The Top FIVE FOREIGN Jets I WISH I Could've FLOWN 

What do you fly?

You insignificant, sad, internet troll - he’s a then and a right now, putting out great content that inspires many people. What have you done, champ?

The 418k subscribers, that’s who….how many do you have?

Spsantander - you violated the number 1 rule on this channel - Don't be a douchebag. And what's a "never has been" anyways? Was your hand shaking in anger when you wrote that? It would behoove you to tune into the mental health minutes on this channel. Get some help

@@ripgfaeat a bag of dicks uncle cw is the 🐐

Just sent an email to Saab about it. I mean "Military Aviation History" channel got to fly it, they have around the same amount of subs so. Fingers crossed att han får flyga världens fränaste plan :)

Failing that Brazil has a few, and not too bad a place to visit, there's even a UK's Empire Test Pilot school, that has a Gripen D in its fleet of student aircraft.

​@@foxpoint-seIf I remember correctly, Justin Bronk from the RUSI also had an opportunity to fly on a Gripen.

Military aircraft contracts don't not rely on PR stunts but strategic alliances and bribes.

And if not, there's a SAAB J35 Draken forward end converted to a full imersion simulator at the museum in Ängelholm that's open to the public, and I think there's an A/J37 and possible also a JAS39A sim of the same type at the aircraft museum at the SAAB airfield in Linköping.😊

I think the Gripen is the perfect fighter jet for Taiwan, but I don't think they'll ever be able to get them due to political reasons.

I hope Thailand goes for Gripen E. US wants to sell The Viper. Starka tilsammans. Från Finland.❤

​@@jussihailaI believe Thailand already has Gripen-E's.

Yeah, pretty amazing such a small country in terms of population/economy etc can produce such a jet. I remember pictures of the Viggen on the motorway in the forest photos from the 80s. Just the camo scheme was awesome too then!

Observers book/guide to Aircraft? I had the same one!

Also is a cheap fighter, but not very popular ... probably because lack of advertising and bribes

the viggen will always be one of if not the best looking jets of all time

@@SgtSteel1 yeah, illustrated guide to modern fighters and attack aircraft by Bill Gunston....I did the mistake to lend it to a friendin the 90s....lost forever:-(

That's something like real life Hindi movie Fighter! Edit: Is she Deepika Padukone? :)

@@jovana-che lol well Deepika flies a Helicopter in that movie so no lol

One of my fellow fighter pilots - a senior colleague at Eglin AFB - once said, "Looking good is a full-time job."

It also allows you to get some ridiculous angles for a gunshot or a fox-2.

the Tornado is very cool (specially the long nose F3) but as you say a BFM machine not so much.. i renember how hard i laughted when i saw this series about Italian fighter pilots (Aguila is called) who flew F-104s and Tornado IDS and one girl asks them "whats a Tornado" and one of them says "renember Top Gun? its the same jet"

admittedly, I would have rather the Brits and Germans had defer'd to the french during the eurofighter project. politics around the development project aside I prefer the Rafale over the Typhoon and in my eyes the squall, tranche for tranche is both more capable than the Typhoon with a superior ECM suite and cheaper. in the long run I think alot of mistakes made (especally by the british government) would have been avoided if from the get go they had the rafale... case and point the delays to the queen liz and buggerlugs (prince of wales) due to arguments over making them STOVL or CATTRAP carriers. If the UK had Squalls leading up to the laying down of the hulls I think they would have been catapult carriers. that would have given Britain more options (such as leasing or purchasing Rafale Ms or F/A18Es to fly off the carriers) while waiting for the Lightnings to be built rather than having 2 carriers with nothing to fly off them for what? 5 years?

@@Pale_Nomad That isn't how the QE class history went though. They were designed from the outset for F-35 and were always intended for it. The carriers entered service in 2017, and got their jets in 2018, so there was no real delay in practical terms. Going for F/A-18s or Rafale Ms would have just meant getting a previous gen fighter in very small numbers for great expense and no real benefit in the end since F-35 was coming along very soon regardless. There was never a plan to operate older gen jets in the carrier force.

@@Pale_Nomad Have you ever worked with the French on an aerospace project? I can tell you from personal experience that they are a complete nightmare. On every tiny detail, it is 'my way or the highway' with them. The UK has made a lot of money out F35, between 15% and 20% of every F35 is made in the UK, depending on the variant. There probably wouldn't be the engineering capability in the UK to do Tempest, if the UK had chosen Rafale. The Italians are excellent partners, we rated them the best of the three countries when it came to engineering and the Japanese are ahead of the USA in some sensor technologies. So Tempest is off to a good start and well ahead of the Franco/Spanish/German 6th generation equivalent. The argument about the launch method for the carriers is very complex and was, no doubt, done to death by the OR groups. I am not sure that it would have been any better waiting five years for the USN to sort out EMALS, than for F35Bs. In the February report on Gerald R Ford it was noted that the only thing that was keeping EMALS operational was 24/7 engineering support from continental USA.

