How Sweden made the best fighter jet - Saab 35 Draken 

Fun fact: the Scania Wing, also known as F10 Ängelholm, flew the J35 till 1993. This air squadron is now disfunct but their logo lives on: it is that ghost found on every car from Koenigsegg. ✌️

"and its sequel, ww2 Electric Bugaloo" That shit made my day LOL

Like imagine trying to outsmart a jet by being slow and he just sits behind you wondering what you are doing xD

Finally, Sweden mentioned!!! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🔥🔥🔥

We in Austria bought them as our first fighter jet - at a time when everyone else sent them into retirement. (Yes, our polititians are notoriously cheap when it comes to defense). Our mechanics kept them flying for many years - even visiting Swedes were impressed, they knew the Draken only from the museum.

The Draken is really one of the prettiest planes ever created, along with it's modern equivalent, the Grippen

German troops were not allowed to pass through Sweden to invade Norway. German troops were allowed through "on leave" or back, and injured personnel, but that was after Norway had capitulated. And officially at least they were supposed to be unarmed. The only occasion German troops were allowed through, armed and in fighting condition were from Norway to the Finnish Lapland. This was after a govt crisis allowed as a strict one time measure, which they enforced later on. The first mentioned traffic seized the moment the military comparisons between Sweden and Germany started to tilt in Sweden's favour as the Germans were stuck in the east, and the risk of famine due to loss of imports (primarily coal and fertilizer) was eliminated.

here we go again: The name of this aircraft is NOT if translated into english, "The Dragon", but instead the not so very cool name, "The Kite". "Draken" in swedish can mean both. It was the wife of one of the chiefengeneers that when she saw the first prototype in the air, exclaimed (hence the neme): "Ohh, it looks like a kite!", or in swedish: "Åhh, den ser ut som en drake!", due to the deltawings.

When I was a guardi at a shooting range for planes, we had mainly two types, the F104 and the Draken. F104 came in at 400 meter height when shooting at the targets, while the Draken often came in at 15 - 20 meter height. When the guards in the second tower where taking a nap, the leader asked the Draken to fly over the tower and turn on the after-burner, that could wake them up for shure :)

"Unintentionally broke the sound barrier" best accident ever

How not to like Sweden?! They gave us the Saab, Volvo, Scania, Koenigsegg, Swedish House Mafia........ ❤❤❤❤❤

as a kid I had a bunch of 3 inch plastic fighter jets that might have come in cereal boxes in the early 70s. The Draken was my favorite.

I once had an opportunity to sit in operational Draken's cockpit. Was installing a weather radar display for Finnish Air Force and during the lunch break the pilots gave us a tour in the hangar.

The Swedes did not let Hitler pass through to invade Norway, Hitler did so through over running neutral Denmark.

@3:01 "Due to the size of its territory" - Shows a Norwegian valley.

In Sweden, we have an old saying: The best way to make a SAAB fast, is to put an engine built by Volvo in them 😉 Those Rolls Royce engines were made by Volvo. I live close to one of those stretches of roads that are built specifically to be used for landing/takeoff. It has never ever been used for street racing, or high speed runs 😇

The jet that really put Saab on the world stage!

As a dane i do like to tease/poke fun at the swedes but I will say they do build some pretty cool things

Massive error , german soldiers were never allowed to pass through Sweden to invade Norway 1:52 2 months later when Norway was lost and the allies pulled out were the germans allowed "Permittenttrafiken" Edit: In October 1939, the three kings and President Kyösti Kallio of Finland met in Stockholm. Sweden tried to do another "tre kungamöte" like it had done in 1914 , and basiclly called all the other neighbours to join forces in order to stay out of a second world war , which had been done successfully in the first one. But this time both Norway and Denmark said no, thinking Sweden was trying to drag them into a possible war with Russia over Finland. Second Edit: Still not bad with the pronunciations , heard much worse from other fellow aussies

The J-35 is definantly the best first go to pick in Ace Combat Zero. Shout out to Espada Team! Captain Alberto Lopez《Espada 1 to Espada 2. Its time to stop the Demon Lord.》 Second Lieutenant Marcela Vasquez 《This is Espada 2. Roger. Lead the way.》

As an American I've got a bias to American fighters but I will be damned if this isn't perhaps one of the best looking fighters ever it just looks the part

