It is designed to start and land from our country roads and highways. As our doctrine was that in case of Russian aggression and war our airfields would be the first targets so we relocate our airforce out into our vast forests and use most big roads as runways.
@@mathiasandersson4153 we in the eastern block operated military jets from fotorways too, but our (Czechoslovakia) MiG-21s And Su-17 weren't nearly as STOL as the mighty Viggen.
What everyone seems to be missing in the comments about this video is - the amazing thing is, planes should always take off in to the wind and land in to the wind....this guy has so much thrust he just does whatever the hell he wants!
@John C. that sounds about right, I think aircraft with the canards tend to have a slightly lower top speed due to extra drag at the cost of increased manueverability at high aoa. Don't know what the big stink is today about short field capabliity these days?
Had the pleasure of seeing an airshow with Viggen when I first joined the Swedish Army in the 80's, while the plane was still in service. I have of course seen displays with Gripen later, and while the latter is obviously a more modern aircraft, damn the Viggen was a BEAST. Absolute power. Weird how the Swedish AF went from muscular and masculine Viggen direct to the nimble and elegant Gripen. It's like going from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Scarlett Johansson.
I've seen the AJ37 Viggen and JAS 39 Gripen train together back in the late 90's. Yoy could easily tell them apart from 10 km away. Just by their sound. Viggen puts a smile on your face even at fairly close range with it's brutal roar. The Gripen makes an awful screeching noice that just makes you want to put earplugs in, even from 2km away. Anyways, the Viggen did a circular turn while the Gripen made a figure 8 inside it's radius. It was beautiful to see.
Add a public road as the airstrip, with tall pine trees just meters away from the wing tips, full service as in refueling, new weapons and new intel for the driver(sic!) out in the woods, and all of the ground service supplied by drafted personell in an ultra flat organization with an absolute minimum of brass. Sure was something to be proud of then, back in the days.
Pilot lands on his street, "Honey, I forgot my work keys for the office", takes off again. Jeez that was short. You could hide those aircraft and support them all over the world.
@@ZFilms11 "1985 - introduction of the data link (encrypted communication between up to 4 fighters and ground control), which allowed passive firings about a decade before any other country sported such system"
I was in the military and served the swedish air forces as a 1:th technichian to Saab JA 37 Viggen. Prepared the fighter in the morning, then 4 clearance during each day, before take off. I must say, The Viggen fighter is a beast, so powerful but still smooth. I miss those days a lot!
Remeber, one time, at the airfield of Gällivare when doing some skydiving, before an airshow the next day. Was packing my chute, and all of a sudden the hair of my neck rose. I turned 180 degrees, and there it was- The mighty Viggen, A low fly by with reheater swoshing over our heads, many, many kn/h that it would do the following day on the actual airshow. I actually did some somersaults. That engine roar!
@@stefanpersson6475 it still is, designed to kill. In Finland be use the term Hävittäjä! It means destroyer and eliminator in one word! It's a superlative. Viggen. Real badass HÄVITTÄJÄ!
One of my favorite cold war fighters. While other nations spent all their resources into making their fighters faster and more maneuverable with bigger radars and missiles, the Viggen had survivability on the ground baked into the airframe as a core concept just as much the F-16 had dogfighting baked into the design. With the prevalence of missile threats to air bases, even today, militaries could learn a lot from the concept of the Viggen.
SAAB marketing coping and seething right now. Long way of saying that it was worse than other aircraft lmao "surv is baked into it's core" lmao listen to yourself talk holy shit you sound like an A-10 coper
When your Airforce can in the Pine trees, when their Jets are manoevrable like Cars... You are doing something right. You are doing a bang-up Job! Well done Sweden.
A beast. A section of these aircraft flying low would rattle your teeth. Guess that's what happen when you take a big afterburner and slap a cockpit on to it.
@@joakimwohlfeil beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess. From certain angles, to me, in comparison, the Draken looks like a flat triangle with a tail. But again, at different angles I can understand how different people would fall in love with it.👍
I'm here because of dcs world new module coming out from leatherneck sims. Never even heard of the ajs37 till a few months ago but damn it is pretty slick
The Viggen and phantom have to be my two favorite aircraft, especially from this era. High speed down on the deck is just a thrill to see. binge watching right now while dcs downloads and installs!
Me again. Can't get enough of this vid! High sink touch down. What, a sub 530'(foot) landing roll out. Turns itself around & executes a sub 470'(foot) take off roll! Talk about a clear air departure that the "junior service service" (U.S.) can't pull off. 😮😲😆👍👍
Everyone else: line up at one end of the runway to have as much space as possible for safety reasons... Swedish Viggen: just turn around in the middle and use the shortest part of the runway...
