I have 100,000 views (from Sweden specifically) on this video. There are 10,000,000 people in Sweden. Ignoring the margin of error for re-watchers: Nearly 1% of Sweden has seen my Viggen video. Hello friends!

@bolnol

2 ай бұрын

Haha that’s cool af hello to my Swedes out there

@dremm_24

2 ай бұрын

Hej från sverige!

@Roxfox

2 ай бұрын

Grymt!

@annikamyren3026

2 ай бұрын

🖐

@CallMeAstro

2 ай бұрын

Hej Hej!

I was taught to recognize Lansen, Draken, Viggen and Gripen, by my dad. He was a mechanic on Draken in the danish airforce (The real F-35)

@lifeofkiran6285

Жыл бұрын

The most awesome comment ive seen.

@TDK1707

Жыл бұрын

Same with my dad - he rearmed the Draken. Also in the danish airforce

@sageg58

Жыл бұрын

F-35 betta

@TheGrace020

Жыл бұрын

@@sageg58 Beta*

@marteop169

Жыл бұрын

The real J35

I did my military service in the swedish airforce. The Viggens would routinely have pine branches and stuff stuck on the weapon pylons when returning from low level missions/training, they REALLY flew low.

@multitimmytiger2

Жыл бұрын

That is actually crazy!

@Recovmlp

Жыл бұрын

If i remember right from a doco. The pilots and ground crew would joke that if they didnt have brances and squirrels under the inlet they werent low enough

@matsv201

Жыл бұрын

@@multitimmytiger2 i was on a camp when I was 10. And one of the other child there had a father that was a viggen pilot. He father came around and started a fire in the top of a pine. And I got to say. Standing under a afterburner a chilly late summer evning is the best space heater ever.... just a bit noicy

@charliekristiansson6975

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather flew that too at a show. And lets be a bit honest, some swedish pilots are a bit crazy (in a good way). My dad when he was young was at one of the airshows and can attest that a Viggen flying really low is LOUD (they flew about 50m or so orev the audience), and the ATC crew apreciated their skills, but that they dont want to see the top of the cocpits when they do flyby.

@PowerslideSWE

Жыл бұрын

@@charliekristiansson6975 We had a few sneaky very fast flybys at Vidsel, they are VERY loud at low level, holy crap.

I always smile while seeing viggens. They remind me of my mom, she served with the airforce Lottas on Gotland between 1982 and 1987 and left when I was on my way. A few years back she had a viggen and Tunnan tattooed on her left shoulder to commemorate her years with the airforce.

@OperatorDrewski

Жыл бұрын

What a cool mom!

@marteop169

Жыл бұрын

I actually live on Gotland lol, and my biggest dream is to become a fighter pilot

@gabrielneves6602

Жыл бұрын

Holly man! Ur mom gotta be awesome!!!!

@soldi_0443

Жыл бұрын

So cool!

@smogdanoff7053

Жыл бұрын

@@marteop169 Same, maybe one day we’ll meet eachother in the skies💪 All the luck to you brother

I flew the Viggen around 600 hrs and I loved it. Super good interface with the pilot and hilarious acceleration. Excellent low speed handling and super steady weapons platform. Minimum allowed altitude for us was 10m over sea and 20m over land. In practice you flew as low as you dared and it was easy.

@miikapaananen1363

Жыл бұрын

I was once paddling with canoe with my wife and suddenly two F-18 flew over us, very low. A great experience.

@christianmagnusson1641

Жыл бұрын

Jag är avis!!!😭

@Norrlandsgrabben

Жыл бұрын

10 meter över havet och 20 meter över land ?! Wow !

@penisman4144

7 ай бұрын

hell yea.

Growling Sidewinder introduced me to Sven, the Swede, hammering away in the engine tirelessly after compressor stalls.

@sarvadpaygude6712

Жыл бұрын

GS is one hell of a legend

@iddan1205

Жыл бұрын

👍🏽 for Sven.

@candle_eatist

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes he gets it going again, and sometimes he doesn't, but he's always trying his best.

Man, your editing has been really superb recently. Such a joy to watch.

@OperatorDrewski

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ABunchOTrees

Жыл бұрын

7:12 I DIED xD

@sharkoftheskies3256

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

The Viggen was actually the first fighterplane to have a computer onboard the jet itself

@thelordofcringe

Жыл бұрын

I mean technically yes, fighterplane, although I'm pretty sure some experimental ww2 stuff had mechanical computers. For example, the v1 or 2 idk which had a mechanical computer autopilot.

