How Sweden made the best fighter jet - Saab 35 Draken
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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. ✌️
We could ad that the Koenigsegg factory is at the old F10 area.
No, last Draken flight at F 10 was in december 1998! You are thinking of 1 div that was shut down and re-armed with Viggen. They flew until F 10 was closed. They had the ghost that later Koeningsegg stole. Koeningsegg is located at 1 div old hangars.
@@joakimahlgren5965Dont think Koenigsegg "stole" it though.
@@pederfallbom They didn't czcams.com/video/8HgE3_otEhw/video.htmlsi=MYUyYXHpMta20hmf
the ghost was not their logo. they used to land and take off in the dark so the people could only hear them, so they started to refer them as ghosts. since Koenigsegg has a factory where the ghosts operated, they started to use the ghost symbol only on the cars that are made in that place
"and its sequel, ww2 Electric Bugaloo"
That shit made my day LOL
That was funny as fuck. Wanted to mention this in the comment section. So casual lol.
captain?
Like imagine trying to outsmart a jet by being slow and he just sits behind you wondering what you are doing xD
*BRUH......*
just imagine more
Finally, Sweden mentioned!!! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🔥🔥🔥
gay mentioned
DRINK!!
Jag vill leva jag vill dö i nooooordennnnnnn
@@3drc172 im not gay :d
@@Dennanby Finnish standards you are
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.
Austria had the J-29 Tunnan and DeHavilland Vampire before it. It was the first supersonic jet though)
Austria was late to the party but not that late. None of the other nations using the Draken hade retired them at that time. Austria retired them five years after Sweden so that thing about only knowing them from museums sounds strange.
@@skunkjobb Although I read once in an aviation magazine: "Austria displayed their perfectly preserved Draken". This was in 2004
The decision to buy the draakens was hugely controversial at the time, right up there with the fate of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant. Ultimately, the purchase went through and they replaced the Saab 105Ö jets the Austrian Air Force had been flying (the 105 was basically the flight trainer the Swedish Air Force used to train their pilots. Give it a gun and maybe a couple of missile hard points and Felix, Austria…)
The red white red anniversary livery for the Austrian draakens was a hugely popular paints heme for modelbuilders here in the US.
@@Argent_99 They had the missiles quite late actually.
The Draken is really one of the prettiest planes ever created, along with it's modern equivalent, the Grippen
Got that right
Gripen, one P.
Yeah whatever, grip deez@@Stukov961
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.
Yeah Im giving a dislike on this video for that.
Wasn't the allowance granted also after a veiled threat from Germany that If their troops were not allowed passage, that Germany would invade? I'm a little rusty with my WW 2 history regarding Sweden, but I remember them being in a difficult position with Germany and Britain fighting west of them, the threat of Germany invading from the south, and Finland having their hands full with the Russians on their east. Sweden had to be very nervous during WW2
@@Pepsiphopia sadly these videos are riddled with errors. Especially dates and units.
eller så var det den "officiella" versionen
@@MartinMoberg Vad är det du försöker antyda?
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.
Tackar, nu behövde inte jag skriva det :P
just like the Fighting Falcon is nicknamed the Viper, we should nickname the Draken Draken.
JAG ÄR FRÅN FINLAND OCH JAG TALAR SVENSKA FINLAND HADDE DRAKEN
I chose the “Dragon” meaning because it is a beast of a plane.
Draken is also the Swedish name for the males of the Mallard, a species of duck. This would fit with the name of the successor the Saab Viggen as Vigg is the Swedish name of the Tufted Duck.
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
Yeah
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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.
I’ve been in many draken simulator cockpits. (Finnish aviation museum in Helsinki, Finnish Air Force museum in tikkakoski and the Finnish war museum in Suomen linna) haven’t been in an actual plane and definetly not an operable one
i believe everything you say, espacially with that profile picture 🤡
@@eS._Te admitting you're a clown is the first step in getting the help you need, good on you.
The Swedes did not let Hitler pass through to invade Norway, Hitler did so through over running neutral Denmark.
Ehm, yes we did. Both Hitler and sweden knew that if Norway wasnt taken by the axis, then the allies would have invaded to later seize swedish steel and cut of that supply for germany. And that would seriously hurt swedens economy...
@@adamhlali8106 And i mean what could we do? end up like Denmark and Norway? we kind of didn't have a choice in the end. Beside we did help both side one way or the other
@@adamhlali8106 Which piece of Swedish territory did Hitler cross. I have looked at the campaign in Norway and it was unnecessary to do so and iI can't see when and where it happened.
Denmark wasn’t neutral.
@@henrikerdland578 WRONG - you completely ignoramus - just when did it declare war on Germany and which alliance was it in from 1940?
