing such an incredible design is considered outdated. What other supersonic fighter can you parallel park?! Nice to see at least one still flying for heritage sake! A salute to the many thousands of engineers and craftsfolk that made it fly possible!
what a beast!
Whoah! 😨AWESOME! Never seen that before! 👍🏻
an 8-second takeoff - that was viggen amazin' !
Love the Viggen .. had an airfix model of this as a kid .. loved how it looked
You got a like from me, not because of your comment, but because of the awesome username :)
Such a beautiful plane - SAAB has made some pretty sweet ones - and they just keep getting better at it. When you see it, it's hard to believe they're retired now!
300 m start and 400 m landing... WOW! 3 ground crew members for support makes JAS usable on local highways for temporary combat missions. So versatile!
Astounding! The Viggen has always been one of my favourites, and the Draken another. Beautiful designs.
When I was 9 years old I got a scale model (1:72) of this Saab Viggen. I did my utter best to paint it to perfection and since then I am really in love with this jet!
when i was a kid we lived out on the country side like 40km from F16(airforce base) and during the summers you could lie on your back in the front yard looking up watching several viggen flying in formation and such and on occation even Draken squadrons, was realy awsome, one time a viggen pilot desided to do some low flyby and scared to crap out of all of us, and he got abit to low that he was about to hit the treetops and he hit the afterburner to avoid crashing and actualy singe'd the treetops slightly of some fir trees, was insane but awsome :D some year later there was another flyby but much higher that time =) miss those days.
Then we have pretty much the same childhood memories. I was lying on the lawn watching when they practiced so called dog fights. One day I thought the house would collapse. When four C-130 Hercules with five or six viggen escort flew at low altitude straight over the house. I lived about 80 km from F7 Såtenäs
Amazing. That thing launches like a top fuel dragster. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Tbh. the Viggen was never a favorite of mine. But after watching a few documentaries I'm seriously impressed of the plane and its capabilities. And it makes me even more sad that we here in Austria choose the Eurofighter over the Gripen (ok, maybe because of some money flowing in dubious directions...). The Gripen would have suited our needs far better and would have been far cheaper to maintain. And I think it also looks better :)
Really? The Viggen was always a favourite of mine... Oh, sorry, no, that's the VariViggen, slightly different ;-)
🚫 But the politicians you speak of would've been stuck with SMALLER kickbacks if they'd spent your tax dollars on the cheaper, more reliable jet!
❓ How do we expect them to be able to afford palatial vacation homes all over the world, if we don't allow them to take advantage of the much more lucrative kickbacks they receive from buying the vastly more expensive and more problematic weapons systems! It's all about priorities!
Now in Czechia our dumb Minister of Defense wants to switch from Gripen for F-35, so...
@@plama1192 The Gripen is a 4th/4,5 gen fighter. the F-35 is a 5th gen fighter. I wonder why they want the F-35. Oh and probably because the US government says so lol
@@BKBCrAnK Many of us in the US don't like the F35 either... It's a solution to a problem that no one had.
Arguably the most awesome looking plane ever made.
Now…This,is a formidable machine😊
how fast its accelerating and taking off again.. stunning 😮
That takeoff is pretty amazing.
I'll never forget being at the Vattenfestivalen, water festival, in Stockholm sometime in the early 90s seeing Viggen and Gripen (the year prior to the famous Gripen crash in the middle of Stockholm which I also saw) doing a show. I remember watching the mighty Viggen thunder it's way in the skies... super impressive. And then, is it someone whistling? Is it a fluit? No it's Gripen up there. They should definately have changed the order. And Viggens flying by in formation at home when I was a kid was super common. Love it.
You say: First show-off Gripen, fast and whistling, then, as the grand finale, the roar of the Viggen? I like that "show-thinking", but I think they showed the historical progression from an easy detectable fighter plane to the new generation, superfast Gripen (which could be more widespread in Nato countries).