Finally, more plane content

if you stop at 14:22 the Draken with the red white red paint job is called the "Ostarrichi Draken". In 1996 one austrian Draken was painted with the colours of our flag and the writing of the first written mention of austria in a document from 996. So to celebrate 1000 years of the name the plane got painted and was the "airshow presentation Draken for austria from then on." But at first nobody knew about it outside the airforce. Shortly after they painted it, there was an airshow in austria. And at some point the speakers started playing "our secret second anthem" and this plane started into the air for a display. I have never experienced >100 000 people *silent* in admiration together before. And i have never seen my countrymen this moved (positively) by a piece of our history before or since this event. In later airshows people were expecting to see it until the Draken was retired. Small detail about the part where yugoslav aicraft entered austrian airspace during the first stages of the slovenian and croatian wars of independence: Since WW2 austria was not allowed to own missiles by the treaty of the allies after WW2. So when the first of these aircraft entered our airspace the government asked the former allies if we could buy air to air missiles. And they agreed and further defined the clause in the treatey to only forbidr surface to surface missiles. And so Sidewinders were aquired. As soon as they were here, the intrusions of airspace had stopped. Before that, the austrian Drakens were only equipped with their guns. Btw.: at least one of the yugoslav pilots that entered our airspace landed his Mig21 here and asked for refugee status. The Mig 21 was given to Serbia 2 or 3 years ago for a museum. (it was in an austrian Museum since he landed.)

Bro called them "Dangerous pilots with big forearms" lmao, 2:30

The SAAB 210 was massively under powered and no way near the sound barrier. However, some say the prototype of SAAB 35 did break the sound barrier at it´s first flight.

Nice, a video about the Draken! 😄 As a kid, my country has been using F-16's for as long as I could remember, and all kinds of American jets before that. I think I first saw the Draken in a book about european jet fighters. I still think its the most gorgeous jet that I've ever seen. Looking forward to those Viggen and Gripen videos!

When I was a young teen I built a couple of Draken plastic models I painted them shiney black and before fully drying I sprinkled them lightly with glitter on the nose and tail. One was gold on the nose and silver on the tail while the other was vice versa. They were my UFO interceptor force.

1:57 worth noting though that the swedes later did train norwegian "police troops" (which were actually military)

Nice that more and more people are recognizing that the Cobra Move was invented by the Swedes and not by Pugachev. ☺️👍

About the many deaths so were those more linked with ground attack missions that wasn't flown by Draken, but Viggen. They were such a terror on the phone lines that the flight floor had to be raised to from 10m to 20m.

12:50 Swedish pilots: That was fun; same time next week? Soviets: Sure comrades but don't pull that crazy move again

I lived near military airfield in Finland when i was kid. It was very cool to see Drakens overflight fields where we play, sometimes they break sound barrier and we kids rejoice so much. Later that not happend, maybe regulations tighten.

Fun fact: the J35 Draken’s weaponry is called “Drakens tänder” (“Dragon’s teeth”) because how the armament looked like teeth

Saab makes some GOOD jets. Glad to see them getting some play~!

Superb video, many facts about the drake I didn't know before. There are many comments so maybe this has been mentioned before, but hey: drake is the swedish word for dragon and also the the word for kite. When the "lill-draken" flew for the first time a SAAB engineer thought it looked like a kite, hence the name. Drake=kite, draken=the kite

Interesting. I was mostly familiar with Saab due to its automotive products, the 96, 99, & 900 in particular. I've seen pictures of the Draken and wondered about it. I'm glad to hear that such a striking airplane was exceptional.

The star of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and Infinity. 70 years of Saab 35 Draken.

15:07 wrong year, buddy, its not 1940s

Next episode should be the Saab 95.

The Swedes are very good in thinking out of the box in their designs. They are very good in thinking from its needed purpose.

First, if not the earliest plane option in Ace Combat Zero, I can hear the hangar soundtrack...

One of best looking jet fighters. Ever. Made a model when I was young. 👽👍

As the Me-262 became dangerous to fly at high subsonic speeds (above mach 0.86), calling it supersonic is kind of a stretch.

Soviets: make a plane and overegagerate everything good about it. Americans: spend years to maticulously design and make something that can defeat that. Sweden: makes something because looks cool and accidentally makes something better than both.