@ZETH_27

Жыл бұрын

@@thelordofcringe Many planes mounted machines such as radios and gyroscopes, sure, but non had a full-on computer fully inside the aircraft like the Viggen. Additionally, the V1 and V2 weren't even airplanes, they were munitions.

@Merecir

10 ай бұрын

At a time when Saab made the fastest computers in the world.

@lifeofpvpanden8056

9 ай бұрын

​@@MerecirEricsson

Once upon a time, in Sweden, the minimum allowable height was increased TO 30 meters (100 ft). This was due to a Viggen coming back with some kilometers of telephone wire... 🙂The Viggen was constructed to fly low, the doctrine was fly low. Sweden had the best low flying pilots in the world. Coming back with branches, leaves, pine needles or reed was commonplace. Anyone who have seen how they flew back then never forgets, I won't.

@davidornberg

Жыл бұрын

If we have Viggen for back up planes they will even today be lethal in the right hands!

@Lightning_Mike

Жыл бұрын

@@davidornberg Considering their main enemy, the Soviet/Russian Baltic Fleet barely evolved since the '70s, a group of Viggens could do a whole number on them.

@ZETH_27

Жыл бұрын

@@Lightning_Mike Considering also that Viggens have the computational power to probably* mount modern missiles, they are more than a match for a lot of modern aircraft.

@Lightning_Mike

Жыл бұрын

@@ZETH_27 I was thinking more about the anti-ship variant, the AJS. Still, that thing can mount RBS-15s. _That_ can do a whole number on the Russian fleet.

@alexanderjacobsen7382

7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of my dad, who was a lawyer with the Norwegian Air Force. Had to take on a case where a pilot came back with a metre cut in his F-16 wing, and a mountain village was without electricity for a month 😬

I would say the Viggen was years ahead of it's time, brutally fast and extremely beautiful.

The Viggen is also one of the only planes to intercept a Blackbird. On a routine mission the SR-71 experienced an engine failure with Soviet MIG-25s moving to intercept when it crossed into Swedish airspace. The Viggens intercepted and escorted the Blackbird to more friendly airspace

@sams.3847

Жыл бұрын

It's also the only one to achieve a radar lock on the blackbird right?

@johnathanstupar9617

Жыл бұрын

@@sams.3847 I'm fairly certain that the Blackbird was radar locked plenty of times. The issue wasn't finding it so much as reaching it. The Soviets never had the sufficient Air Defense to reach the Blackbird at 70,000 feet and moving at Mach 3

@Thekilleroftanks

Жыл бұрын

@@johnathanstupar9617 i think you meant to say, they didnt have ANYTHING that could reach the blackbird. someone believed they could take a mig 25, strap even stronger engines to it and sling a modified cruise missile to the bottom and that MIGHT hit a blackbird. with the only hope being the blackbird flying into the missile. and well the mig25 already had weight problems so that went no where.

@scandinavianvisuals

Жыл бұрын

”The” only plane.

@Nails077

Жыл бұрын

@@sams.3847 Plenty of radar locks have been achieved. It would be more accurate to say that it was the only plane to have a confirmed firing solution that could have made a kill if they had fired.

As you've already pointed out, the Viggen was built for a form of guerilla warfare in the air. It's meant to blow past any defense, bomb the target, then get out before anyone knows what had happened. It could, as you've pointed out, land on roads specifically built as mini-airfields and take off at a moment's notice.

@djcoopes7569

Жыл бұрын

the same design philosophy was carried over into the Gripen

@zipp4everyone263

Жыл бұрын

Quite common for the SAF to create weaponplatforms that are aimed at striking fast and hard and scoot away. You can see it in the Stridsvagn 103 for example as well as the fast and nimble Archer platform. The more you read about it the cooler the Swedish military doctrine seems to be imo.

@emossg

Жыл бұрын

@@zipp4everyone263 Ukraine Conflict has also shown that these tactics are highly effective against the enemy Sweden expects to fight. Finland uses similar doctrine

@einar8019

Жыл бұрын

well its main porpuse was actually do sink russian ships, thats why it can carry up to 3 anti ship missiles when most planes of its size and era could cary none

@matsv201

Жыл бұрын

@@zipp4everyone263 str 103 was made ro be hidden in a barn of it absolutly had to. The smaler diesel engine was also shared with a common tractor model at the time. So in a absolute emergancy, just find a tractor and swixh out the engine. Viggen was made ro be hidden in a forest just of a minor road. A list of people think of like a 4 lane highway. No no no.we talking a 2 lane road with a bike lane on each side. And the engine was pretty much right of a dc9, with a few upgrades. You could pretty much take the LP turbin, burner outer casting of the viggen, the swich the rest of the part with a dc9. That just happen to be the main aircraft of swedish national Airline at the time. Then there is CV90 and ambitius asulr boat 90. Using the same V8 diesel engine...that just happen to be the exact same engine as the most popular truck at the time. Archer. Well.. everything from the engine down is just the most popular Volvo dump truck.