IT WAS NEUTRAL SINCE THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. LIKE SWEDEN AND NORWAY
@3:01 "Due to the size of its territory" - Shows a Norwegian valley.
Yes. 🇸🇪
Well..its part of sweden untill 1901... so.. he never sad what year it was.
We're the same country, brothers in blood
@@matsv201 *1905. And also, not really. The Swedish Norwegian union mostly consisted of a foreign policy and monarch union, Norway was mostly autonomous in everything else. Although they were forced to amend their constitution of 1814 to make the union legal in 1815.
@@Anonymous-zu7dh it was also infrastructure and trade. That mattered alot for the railways in the north.
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 😇
True.
But.... Bizarrely in the 60's up to the 80's when it comes to Volvo cars this marque had the worst reputation of all for underpowered engines on most of it's models.
Actually, the two stroke engines that SAAB cars won several rallies during the 1960:th was German (I think). And the V4 engine they continue to do rally with was Ford V4 engines. There was even a Ford advert that said the Ford Tanus had a SAAB engine 🙂 SAAB 99 then had a UK Triumph engine, 1.7 l and 1.85 l. That was later replaces by SAAB own 2.0 l engine. That basically had followed SAAB to the end. That engine was the one that had a "to small" turbo, so it over charged. Which they fixed with a pressure regulated ventilation. That also won SAAB lots of Rally wins.
But yes, the air planes had RR engines made by Volvo. 🙂
The jet that really put Saab on the world stage!
I would argue SAAB J29 already had done it by beeing the fastest non-exprimental airplane in the late 40's and early 50's.
J32 was one if not the first all weather jet.
the we also had the Rocket escape chair which was designed for the J21/J21R.
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
I think what he meant was Sweden allowed German soldiers to pass through to invade Russia. Which did happen. He just said the wrong country.
@@alexzelinski5538 Still sloppy.
@@alexzelinski5538 People seem to forget that Sweden was NOT neutral regarding the conflict between Finland and Russia.
@@MerecirLess ”neutral”, more ”playing both sides”, no?
@@Suppagappa Incorrect , your have to look up Non-belligerent
The J-35 is definantly the best first go to pick in Ace Combat Zero.
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Early thought I had a fun arcade flight game, but later I ended up having the best Bromance aeroplane game ever.
Was expecting to find this comment! "It's time to stop the Demon Lord."
I usually went with the Mig 21, ever since I first played Battlefield Vietnam (well before I'd even heard of Ace Combat), it's been my favorite Jet. I should try playing through again with the J-35 sometime, see how far I can get before needing to upgrade.
Ace combat reference organizations called all world with no boundaries good comment of ace combat fan.
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
Wait this is 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
@@PilotekzyWT I have a mental image of the cartoon character Popeye when big firearms are mentioned.
Before modern fly by wire maneuvering a fighter jet could be a lot tougher than you would have thought. Modern servos and later electronic fly by wire has changed that a lot.
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.
Lilldraken definitely had no afterburner.
@@acajutla When you look at the Dates that the F-100 Super-Sabre broke Mach 1, and the date the Draken broke Mach 2.... Well, to say that the US was a WAY behind would be a Scottish Understatement. Note, too, that the Draken broke Mach 1 on it's First Flight, IN A CLIMB. It also, was really close to being 'stealthy', head-on. Had Radar-reflective shapes been better understood then, it could've been a very sneaky plane indeed. IMHO, it's step-grandchild is the F-16XL. General Dynamics literally took a J-35 into a wind-tunnel, then 'tweaked' the double-delta to provide the Wing for the XL, nearly 4 decades after SAAB made the early 'Adam' J-35's.
@@ericbrammer2245 I belive you but at the same time not
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!
Me too i have a similar event like you when i was still in a kindergarten my first fighter jet i know is mig29 i like it when i see it first time i even bought a mig29 model to my home at that time i thought mig29 was from america when i know it was from soveit at that moment i was like "NO no no no no it can't be mig29 is from soviet nooooo!"😂😂😂
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.
The Viggen had a ground following radar that allowed for operation at very low heights. If I remember correctly there were both one going straight down and one at an angle forward. A coworker had been a fighter pilot starting with the Saab J 29 Tunnan and than flying the J 32 Lansen and J 35 Draken. He finally got a chance to ride in the Saab 37 Viggen. He said that setting the plane to follow the ground following radar was a jarring experience as it would bounce around violently when flown at really low height.
Another coworker lost her dad when he crashed his Viggen into an ice covered lake.
They did a lot of really low height training but they also had to pay a price in deaths as when flying at 10 to 20 meters a crash happens so fast you never have a chance to even reach for the emergency eject. From what I've heard the low height fighter training has been eased off a lot now.