Anyhow the JAS 39 Gripen is way louder than J37 Viggen was... 😉
@@richardessving1862 I prefer getting my ears damaged by a mighty rumble than a whining noice... 😉
@@Robert306gti ruclips.net/video/VgtABg9WFgo/видео.html
That was an insane short takeoff 😮
I was not expecting that!
Aaah, that sound ❤️
It was and is a very capable jet fighter. A quite advanced fighter for its time.
@Karl with a K not really, both are technologically advanced solution designed for their own set of design parameters. Normally you don't compare apple to orange.
@Karl with a K the viggen had a completely different role to the F22. One's an air superiority fighter and the other a strike aircraft. It wasn't designed to fight aircraft like the F22 is. It was designed to take off from roads, go somewhere fast as hell, drop it's payload and get out asap. It was also in service 40 years earlier...
@Karl with a K did you miss the part of "for its time"?
@@AlexKall He is too stupid to understand that.
@Karl with a K you seem to have some kind of cognitive impairment.
Growing up in the 80-s, i heard and saw the Viggen and Draken in the sky almost on a daily basis. Usually they was in pairs ( 2 airplanes ) but sometimes there was more. I lived about 40 km from a "warbase" for these fighterjets. Sometimes they flew very low and when they passed over, the drinking-glasses and other stuff in the house was shaking from the sound.
It can take that. During the development they threw Lada engine blocks into the engine and it chewed them up…just kidding. But it is a tolerant craft.
Holy shit. That was very impressive :)
That was impressive, very impressive
If you've stood that close and felt the power of that engine, you've experienced something unforgettable... Too bad it wasn't a plane with green camouflage, that's what makes this plane beautiful. Must be single seater too.😊😍
A good video😊👍💝
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
My best aviation moment is when a duo (Rote) of Viggens were taking off at full power a mere 100 meters from my position by the side of the runway...! 💪😍
Mine is from F10 1990. 50 Draken taking off and gather up to form one gigant Draken in the air.
I was doing my conscript time in 1993 on F10, and I've were placed on an air base. One day there landed a Hercules that the Lv4 "AA regiment" would learn to load some radar equipment. During the day we got called on the radio that 2 viggen that had been out on a border intruder mission was coming back and they needed to be refilled with fuel quickly, in 5 minutes we were ready and the rote 2 viggen came in for landing, I was in a fire truck when they landed and then we helped to refuel. The officer for the lv4 asked our officer in charge on base if he's guys could come out and see when the viggen would take off, No problem he told them, and told them they could stand on a grass covered hangar in the end of the runway. They took there vehicles and quickly took that position. Now I was back in the fire truck to be ready when they should take of, we had a radio in the truck that we could hear the talking between tower " just a cabin" and the pilots, The officer told the pilots that we had visitors that on the end of runway, The pilot's wanted to put on a show and asked if they were allowed to take of with full power, tower said it's ok. Then they asked if they could make a over pass, the tower said something like 100m height. Both taxed out and were standing beside each others. And then they give full throttle and full afterburner like the plane in this video. We were parked in the middle of runway 2800m long. And they were airborne after 4-500m and when they passed us they had already retracted there landing gears, The whole truck just shaked when they passed us, they were flying just a couple of meter over the runway 2000m, then they turned left going straight over the hangars the lv4 guys were standing an when they just passed over them close, there was 20 people and I think just 5 were standing after they passed them, looked really funny from were we was sitting, one of ours officer said that all there caps were flying of there head to. that's a memory that I never forget that momen and the mighty sound of viggen, like a thunder strike that just goes on and on. Or a volcano eruption maybe but that a airplane can make that much thunder is just unreal..and cool😀😎
@@patrikeriksson6052 I have a somewhat similar story. I did my service at Lv4 1989-90 and we where on final exercise on the island of Öland. At the same time the air force had exercises over the baltic sea so they were flying over the island anyway, so they had agreed to act like targets for us to aim at. One of them got really sneaky. he came in over our position really low and slow, gear out, high alfa, and when he knew we had seen him it was gear up and afterburner on. Man... That sound and those vibrations going thru your body.
WOW!! I used to watch F-106s when I was a kid...this plane reminds me of the thrilling awe I felt back then!