I was a flight controller in the Swedish airforce and was tasked to help the pilots down on our various road-bases (in wartime, Sweden abandons all air fields and hide the planes in random locations through our road system that goes around the nation. All our planes are designed to STOL on roads and all major roads are designed to take the pounding of being used as temporary airbases - which takes 20-30 min to relocate to a new position). On my last day of service before I was headed to university - I was taken up in a twin seat SK-37 for almost 40 min. It was so glorious and i was allowed to try to steer it while up in the air for a few minutes.

I can tell you from personal experience that the Viggen makes a very awe inspiring noise if the pilot pushes it down to about 50m of the deck, aiming straight at you, and keeps the throttle, well, not exactly pinned, but probably about as close to as you can on that flight level. It's then followed by the sensation of the water around you lifting up, as your ears start ringing, and a big loud thunderclap as it speeds away (No, not supersonic, but I wouldn't fault you for thinking so if you experienced it). The pilots were very fond of doing this as they passed over us in the amphibious platoons (Stridsbåt 90H). They pop out of cover over land, seemingly between treetops and then absolutely hammer it along the shoreline over our heads in pairs of two's. You quickly learned to duck, hold on, and pop your hearing protection on. The downside for them was that the blue and yellows (war game referee, sort of) accredited us with a few simulated kills, as we had plenty of time to line up the 7.62 belt fed (KSP58B) and fire at them. Although, in fairness, the scoreboard was sort of a bit lopsided, as they mostly just swung by and killed us on their way to other more important targets. The Gripens were more sneaky, and we never got a simulated kill on them. (And not nearly as loud!)

These birds of terror used to shake my windows when they flew over my house back when I was a kid. These things are LOUD on full afterburner. The Gripens I see in my local skies now are sleek and beautiful arrows and as much as they are a completely different story, they are nowhere near as menacing as that big dorito of death looking cold war plane.

@zipp4everyone263

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, can remember the daily tests being done where i grew up, still miss that roaring thundering powerful sound emminating from those birds

Viggen was a beautiful work of art. The JAS 39 Gripen C/D is still in use after the JAS 37 Viggen was taken out of service. Swedish Engineering should not be overlooked or underestimated.

Flight sims translate so perfectly to VR (I think) largely due to the fact there's no disconnect between your movement in-game and your position irl. Playing a standing game, you move with a thumbstick rather than your legs, so immediately that's a level of suspension of disbelief that has to be accepted. That's gone almost completely in a flight sim (and gone completely if you have rudder pedals)

@UWfalcin

Жыл бұрын

It’s just the lack of g-forces just like in simracing

@bro918

Жыл бұрын

The fact that vr sets themselves and the PC specs required to play them are both absurdly expensive don't help either

@MyKillerson

Жыл бұрын

@@bro918 That has absolutely nothing to do with what he was saying

@skull1161

Жыл бұрын

@@MyKillerson Comment was talking about how great VR is, it's only natural to talk about how expensive it is to work properly in DCS. If VR headsets were 20 dollars and the PC build required to run it was another 50. Then everyone would be in VR on DCS.

I grew up 50kilometers from an airbase in the 1980s where they hade a Viggen squadron stationed and i can clearly remeber the sound they made up in the sky. Viggen is a medieval word for lightning and the sound from Viggens could easily be confused with an incomming thunderstorm. That engine has a very distinct soundquality and sounds awsome. Cool simulator and thanks for sharing the video. 👍

@gorham296

Жыл бұрын

F-16?

@fikonfraktare

Жыл бұрын

Once had 6 viggen fly over my house in Stockholm. The window was open and I thought a big passenger jet was about to crash or something 😂

These intro cinematics are just top notch. Loving the DCS content S!

@wifflewaffel

Жыл бұрын

does anyone know the intro song

@mobiemoto

Жыл бұрын

@@wifflewaffel Digital Chaos - ELFL - it has some of the best fuckin vibes this intro

When I was a young boy someone crashed a Viggen not far from where I lived. I will never forget that boom. They are still finding parts at the crash site. There is a museum not far from here with a real Viggen simulator. Great video as always. Thanks for sharing Drew!

