British Soldier Reacts to If the war came - Ep. 2: Death in the Air (Om kriget kom, Döden i luften)
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2024
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RAF was over to fly Viggen in the 80's. Jaguar pilots from Coltishall came over to SwAF 6th squadron at Karlsborg (Where the Jägarsoldat did their basic training by the way). Here are some of what's said in that interview
Im born 1981 and grew up in Karlskrona my father at that time was a airbase engineer/groundcrew on Ronneby F17 airbase. He told me when i was old enough that the whole homeguard was mobilized in our area and his groundcrew unit was ordered to prepare the hidden runways across the neighbouring provinces. It all happened like that at the flip of a switch. Thankfully it never got hot war but seeing what happened everyone was convinced the war was coming especially when they heard Sovjet rescue force was on their way.
I lived in that town, Söderhamn, where that young man died.
The inscription at the Air Force memorial wall read, translated to English: They did not love their lives so much that they shunned death
People have mentioned the interview with the British pilots.
Prime minister, Torbjörn Fälldin's order to the air force, when the USSR fleet units were on the way to cross into Swedish territory, were. "Hold the border". Short, simple and impossible to misunderstand.
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This hard warlike training and the price that cost has given Sweden something extraordinary. JAS 39 GRIPEN. With each limit reached and passed knowledge and experience were gained and not lost. For every new fighter SAAB developed this knowledge and experience was put into that coming fighter. With SAAB's close cooperation with the Swedish pilots, each fighter became better and safer to fly. Tunnan -> Lansen -> Draken -> Viggen -> Gripen. This is why the US-made fighters did not cut it when we looked for a new fighter to replace the Viggen. JAS 39 Gripen E version even meet the civilian safety verifications and validations - Cerified twice over one could say. And that is something no other fighter plane has yet. Just look at the General Electric F-404 engine Volvo AERO redesigned and called RM12. Through the running fleet of flying JAC 39 C and D that engine has flown more than 300.000 flight hours without an engine fail on its own..... just saying.
In my youth, I remember the Swedish Air Force jet fighters, passing by the beach or our summerhouse at 15 - 20 meters altitude - Wow BOOOOM. And this was the normal. Everyone understood the Air Force needed to train as if they were at war 24/7 365. No one complained. To the daily training, they had the QRA duty. They literally sat in their cockpit, engines kept warm. I've seen facts telling the Draken fighter being in the air 19 seconds after the National defence radar system spotted an unknown. 19 seconds! All by the data link we had back at the end of the 50's. Some years we had over 500 annual Quick Reaction Alerts. This involved 2 - 4 fighters meeting, identifying and ousting other nation's air units. That is more than once a day. The Swedish Air Force was a good intelligence source for NATO as they usually were the first to spot, record, photograph and identify the USSR's new air assets. And yes a lot died during training under warlike parameters. They knew they would not survive any war. They were to buy the rest the time to put up the defense.
Them fly harder then
One of my first strong memories is of a pair of Viggen passing just over me playing in the garden. Remember looking up and seeing them pass just over our house. If you ever get the oportunity to see a areobatic Viggen preformance live, do it, that ting will rock your world!
I think around 550 swedish fighter pilots died during the cold war
This was the air force in which I served 35 years. Anders Johansson, who features in this episode, is a friend of mine. We both were in the same class at the Air Force Academy. I have worked in several of the underground facilities shown in this video, and know quite a few of officers featuring in it.
E1 was the Strike wing in the Swedish air force during the cold war.
There is a statement flying around, I’m not shure how true it is but it goes something like this: during the Cold War Sweden was the country who lost most pilots and planes (in percentage) in the world despite never being in war, that proves how really hard they trained.
If you find this series enjoyable, I suggest 'When the War Comes'. This is a newer production that has the same presenter. His discussion this time revolves around future war scenarios.
Your commentary volume is a wee bit low.
I would say in the 50, and 60 USSR was well a head of Sweden, but in the 70s Sweden was catching up, and by the whiskey on the rocks incident, i would say with the combination of Viggen and Stril USSR airforce would have a really hard time in the air fighting as well at during that time there own airforce started to rapidly degrade. Viggen might have been the most advanced aircraft in the world when it was launched. And stril was probobly the most advanced comand system.
Those pilots that were sent to meet the Soviet ships had one order, "hold the border". Pretty scary what could have happened
Back then in the 60s and early 70s, Sweden had the most combat aircraft in the entire world. Today it is not like that.