@@blahorgaslisk7763 Viggen had a early navigation system similar to a modern GPS system that showed where the plane where on a moving map with altitude of obstacles and that helped with the low altitude flying. The ground radar was part of that in that it kept track of the planes actual speed relative to the ground to counter the wind drift.
12:50
Swedish pilots: That was fun; same time next week?
Soviets: Sure comrades but don't pull that crazy move again
fr comrade
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.
They also had a tendency to fly low, at least over the sea. I remember being in the archipelago outside Stockholm when a squad of Draken passed us a high speed and low height. The sound was certainly something that you could feel in your chest. As I remember it the were supersonic as I remember seeing them pass us before I heard the sound. Now it might have been that we passed through a military training ground. These were not permanently banned but they announced training in the news on radio to keep people from sailing into areas where they would be firing live munition. Sometimes you would see airplanes towing targets for anti aircraft fire practice.
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 cars came second. When WW2 was over, SAAB wanted to branch out.
The star of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and Infinity.
70 years of Saab 35 Draken.
Eyup players choice of which plane you want to fly ustio mercenary like cipher.
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.
Yes, simple and basic but extremely good. Problem is that you'll lose out on sales because you don't really got any new mediocre technology to seduce your customer with.
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.
It reached supersonic speeds several times in descent though.
Still not really a supersonic jet. Or at least as "supersonic" as the Mig 15, F-86...
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.
With the wind tunnel models tested at the FFA wind tunnel plus the scale prototype Lilldraken, there was nothing accidental about the performance and the shape wasn't because it looked cool. They knew very well what to expect before it flew.
Soviets: Make a flying truck that can land upside down and survive, but it flies like shit and breaks down randomly.
Americans: Make a super overengineered aluminum can that flies like an angel but needs a week-long pedicure between each flight and dies if it sees a leaf on the runway.
Swedes: Make a practical aircraft that just works. Easy to maintain and operate by conscripts. Slap on some super high-tech gadgets that no one else will use in 30 years.
(Draken had an analog Data-link system. It looked like a normal clock, but it could receive analog radio signals and display coded messages to the pilot)
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
Yes there was a high risk that USSR would have taken an even stronger approach to Finland than they already did and forced them into the Warsaw pact but Sweden already had 130 years of neutrality then as well.
There were people advocating for both sides but the neutrality advocates won out, but there was always a close collaboration on intelligence with the British and US during the Cold War.
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.
Unique? No
@@M3rl1n177 Are you trying to redefine words?
@@M3rl1n177 Nick didn't give a date, but this jet was flying in the mid-1950s. It was the first supersonic jet in Europe. Nick said the Me-262 was supersonic, but it wasn't. It was just about 100 miles an hour faster than Allied fighters. While in combat that speed dropped enough that many were shot down.
If you are talking about the tank, it was the one that was produced and used in the field. Other turret less tanks were prototypes or concepts and never built in numbers like the S tanks.
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!
Maybe with a tailwind
And apparently the Lilldraken as well.
One wonders where they get all this. It can't all be misunderstandings.
@@robertdragoff6909speed of sound is relative to the media
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 CZcams 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😂😂😂
Huh?
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.
The Draken double delta characteristics also paved the way for the development of Concorde and the Space Shuttle...
@@-NiEr Not to mention the Lockheed M3+ Blackbird series.
@@maximilliancunningham6091 True...
- And saved by Saab Viggens! 😎
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This was before Computer assisted design... Engineers had to draw this and hope It would be great in the wind tunnel.
Please wiki: "Slide rule" - The engineers did not just guess... Even NASA still relied on these when preparing for the Moon landings.
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...
It`s actually Both as a Kid in Sweden we all knew it as the Dragon
@@Karl-Benny There is stil a difference between a given name and what people call it.
By that logic the correct name for JAS39 could be "The Claw" or "Arrested"...wouldn't that be fun ;)
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.
Sweden had the 4:th largest airforce in the world, during the cold war! Today it's reduced to 1/3 of what it used to be...
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.
I saw it today flygdagen
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.
Draken III... haven't heard that name in a while. Cool jet mode with an actual IRL basis, cute jackal mech head, easily my favorite among the "modern" VF designs.
i have been in the air intake of a finish draken
hehe, Found and explained talking about funny angry Swedish Dorito hehehe 🇸🇪
Huh?
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*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.
There is however, one special transport of 350 German demolition engineers, equipped with military graded explosives, under the disguise to be medical personnel for the severely exposed axis forces close to the Swedish border near Narvik. Their task was in reality to demolish the specialized iron ore harbour installation in Narvik, to ensure that the allies couldn't use it for their own purpose. Ten years after the demolition the installation was fully in use agan, being rebuilt.