I deeply appreciate you making a mark on this aircraft. My grandpa worked at F21 (Luleå) Flygflottilj (Swedish Airforce) He teached he was a leader and he flied like no one flew. Sadly he passed away the day after his birthday In may. I love you grandpa and you will always be my hero and the one person I love the most in this world.

as much as I can't play dcs or afford the planes or anything about it drewski's narrative style still has me hooked to watch his vids now

Top speed of the Viggen: Mach 2.1. Of course, this was at higher altitudes, but reaching 1.8-1.9 wasn't at all unheard of. Service ceiling, 59000 feet, rate of climb 40000 feet per minute. Load-out: 9 hardpoints, max load 7000 pounds, carrying a mix of AMRAAM, Sidewinder, Sky Flash, RB 04, RB 05, RBS 15 and/or ECM pods. From a small, supposedly harmless, nation in the north of Europe who knew that, it was better to develop their own weapons systems than to rely on others and so made things that outclassed most of the rest of the world.

@Doomsday499

Жыл бұрын

The one in-game cannot do 2.1M as it's fitted with worse engines than the JA37 (Commonly referred to as the Jakt-Viggen), we have the AJS37.

As a "Son of a gunfighter" (my father flew F-8 Crusaders), I am also a model builder and have the Viggen and several other Saabs, but one of my first kits was the Draken about 1968-70...which to me is still one of the coolest looking aircraft ever. I appreciate the Viggen as well but the design always looked a little unbalanced. The Gripen however is amazing.

@bjorreb7487

Жыл бұрын

Do you have Saab 29 Tunnan and Saab 32 Lansen too? They where before Draken.

Saw all 3 of the swedish fighter planes, Gripen, Viggen and Draken a few years ago, they sound so amazing, they roar so loud it made my heart leap with excitement and joy.

@martins3993

Жыл бұрын

When i was a kid in the 90's i was in the countryside playing on top of a hill when i heard this deafening roar. I looked up and maybe 80 meters above my head a C130 transport plane flew with four Viggens in a wingtip-V formation on it's sides. The windows on the houses were rattling and i had to cover my ears. I could feel the four viggen engines rumbling in my chest. It was one of the most visceral and affective experiences of my life and i still remember it like it was yesterday. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

@svanstroll

Жыл бұрын

...me and my scout friends were at an annual air show at the nearby F17 airbase in Kallinge, and one of us came carrying two burgers he just bought for him and his girlfriend, when a Viggen suddenly zoomed past VERY low...And he just instinctively protected his ears by pressing the burgers up into them! ;D How we laughed... but if you ever hear that sound you'll realise that you would easily have done the same. its the proper sound of Thor the god of thunder, and an "(åsk)vigg" fittingly means lightning bolt in Swedish.

@jubuttib

Жыл бұрын

Just to note, the Swedes did do more fighter planes than just the Draken, Viggen and Gripen. There were also at least: -Svenska Aero Jaktfalken (1929, biplane fighter, 19 built) -FFVS J 22 (1943, single engine fighter, 198 made) -SAAB 21 and 21R (21 in 1945, push prop fighter, 298 built, 21R in 1950, jet version of the 21, 64 built) -SAAB 29 Tunnan (1951, jet fighter, first swept wing fighter in Europe post WW2, 661 made) -SAAB J 32B Lansen (1956, jet fighter, total of 450 of the 32 series made, including attack and recon variants as well).

@uku4171

Жыл бұрын

Saw them all last year, and it was amazing. I was near the parking area so I felt the exhaust heat and wind when they turned out onto the runway. Personally, the Draken has to be my favourite thanks to its uniqueness. Just beautiful.

The coolest memory I have of the Viggen is when I sat in the classrom in school, 8th grade, and watched out the window I saw a Viggen flying CRAZY slow, just above the rooftops of the houses around. The plane was in a very steep angle and it almost looked like it was hovering for a while. Later I found out the pilot came from the same town as I did and he was just having a look around when he was passing nearby. I didn't know it could actually fly that slow and I doubt it was really something they were allowed to do.

The swedish airforce flew the viggen extremly low and training like it was real war, many pilots died but it sure was an effective way of training and looks cool

@Halibrand

Жыл бұрын

600 Swedish airforce pilots lost their lives during the cold war, kinda crazy when you think about it nowdays.

You pronounced Viggen perfectly! The two AA in Saab is pronounced slightly differently, but your Viggen pronounciation was spot-on.

@anuf4556

Жыл бұрын

are you swedish????

@nj1255

Жыл бұрын

@@anuf4556 Yes.

@oloflarsson7629

Жыл бұрын

Yes, its Gripen that no-one english speaking can pronounce. And sometimes even spell.

@nj1255

Жыл бұрын

@@oloflarsson7629 True. Didn't think of that! They all pronounce it "Grippen", with a soft R.

