Denmark –The first country in exporting the Draken, with units being received in 1970. As the original version was the least favoured during the competition for a new Danish fighter, Saab created a new version (J 35XD), based on the J 35F. the structure was strengthened in order to all...
but also due to the success of the Draken and the need for developing a trainer that could train the Flygvapnet pilots for the J 35, moreover when the de Havilland Vampires were not suitable for the task. This
that reside in Kaliningrad, a short distance from its southern border, Sweden has relied on tactical superiority to achieve combat effectiveness, deploying some of the first datalinks and electronic warfare systems in its fighters, starting with the Saab 35 Draken and more recently the 37 Viggen. ...
The Saab Viggen is a single-seat, single-engine fighter with a low double delta wing and with two canards equipped with flaps, intended to replace the Saab J35 Draken. Its first flight took place in 1967. When it entered service in 1971 with theFlygvapnet, the Swedish Air Force, it wa...
In 1979, the Swedish Government began looking for a viable replacement for the again Saab 35 Draken and Saab 37 Viggen. The aircraft had to be capable of Mach 2 and offer good short-field performance, a side-effect of seeing the versatility of the Harrier Hawker in action. ...
Built247 TheSaab JAS 39 Gripen(English: “griffin”) is a light single-engine multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. It was designed to replace the Saab 35 Draken and 37 Viggen in the Swedish Air Force (Flygvapnet). The Gripen has a delta wing and ...
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 and instead 120 Hawker Hunters entered in service, filling the gap between the J 29 Tunnan and the J 35 Draken. ...
decade for SAAB, 329 Viggens were delivered to theSwedishairforce. In 1978 theSwedishgovernment decided that theSwedishairforce needed a new multi-role aircraft to replace Viggen, Draken and the aging Lansen. This was to become a project that would bring SAAB both great aclaim and great ...