How Sweden made the best fighter jet - Saab 35 Draken

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[martinboodukofi]

"and its sequel, ww2 Electric Bugaloo"
That shit made my day LOL

[UncleManuel]

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. ✌️

[TheZinmo]

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.

[adamhlali]

Like imagine trying to outsmart a jet by being slow and he just sits behind you wondering what you are doing xD

[vonholdinghausen]

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.

[guigui]

"Unintentionally broke the sound barrier" best accident ever

[ChiliYiyuan]

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 :)

[Anonymous-zudh]

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.

[WwZa]

The Draken is really one of the prettiest planes ever created, along with it's modern equivalent, the Grippen

[TheTuberKnownAsMe]

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!

[FlashSwe]

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 😇

[RoverIAC]

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.

[BustaHymen]

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

[unpunnyfuns]

@3:01 "Due to the size of its territory" - Shows a Norwegian valley.

[raphaelresendefabris]

How not to like Sweden?! They gave us the Saab, Volvo, Scania, Koenigsegg, Swedish House ❤❤❤❤❤

[matso]

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

[mallry]

As a dane i do like to tease/poke fun at the swedes but I will say they do build some pretty cool things

[m.sydneyvern]

The J-35 is definantly the best first go to pick in Ace Combat Zero.

Shout out to Espada Team!

Captain Alberto Lopez《Espada 1 to Espada 2. Its time to stop the Demon Lord.》
Second Lieutenant Marcela Vasquez 《This is Espada 2. Roger. Lead the way.》

[nirfz]

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.)

[Hackofjarten]

As a Swede I think you did pretty good pronouncing the words and I’m very excited for the next videos in this series