@xaviermoorman6247

Жыл бұрын

whats the correct way?

In 1986 the American SR-71 Blackbird was closing in on Swedish territory, doing its "Baltic Express" mission, going Mach 2.98 at approx 72000 feet (ca. 22 km). Captain Ulf Johansson hit Mach 2 almost straight up with his J37 Viggen, taking the SR-71 head on. The max altitude for the Viggen was only 59000 feet (ca. 18 km) so reaching this altitude resulted in positive missile lock, simulated missile launch on the SR-71 and flame out on the VIggen. He managed to restart the engine and land safely. At the time the J37 Viggen was the only aircraft in the world able to go mach 2 straight up and the only aircraft to ever get positive missile lock on the SR-71 Blackbird.

During the Viggen days in Sweden, it was not unusual for pilots to get in a bit of trouble for landning with pine needles in the engines etc. That’s how low they flew.

fun fact about the viggen when you have a full tank and put on the stage-3 afterburner you run out of fuel in about 11 minutes, they were also the only planes to have caught up with a blackbird (in '87)

@oceanforth21

Жыл бұрын

The locked up the blackbird, they couldn’t ever catch it, no plane could

@seatroutadventures9492

Жыл бұрын

It was a head on missile lock - and perfect timed :)

@yollmanontherun9074

Жыл бұрын

@@oceanforth21 the one time they did one of the blackbirds engine busted

@Swagman12

Жыл бұрын

having the option to fire and hit counts as catching imo

@Myemnhk

Жыл бұрын

The blackbird had an engine out

Viggen is the only plane that has got à missiler lock on sr71 blackbird

There's been more than one incident where American spy planes got caught by the Russians and had to skedaddle across the Baltic - and all of a sudden two Swedish Viggen were flying alongside the supposedly "unbeatable speed" of the spy plane going "Uh, what's up? You lost?" It happened once in the 70's, and then later with one of the Stealth bombers which, ah, wasn't as stealthy to Swedish radar as they thought.

@rursus8354

Жыл бұрын

Except Sweden really early on had advanced radar technology that operated on variable wavelengths, essentially bypassing the spy plane design with its special angles of construction.

@Poglavnik088

Жыл бұрын

Typical Sr71 pilots

@UltraSuperDuperFreak

Жыл бұрын

Well that "spy plane" also hade mechanical problems mate, it couldn fly at full speed. Also it made a emergency call which the swedes heard, so the two viggens flew up too support it, in order to deter russians from attacking it. abit after the viggens got next to the "spy plane" russian fighter showed up , but did nothing since they didnt wanna hit the swedish fighter that was very close in order to protect it. Two first two viggen was already in the air, so when they hade to land to refuel. Two others joined to keep protecting the US airplane. Atleast that how i recall the story

@ulvschmidt7174

Жыл бұрын

Its absolutly not sr71 speed except that time an sr 71 had enginefailier and got viggen escort

@mrsaizo0000

Жыл бұрын

You are talking about the SR-71 "Black Bird"..

A really refreshing take on the Viggen. I think this video will inspire many sim pilots to tow their Viggen out of the hangar and take it into the skies, or over the treetops where it belongs! Speaking of quirky birds, I'd love to see you do a video on the Harrier. It's weird, in a good way.

As a Swede I can't begin to explain how much pride I take in knowing that my little country makes these awesome fighter jets.

@2punchtwice

Жыл бұрын

They are extremely magnificent works of art.

The Draken and Viggen are two planes i absolutely adore to death, really slick and nice designs whilst also packing a punch. Very very nice airplanes indeed.

@svanstroll

Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear appreciation for our Swedish aviation engineering. :) ... I just came to think about why not other fighter planes have been named after dragons, it seems like such an obvious choice of name for an impressive flying thing inflicting fire and destruction...

Hell yea, its my favourite jet in dcs! The viggen got me into dcs when it released all those years ago back in 2017. I remember watching devildoggamer and jives legendary "why I like the viggen" video Fun fact about the viggen. It was the very first fighter to have a digital onboard central computer. There's some awesome documentation about the development process behind the CK 37, as it was so far ahead of everything else besides the apollo guidance computer. Also the green "SPAK" light in the left of the cockpit is a hybrid fly by wire system similar to the one in the f15. Insane how advanced this plane was :D

I was thinking that the Viggen is neglected by the KZread community and you brought me exactly what I thought was missing... Love and admiration for one of the most fun modules in DCS.

@AdamWalkLikeSuicide

Жыл бұрын

P.S I can't believe that you actually saw a missile though that site, it's pure white all the time for me except trees are sometimes less white.

