While the J 29 Tunnan has the honour of being the first jet fighter exclusively built for that purpose, it is the J 21 the very first jet engine fighter the Flygvapnet operated with, being amongst the very few designs, if not the only one, in being successfully modified as it received ...
J 32AD –A proposed daytime fighter version purposed to replace the J29 Tunnan. It would have been a single seat fighter with four 20 mm guns and a fifth 30 mm gun, all located on the nose. It would have been armed also with rockets and missile but lacking a radar. Never developed ...
The sweptwing J29 Tunnan, which flew in 1948, began equipping Flygvapnet fighter units in 1951; the two-seat, all-weather J32 Lansen flew in 1952 and served in fighter-interceptor units until the mid-1970s; and the strikingly innovative double-delta J35 Draken, when it flew in 1955, ...
The J 21 is, like the J 29 Tunnan, the product of Sweden’s concerns about its own security during WWII, especially in the light of Germany’s invasions of Norway and Denmark in 1940, which were neutral nations by the time. As Sweden considered that its existing air assets wouldn’t be...
(2,120 km/h or 1,320 mph) at high altitude. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration, which gives it excellent aerodynamic performance and stability. The Gripen also features a digital fly-by-wire system, a glass cockpit with three multifunction displays, and a hands-on-...
In the following years SAAB designed and sold several highly succesful military aircraft beginning with the SAABJ29 Tunnanfighter and the SAABJ32 Lansenstrike-bomber. One very important development was the use of electronics in Lansen. Flight electronics would be present in all aircraft within a ...
A single-seat, single-engine interceptor/fighter for all-weather conditions, with low double delta wings, the Saab 35 Draken was developed in order to replace the Saab J29 Tunnan and the Saab J32 Lansen. Its first flight took place in 1955, being amongst the most advanced and remarkable fi...