@@Retrosicotte But they could have been F-35C

He missed the chance of flying the Gnat in the "the navy" and doing carrier landings in the S.S.ESSESS

Same for me, love the Draken.

@@bobthebomb1596 I used to serve in AA forces in the Finnish army and the air force squadron nearby had Drakens back then before we switched to F/A-18's and those damn pilots used to fly just over our barracks during the night and those things were loud as hell. Honestly I hope those pilots stepped on Legos. 😄

The smaller prototype (Saab 210) they built first is even more beautiful!

There is a Draken airframe and cockpit built into a max immersion simulator at Ängelholms Flygvapenmuseum that's open to the public for a separate booking fee. The museum is located around 1.5h drive North along the E6 highway from Copenhagen international airport. You can also get there by train to Ängelholm city (trains heading from Denmark towards Göteborg and Oslo stops at the Kastrup airport terminal and Ängelholm city, and from Ängelholm, there is busses every 30 minutes in summer time, everyb60 minutes in winter, the city also has a very good railroad museum and good quality restaurants for every preference within 15min walk from the train station.

It be even prettier if didn’t have the fuel thing sticking out.

@@bobbyraejohnson nah, thats the thing you see first when you see later Mirage F1/2000 ... it doesnt disturb Aerodynamics that great and dont need a (heavy) mechanic to drop in or out... so...

Hah! That 6 meteor 2 ASRAAM version probably has the munitions costing more than the jet! 😂 That's the problem with our missiles at the moment, they are just too expensive to keep in production in a war.

What you think if it wasn't for using US engines that the entire world would be flying Gripens or something? Gripen simps are really something else.

I too love the Rafale!

no A10 ?

​@@lamsior he's talking about jets, not machine gun with wings 😂 (i love the A10 too)

As an Air Cadet (in the '80s) I got to sit in the cockpit of a Tornado at RAF Brüggen (height of the Cold War) and had a flight in the base simulator. Happy days!

Su27 might be but Su30SM and Su35 are digital as fuck lmao

Biggest travesty ever.

@@adambydand1214 Was going to cost almost double to develop as what the Strike Eagle cost.

Later variants were pretty nimble by third-gen standards. Obviously not going to go nose pointing with a Hornet, but they certainly wouldn’t be helpless in BFM in their era.

you inverse the rafale and the eurofighter

isnt rafale and eurofighter pretty similar? with rafale being less of an airsuperiority jet but more versatile

@@albinfiskare and more beautifull

As a Brit, I agree: the Typhoon and Gripen excel at different jobs. They're not the same at all. As an all round practical war fighting machine for an air force like Sweden's or Ukraine's and operating in such close proximity to the Russia with the war fighting philosophy and organisation of these countries, the Gripen is pretty much an unbeatable proposition for short and medium range missions. It's a fantastic and practical war-fighting aircraft with a wonderful electronic warfare suite - some of which will apparently find its way onto the German ECR variant of the Typhoon. And naturally the Gripen is exceptionally cost-effective and simple to operate. The Typhoon is really excellent at what it was originally designed for and in the way that the RAF uses it: QRA and long distance intercept over the sea, with a secondary (and now really pretty good) air-to-ground precision strike role. But it wasn't designed to operate from austere runways or with the shorter turnarounds and lower maintenance staffing requirements that the Gripen delivers.

*Gripen Cheers from Sweden 🍻

Might as well translate it to "Griffin" or "Gryphon" whichever spelling you are into. Since almost no one use the Russian names for the MiG and Sukhois, why use the Swedish name (mutilated by English pronunciation) for the SAABs?

First flying 15 years after the F-16 and being basically all that Sweden works on, you would kind of hope so.

behind the F-15 no doubt

@@AngryAmericano Everyone have own taste ^^

@@AngryAmericano F-15 is such an ugly jet...

@@topkitenaAin’t no way…

@@KristopherMarieas one said before - everyone has different taste. But for me F-15 looks like Lego-plane similar to Foxbat, both look as square as a brick (=almost ugly). My top 3 are F-16s, Flankers and Mirages

RAF isn’t the Royal Navy ?

Lol, you are completely right, I have no idea why I typed that,😂😅😅

Yeah, they are paying more bribes than Boeing does... lol!