Swedish drakens! Flying the skies! Forged in Saab, by the hammer of AB! Out of Asgard, where the aircraft flies! Never to turn back again!

A group of engineers made some adjustments to the wing area and what I recall the leading edges, making this one outperform Viggen, Not so many people I think know about this. Due to Viggen being the successor, and much money at stake, they had to lay the project to rest. It would have been interesting to see how far the improvements would have taken this fighter. Imagine a new engine, better avionics etc. The two seater school version lacked the heavy equipment such weapon system and so on, was given the name “Turbo Draken” by the pilots. There are numerous stories about this aircraft sturdy construction, some pulling G’s beyond belief without a scratch. Stories or myth, it’s a cool one. In the 80’s I had the chance as a kid crawling through one without an engine installed. Also sitting in the cockpit. It was a dream come true.

”If we have the best planes we also need the best pilots” quote from a documentary called ”pappa och kalla kriget” i recomend it there are texted versions on youtube

This jet is LOUD irl, glad I got to see it at an airshow

You did alright with the Swedish. It’s a notoriously non -buttery smooth language

German troops were not allowed to pass through Sweden to invade Norway. After Norway was conquered, german soldiers off duty, returning to 'shore-leave', were allowed to pass through. Not saying that's good either, but the things are wastly different.

iirc the reason for Sweden not being one of the founding nations of NATO was (at least partly) due to not wanting to leave Finland behind, as they, at the time, were locked behind the Iron curtain

If you are going to talk about Swedish military equipment then you have to make a story about their unique turret less tank, the S-103 with a driver at the front and the rear so it could "get out of Dodge" in a hurry. Later models lost the rear driver but the front driver could still go in reverse as fast as in forward. No turret equals lower height, the better to hide or ambush the enemy with. However, it meant moving the entire tank to aim properly. Up sides and downsides. From the outside, it looked like a normal tank minus a turret but with a cannon strapped to the top of the hull. As I said, unique for a fielded item of military hardware. Others have fooled around with this formula, but no one else had made one in numbers.

You got to talk about J29 Tunnan, and a32 lansen

As a Swede I think you did pretty good pronouncing the words and I’m very excited for the next videos in this series

6:27 Well, you heard it here folks, the Me-262 could go supersonic!

It's actually named after the kite after it's looks. Drake is Swedish for both kite and dragon

Nazi-Germany did invade Norway from the sea, not from Sweden (what you refer to is that soliders on leave could travel back/from Germany, and there was also the midsummer crisis when they moved a division from Norway to Finland, but that is different).

One of the most unique looking jet powered fighter planes ever.

4:56 The F35 Draken

So good to see some love given to the Draken

J 35 Draken, the DRAGOOOON! Except it also means kite, and was named after one because it looks like one. Like the J 29 "Tunnan" that looked like a barrel and JA 37 "Viggen" can technically be named after those sharp wedges you use for cutting. But "Viggen" Can be short for "Åskvigg" (Lightning bolt) or just bolt. Only with J 32 "Lansen" (Lance) and JAS 39 "Gripen" (Griffin) did we choose explicit cool names :^)))

The Draken is the coolest looking aircraft of its time. Totally futuristic and wickedly scary.

Australian accent is best suited for RU-vid vids, makes the content buttery smooth to take in

The first time I knew of this plane's existence was as the 'fast mover' from the movie 'Firebirds', aka 'Wings of the Apache'. Much like the Avro Arrow, the external aesthetics look extremely slick and modern, even by today's standards. I realise fighters are more about performance than looks, but the Saab 35 Draken certainly is a stunning looking beast!

Sweden doesn't even know why they can cook Doritos so spicy😂😂😂

The jas39c is so good In warthunder you should talk about it one day

The US John Boyd lead "Fighter Mafia" that developed the YF-16 prototype, studied the Draken in particular, noting it's very low wing loading, good power to weight ratio, giving it among the best turning ability, standing out among contemporaries.

This was before Computer assisted design... Engineers had to draw this and hope It would be great in the wind tunnel.

Amazing video! I love the draken, and Swedish aircraft in general

Also, in the Finnish Aviation museum near Helsinki Airport, you can fly the draken in a dedicated simulator which is not super realistic but has the neat feel. And it's included.