I used to have a diecast little matchbox model of this jet. Always thought it was a cool looking plane. Not every fighter of note in the world is American. I heard one of these achieved lock on an SR71 Blackbird
They also saved one. It had engine trouble over the Baltic and a couple of Viggen escorted it and protected it from being forced down behind the iron curtain. The pilots got some medals last year I think it was when it was declassified and all the pilots could meet after more than 30 years.
Thanks for the upload! According to this movie, there was a mere 187-195 meters takeoff length!! 2 days ago I saw this gem at the 2021 Airshow in Kecskemét - also with this awesome manovre. Really unbelievable to see this in live, too - It took approx 9 seconds to take all wheels off (in calm, windstill weather) from releasing the brakes.
That was insane! Never seen a jet do that before. Can you imagine how cheap aircraft carries would be if they could all do this? No more cats, no more arresting gears. You might even be able to eliminate the need for angled decks or jump ramps. Straight decks would rule again. Didn't Saab use a sterling engine for subs that could take out our carriers? Lets hope they remain an ally.
Well, as a swedish dude I'll just confirm that we wouldn't be a threat even if we for some unlikely reason started siding with Russia or something. Our military is so small we'd be gone in a week (last I read that is about the time we could feasibly protect ourselves if a larger military power attacked). Viggen is a freaking sweet plane though, and we can make some nice submarines too, so we've got the design skills at least.
@@nilsbrattgard9586 Oh, good to know. You better watch out 'cause we're comming for you with our mighty czech army of doom! Now that we ordered four (sic!) ah-1s we can crush anyone.
After all, Russia was next door and during the cold war we took that threat serious. If you take USAF minimum flight-levels at wartime, and half them, that was regular flight levels for training. Viggen does not have stealth, but was invisible to radar anyway by flying so low it literally was hiding beneath the terrain.
Always one of my favourites at Farnborough, back in the day. It is a credit to the Swedish Air Force that they kept the Vigen, albeit updated, in service so long.
Wow, I knew this plane was a solid piece of engineering, but this is makes even more amazing. Using the thrust reverser as 'reverse gear' is a unique feature, AFAIK. Why did I have to learn the 3-point-turn in a bloody Peugeot 205, then?! 🤔😁
Que espetáculo de águia voadora esse VIGGEN AJS-37. Que maravilha e honra para o Brasil ter e fabricar em conjunto o novíssimo GRIPEN NG com a Suécia. É exatamente originário desse espetáculo tecnológico da SAAB que Brasil e Suécia se unem para colocar nos ares, definitivamente, o novíssimo GRIPEN NG. Suécia, ownnn! Brasil, ownnn. G R I P E N NG ...
I always loved this aircraft since lad, later on working on this field I haven't seen such a STOL in a jet other than AV8B (not VTOL) I am confident that it is even shorter than that on STOL configuration. Impressive and beautiful plane.
You've gotta love this plane , it's just amazing what it can do !Pretty impressive for late 60's jet . It would make a great carrier jet with that performance . Wales UK.
The performance would most likely be diminished if it were fitted for carrier service... heavier landing gears and such to withstand the stressful environment. Still, an impressive machine!
The landing gears on that plane could take that with no modifikation. They were made to take HARD landings on short roads even between craters after bombings.
I was there in 2012 for the display, and stood about where the photographer stands. I first saw the Viggen do this trick circa 1985, when I was 9 years old. In 2012, when the power of the afterburner hit me in the chest, I screamed of joy. My son, who was four at the time, was more interested in the popcorn though...
Not "just" jets, They make their own submarines, navy, buy leopard2 from Germany and take out almost everything and exchange it whith Their own technology. They make their own smal arms, tank grenades(Carl-Gustaf) and is one of the most technological country in the world when it comes to military technology. And the country has just 10 million people. And if you compensate for the small population, Sweden is the country that export the most military weapon and technology in the world. It's verry impresive!
So much power in such a relatively small package! The power to weight ratio is huge compared to the machines that most of us use in our lives! Crazy cool!
Fun fact: Viggen has a Volvo RM8 turbofan that is basically a Pratt & Whitney JT8D. With an additional afterburner. So I would like to see a pair of RM8s bolted on to a DC-9 and see a takeoff with full afterburn.
Saab. Sob. I had one of these. Little convertible. Loved it. Can’t remember the year. Sold it. Now Saab is into this sweet little number. 3-point turn. Yeah. I used to do those in MY Saab.
@M W Actually it is. Look up the time when a Swedish submarine "sunk" a US aircraft carrier. It was an exercise, but the fact that the sub had been able to get past the carrier's destroyer and cruiser screens without being detected really surprised the Americans.