@er00ic

Жыл бұрын

@@AdamWalkLikeSuicide You know you can adjust the contrast and brightness of the missile camera, right?

@AdamWalkLikeSuicide

Жыл бұрын

I hardly use the mavs in the Viggen, I love doing bombing runs.

@Lightning_Mike

Жыл бұрын

@@er00ic Yeah, just turn the contrast right up and then play with the brightness. It gets surprisingly clear.

This plane exemplifies "once driven, forever smitten".

most underrated plane imo

As a kid I always loved the Viggen and Draken. I've also had the pleasure to see them here in the UK at airshows. To fly it in DCS is a hoot! The Swedes are just great at making stuff, and lovely people too. We visit frequently. ❤

I grew up in a place in Sweden where Viggens always practiced! It was just a part of life they could suddenly pop up close to the trees (not really but very low) and when very low and fsst the sound comes later so it's a certain experience when sound comes a second later. You should know that during the cold war 600 swedish pilots died.

@hanneseng-johnsson3251

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but most of the pilots who died during the cold war were j29 students because for some reason we didn't build any trainers So students just kinda had to fly by themselves without any real experience

@Norrlandsgrabben

Жыл бұрын

Var i Sverige växte du upp om jag får fråga ? Är själv från Luleå så man både ser och hör plan här titt som tätt då F21 inte är så långt ifrån där jag bor.

@hanneseng-johnsson3251

Жыл бұрын

@@Norrlandsgrabben wow är du den riktiga Snusmumriken?

@Norrlandsgrabben

Жыл бұрын

​@@hanneseng-johnsson3251 Det kan du ge dig tusan på !

Nice job brother, Viggen is a lot of fun

I miss the days when you could feel the afterburner of the Viggen shaking the ground. Gripen is a fine fighter jet and better suited to BVR combat of course. But the Viggen was brutal, menacing, scary and awesome. It's like comparing a Dodge Charger to a 911. The Dodge may be heavy, slower turning and a bit crude. But man, the sound. And the power. Happy flying.

This is hands down my most favorite jet to fly in DCS! So happy to see you check it out! I use it all the time for SEAD

@djcoopes7569

Жыл бұрын

Suppression of Enemy Air Defence systems

i've always loved your intro in your mostly-raw gameplay vids. I also love your narrative style in video-essay-style video. I got all of that in this video! Easily one of my favorite videos from you. Thank you!

I love how much joy Drew has. It doesn't matter if he's dropping drag bombs or taking off. Drew is just happy.

My grandfather was an airplane mechanic in the Swedish Air Force for most of his life and Viggen was the last plane he worked on. He also worked on Draken and the hilarious looking Tunnan "the barrel". You can actually see alot of the Swedish SAAB planes on display along the E4 highway outside of Linköping. It's really cool!

@emiliskog

Жыл бұрын

yup, there's a lansen and a tunnan in one spot(58°25'38.2"N 15°30'14.5"E), a sk60(saab 105) and sk50(saab safir) in another(58°26'17.3"N 15°34'29.6"E) and a draken and viggen in a third(58°26'44.7"N 15°43'40.8"E) oh and apparently also a saab 340 (58°25'56.3"N 15°40'32.1"E) (coordinates for ease of finding)

This editing is top tier! Loving your format for your recent videos.

SAF pilots used to train as if it was war. Made them have the world's highest loss rate while not being at war.

Connection time out always happens when you line up on your target 100% of the time 🤣🤣🤣

I’m disappointed you didn’t mention how much the wallpaper theme for the Viggen ABSOLUTELY SLAPS

i love the Viggen; it's awesome looking and gets the job done; like a swedish A-10

Yes, VIGGEN, Sverige för alltid

"one thats fast - one thats deadly - one thats a DORITO" - Almost died laughing lol

My favorite part about the Viggen is it's engine; straight from a regular airliner jet, but tooled up for military use with an afterburner! of course that thing would produce SILLY amounts of thrust

@tomas7158

Жыл бұрын

Im remember reading some usaf said rediculus. And they didnt like they played with the BB. Fun fact. Gripen A lost allmost every time in a dogfight against Viggen. Cheers.

@jubuttib

Жыл бұрын

That airliner turbofan engine was also taken and modified from the turbojet on the A-6 and A-4 jets. They got a lot of mileage out of that basic design. =)

If I remember the Viggen had radar lock on the SR-71 (Blackbird) multiple times during it flight.