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Beautiful aircraft 👍
Here in Australia the General Dynamics F1-11 was always my favourite growing up, it was around for a long long time having a long service life from the 60’s and only retired in late 90’s. It was not a STOL aircraft but nevertheless it was extremely noisy and a lot of the comments here remind me of the spine tingling sensation when they flew overhead. This Swedish aircraft here looks so graceful yet so functional. I love it!
Thanks for the video 👍
JEFF, we almost bought Viggens instead of F 18s. I remember voting for them in workshop debates in the late 70s and early 80s.
The 111's air-show special (the fuel dump-&-burn) is still a favorite of mine.
As a Swede who made his military service in the Swedish air force I have to disagree... 😊 In my view Viggen does not look very graceful, but it is Very mean looking. A rather good quality in a war plane I think☺️. Watching it fly was another matter, there one could see grace and delicate moves along with brutal raw power. (Not to talk about the sheer wind it produced just by turning during taxing. I was blown of my feet by a kerosene smelling hurricane once when one of our Viggen was in a hurry to take of. It was a rather hot wind too.)
Gripen though is rather graceful though, both as it looks and as it flies.
Incredible short distance takeoff. Also, it looks like a dragon from a distance flying in.
Great aircraft. Never seen such a neat 3 point turn on a narrow runway. Quite a few planes could in theory reverse using thrust reversers but they dont because there's a high risk of blowing up debris which then gets injested into the engine.
Still remember the viggen in mid 90s I was on a ferry from Denmark to Sweden in the middle of Kattegat, standing on the top deck a clear summer day, one of them came racing low level in the same height as the deck.
I was 12 years old, and the sound from the engine stayed with me to this day, a true Cold War monster.
Watching the video I wondered if I was listening to Finnish or Hungarian audio. Then I saw the location tag KECSKEMÉT. It is amazing how similar and yet isolated these two languages are.
Was the language Hungarian? It reminded me of Finish but there was something that didn't really sound like Finish.
@@theRealRindberg The location mentioned in the comment is of a city in Hungary. There's your answer.
I've seen this at a couple of airshows. Always the highlight of the day.
These are obviously very powerful fighters!
And as much as I'm in love with the slightly newer SAAB Gripen model (and that plane makes me cry whenever I see one), I'm surprised that the Viggens aren't still in production as of late. They almost kinda resemble the old Delta Dart fighters from the same era.
Absolutely one of the top fighter jets of all time! It was famous for hovering, standing still, upright in air and then accelerating straight up like a rocket. Very few jetfighters can do that today. One back then. If you give full throttle and add the afterburner, and throw the release leaver on "war", it has a top speed that would surprise most people, even today. At that speed you have 7.5min of ludicruz speed before the fuel is empty. But what a ride..
I once saw a DHC 4 Caribou transport aircraft pull a similar stunt at a small regional aerodrome in Australia . It was a medical evacuation for a high level foreign diplomat , who had be injured in a car accident . It was impressive.
To see a Mach 2 fighter jet do the same is mind blowing !
I remember seeing a Caribou landing in Brisbane in the 90's in a fierce headwind. It was going so slow from the headwind that from the time we first saw it on approach to the time it touched down, felt like half an hour had gone by! Probably could've ran on foot faster than it haha. The DHC-4 was a magnificent and gracious beast.
Amazing. Had read about it, the aviation magazine quoted 270 mts. I think is even less. What a plane. A marvel of Sweden engineering.
A ridiculously good-looking and capable beast
Viggen had an enormous trust blowed away the air force boys from the end of the runway?
F7 Såtenäs Squadrons Viggen pictured on this clip used any stretch of highway and camouflaged few meters into the woods for easy acess to a relible highway if the airfields was destroyed.
Russians in deed feared the Swedish Air Force
Very Nice aircraft i saw This at Karup airshow 2022 and was also blown away. When this beast tale off it’s like a earthquake
This take off is incredible short! It whould be a headwind of 40 knots!!! Sick we did this engineering in Sweden 🇸🇪!