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A Swedish pilot flew alongside a crippled SR-71 that hit Mach 3 while Russian MiGs were in pursuit — here is what happened next
How the SR-71 Blackbird Was Saved: The Saab JA-37 Viggen was a highly capable, advanced Swedish Cold War fighter active from ...
The fastest plane to ever fly retired from service decades ago. When the American-made SR-71 Blackbird was introduced during the Cold War, its innovative technologies, electronics, and avionics pushed ...
As capable as the SR-71 was, no aircraft is invincible. Over time, a specially trained Swedish JA-37 Viggen unit developed a successful process for intercepting SR-71s as they flew along the same ...
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft in the world. It is also one of the most fearsome reconnaissance aircraft, able to outrun threats from the Soviet Union at ...
When Saab was still alive and a respectable automaker, it sometimes tried to piggyback on its aerospace and defense legacy. Very subtly, for example, with the original 9-3 Viggen. Today only the ...
Here’s an interesting video, showing the SAAB J-37 Viggen at work in Sweden some years ago. The footage brings you in the cockpit of the Swedish Air Force’s delta wing plane, at very low level, over ...
Like a Nascar pit stop. That is how one former Saab Gripen and Viggen pilot describes the Swedish air force’s decades-old prowess in conducting road-strip operations. Like a Nascar pit stop. That is ...
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