This is just a tip from a viggen pilot hear with 3 years of experience and being a swede. ALWAYS jettison your racks and x tank when it's at 100%. You will notice an significant increase of acceleration

Thank you for putting in the snippets of IRL! Always enjoy those, I've been racking my brain of one of your older vids that had snippets of IRL sam stations in the cold war.

As a swede, i grant thee a 10/10 on the pronunciation of Viggen!

Drew, you're a badass when it comes to showing us games we never seen. This is awesome. Never played this.

@bradcarpenter1881

Жыл бұрын

Check out growling sidewinder's channel for regular daily DCS content. One of the best

@undissatisfied1557

Жыл бұрын

@@bradcarpenter1881 and ralfidude! Excellent videos

@PappaBear_yt

Жыл бұрын

Also, Tricky Tricker has some of the best short tutorials along with Ralfidude!

@bird.9346

Жыл бұрын

@@bradcarpenter1881 His channel is mostly repetitive dogfights with unofficial mods at this point

@skull1161

Жыл бұрын

@@bird.9346 yeah I wish he would play more multiplayer where he isn't setting up each dogfight, his past 50 videos have felt really repetitive. Seeing someone who is as experienced in DCS as him have to fly against random people in random scenarios would be really cool.

Grew up hearing these things above my town. Whole house was shaking. Loved it.

@mattiasdahlstrom2024

Жыл бұрын

They caused my mothers kanelbullar dough to deflate

Your style of exposition is fantastic. These videos lately have made me really appreciate that.

The editing in this video, specifically the beginning, is absolutely amazing Drew. Good job mate.

I've never heard someone call the Viggen a Dorito, and now, I will forever see a Dorito that can fly.

@djcoopes7569

Жыл бұрын

F104 would like to chat

@semiedgv

Жыл бұрын

@@djcoopes7569 Literally any Mirage or Draken lmao

@tuna_6548

Жыл бұрын

IKEA Dorito is a common name for it

@djcoopes7569

Жыл бұрын

@@semiedgv sorry i meant the F-102 Dorito

@jubuttib

Жыл бұрын

@@tuna_6548 Yup, the Swedish branch of the common or garden Danger Dorito family. =)

Thing I am stoked for are the Scandinavia map + SK-60 and Drachen mods. Being able to run some proper swedish defense campaigns with a solid plane set will be sick

@TheMack

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! That would be my childhood dream!

@themigmadmarine

Жыл бұрын

The thing that has long kinda bugged me with DCS is the scatter shot nature of what gets made, so all the above could make for a fantastic "Il-2 Great Battles" esque package.

One of my favorite Airframes in DCS and probably the one I have my most flight hours in followed by the A-10, F-16 and JF-17.

The first military aircraft I ever saw in real life was the Saab Viggen. My dad gave me a book in 2009 (I was 3) and I looked (not read it). My favourites were the SU 27, Saab Viggen, Super Etendard (modernisé) and the F-86 Sabre. It was out of active service but I always maintained it as my first favourite aircraft ever. Aparently, (according to my parents) I saw the aircraft (still in service) at a Swedish Airshow in 2007 (I was 1 year old and it was demilitarized just 4.5 months later). The only thing I remember is screaming my head off and a dark 'arrow' taking off. It was surreal. Thanks soo much Drewski for helping me to remember my favourite aircraft :)

Good Video, but I was Expecting more in the sense of what you usually do when making DCS videos.. Would you consider doing a regular CAS and/or CAP video in this aircraft?

I definitely love this jet! The video was interesting. It was much less a gameplay video so much as a love letter to the viggen and to flight simulation, can't say I blame you I love that thing!

This strike bird definately requires a different mindset from the others, even the modern multirole when performing A2G. You have to take the time to learn the ins and outs of her nav system to get where you need to be to put weapons on target. The learning curve is front loaded though, so once you get that down, and you start to be effective, it's an absolute blast to fly.

This is an amazing jet to fly in DCS low and fast. One of my all time favourite aircraft in any flight simulator.

New episode of landing roads with the viggen?

I've never played DCS, but the real 37 was a mach 2+ airplane. Nice flying though :)

@Norqvistm

Жыл бұрын

some pilots claimed that the Viggen didn't have a top speed. it would accelerate until the tank was dry or until the frame or the engine starts to break apart

And people think I'm weird for wanting to learn to fly the Viggen, even if I've never flown DCS properly before..

Great video, you pronunciation of "Viggen" was actually very good, well done! It's an amazing module from the best module maker out there, Heatblur. The plane it self is so much fun, while the lure of modern F16's and F18's and what not is always there, the Viggen is just so much more fun. Everything from ground attacks to air to air is amazing. You mentioned it's ship strike capabilities . It's main objective from the start, and something our Swedish pilots trained for a lot was anti ship strike. We knew our enemy would come from the east and would have to cross the sea to get here. The main objective was to cause as much damage as early on as possible using the air force to strike the enemy ships followed up by our navy and then the coastal artillery.