Such creative videos you’ve on this channel. Just subscribed!

Could you do a video on a supposed helicopter jeep or heli tank? I forgot the actual name but I would love to see it! Keep up the work ❤

Hilarity ensues when foreigners find out its actually the "Kite" and not dragon...

I love this jet. Back when I was a kid in the 80s I thought it was the coolest looking jet in the world (I still think it looks like a starfighter or something to that effect, which is why I thought it was cool in the first place). Alongside the XB-70 it helped ignite a love of aviation that continues to this day. Also, that the Swedes didn't join NATO when russia was objectively more powerful in the guise of the ussr, is rather interesting. The implications of them joining are a good topic for discussion, and the question of 'what changed between then and now?' is also very good.

The real life Macross SV-262.

My man let me tell you that your segway into the sponsor is the best segway I have heard in IDK how long.

This is mostly just a summation of the Cobra maneuver Wikipedia article, would have liked to see more on the actual deployment, tactics and weaponry of the aircraft.

have been looking forward for a video on the draken :D

austria had it until 2005 there are very nice pictures of good by liveries out there

Gripen next!!!

Imagine the timeline where Draken eventually developed into a space fighter, and call it Vic Viper

7:59 roll and pitch are controlled by the elevons, yaw is controlled via the rudder as on conventional designs.

Dispersed operation remains a cornerstone in Swedish doctrine. Even Gripen can land on a regular road, be refuelled and reared by a crew of 4 enlisted and a single technician operating out of a 10' shipping container, and be airborne again in 15 minutes

I read the memoir of Erik Bratt, the designer of the Draken. He wrote that when his wife heard what the new plane was called, "The Dragon", she said that she supposed she should be flattered that they named the plane after her... 🙂

6:35 The Me-262 wasn't supersonic. The slight sweep wasn't done to increase its speed but to mitigate the change in center of mass caused by the engines being heavier than first expected.

Omg ide love to see another one of these with the Viggen it was so good! :D

Thanks so much for covering my favorite aircraft!

Those crazy Swedes XD

Great video! And don't worry about the pronounciations, they were some of the better ones I've heard from englishspeakers on youtube

Imagine rolling up to the gas station in your Volvo 240 and there is just a jet standing there fueling up

Saw it fly a week ago. My third time. Majestic plane.

Very-low aspect-ratio wings or wing-body planes are difficult or impossible to stall. Even if at ridiculous high angle "A" incidence at silly slow speed, flow doesn't separate from the top, and the trailing edge controls still have strong smooth flow. They will "mush" all the way down if kept like that with insufficient power, but they don't depart from controlled flight. As well, at high "A" they get extra lift at low speeds. Historically, some very-low aspect-ratio planes have used this for super-slow landings, but only if the landing gear allows it to have enough "A" on the ground. (Up to 30°). The Arup & the derivatives including the Vought V-173, the Nemeth "parachute plane", the Eshelman commonly known as the "flying flounder". The 1990s Wainfan "Facetmobile" (sharp delta) would not stall, could fly much slower than it could land because the landing gear didn't allow it enough "A" on the ground.

Very interesting plane indeed. i have a figure on my side of a Draken III with Lildrakens on the wings.

i have been in the air intake of a finish draken

hehe, Found and explained talking about funny angry Swedish Dorito hehehe 🇸🇪

10:59 *That's the "EMERGENCY HELMET" used in the opening sequence aboard the Nostromo from ALIEN.*

I could smell the war thunder sponsorship as soon as I saw the video

my man clearly had a good day making this lol

Great video! Looking forward to next about Swedish amazing Cold War exports.

Sweden didn’t allow Germany to pass through Swedish territory during the invasion. However, transit of unarmed soldiers, medical supplies and military equipment was granted 1,5 months later about 2 weeks after Norway had surrendered, as Germany threatened to forcibly do so anyway if denied. A year later when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Sweden gave Germany unrestricted permission to move troops from Norway to Finland through Swedish territory. Finland had lost about 10% of its territory in the “Winter war” during the winter of 1939/40, and allied itself with Germany in 1941 in an attempt to take back the lost territory. Still, there’s no doubt that Sweden chose to sell out Norway in fear of being invaded by Germany, so even if factual inaccurate it’s a common sentiment that Sweden actively assisted Germany.