@morrikai

Жыл бұрын

And I allways belived they were named after the bird vigg (Tufted duck in english)

@wilbuzllf5057

Жыл бұрын

@@morrikai i understand why that could be! Bolt of lightning is what it means 🙂

Had the draken in austria, astonishing plane. Wish we also would had the Viggen.

@Norqvistm

Жыл бұрын

if I remember correctly. I'm not enierly sure so don't quote me on this but I think the Viggen shared some technology with an american aircraft. And the americans stopped any and every sale of the Viggen. so the Viggen only flew in the swedish airforce..

Thanks for making more DCS videos. Love them so much, keep up the good work!

Mycket bra uttal! -----> 01:49 ... Very good pronunciation of the SAAB Viggen.

That was the only plane ever that had technically intercepted the SR-71. Thank God they were on our side.

@pilsplease7561

Жыл бұрын

No they did not technically do it, no plane ever has.

@josephsimeon6117

Жыл бұрын

@@pilsplease7561 I read an article about 6 months ago about it. If I remember correctly the Swedes were able to to get in a missle firing position by coming from the front. If I can find the article again I'll share it.

fully approve of 7:12 🙃

I got to be in the cockpit of a Viggen at an airshow when I was young, nothing short of awesome. I still get to see one every now and then when I have to go out of town. It's majestically (permanently) parked right next to the road.

Appreciate showing the night lighting. That’s some sick ambience

The name Viggen would translates to "Bolt" in the word thunderbolt in english 😁 fiting name!

@TheMarcusNyberg

Жыл бұрын

Never really heard anyone use it like that though, "åskvigg" sure its a word but you just say "blixt" :S

@hrodebert6531

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMarcusNyberg The name was chosen in the sixties, they were more into old-timey words and expressions then. The word 'vigg' itself originates in ancient nordic. It can refer to either the actual lightning bolt and to the sound it makes (the thunderclap). '[Thunder-] Bolt' is the most appropriate translation I've seen as the name of the aircraft is both a reference to the jagged outline formed by the combined canard and delta wing (similar to the shape of a thunderbolt/lightning bolt), and to nordic mythology by likening the sonic boom produced to the sound of Thor's hammer during thunderstorms.

Almost every road in sweden is build to be a runway for planes

@jari2018

Жыл бұрын

seen those paces were teh planes are supposed to be held - missmanagent since 30 years with huligans doing thier things and trash everywhere - will take years to undone what has happen

The song used in the intro cutscenes is Digital Chaos by ELFL.

this summer my hometowns airport had 50 year aniversity airshow so the draken, viggen and gripen was there and did high speed flybys and short landing and takeoff demenstration

Ah one of my fav airplanes. Once again Sweden was ahead of its time in military tech

As a Swede I have a special love for the viggen it is so cool and it was our spearhead for everything during the Cold War

FYI, a huge majority of swedish jets even the current gripen still operate on the basis of "take off on short roads and land o nshort roads"

One thing you didn't mention is how easy the Viggen is to set up missions for. Before take off in the F10 map you can mark waypoints and targets, then when you load the data cartridge on start up it will have all the waypoints already set up. You can be even lazier and just select the premade mission targets from the kneeboard, on the Enigma server it works well for low level bombing runs.

My dad flew this beauty. Flyg hårt, flyg lågt!

When he said Dorito I was thinking of the mirage but forgot about the title 😂

@rkgrei

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the Draken, a literal flying dorito

@PatrickRatman

Жыл бұрын

was gonna say the viggen is a double dorito the mirage is the real dorito lol.

My dad was a mechanic in the swedish air force during 1989 - 1990 Swedish Viggens would quite often take off from his airbase and these viggens were the fighter ones aswell which had a much bettet and stronger engine

Growing up in Sweden I was out on a small boat dock as a young teen and two Viggen practicing come flying just about the sea level at speed and roar of their engines as the came screeming just over head and pulling up to skim the tree tops is a memory I can recall like it was yesterday

the viggen could actually go mach 2.1

@2canines

Жыл бұрын

Low altitude is the point.

@2canines

Жыл бұрын

You will not go mach 2 at sea level in any aircraft.

J35 when? ;)

I love this video, I have a passion for cold war swedish jets

I remember during my draft in Östersund Sweden in like 2002, how we watched scores of Viggens comming in for landing

How can people not know the viggen? It's the viggen.