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They are, the JA is actually about half a foot longer than the AJ to make room for more thrust. :pilotfly:

That bouncing Jaguar terrifies me! Using a drag chute at a war base terrifies me! Silly inferior aircraft without thrust reverser! :music_whistling:

Exactly, it might just be "equally bad at doing strike missions as it is doing intercept missions" instead of being equally good at them both. :P

DANSK.... JÄVLAR!!! :joystick:

And underground aircraft factories! ;D And road bases! :D

You appear to be in luck! Flygplan Kort 1987 is available on eBay! It wasn't no, AIM-7 and later AMRAAM support was limited to the Fighter variant JA-37. :-) It very well might have! I understand that the same organisation is actually restoring a SK-37 (two seater trainer) variant as well, so if they are lucky they might even be able to catch a ride! :-)

I'm just going to be "that guy" and point out that the only flying Viggen we have in the world is an AJS, not an AJ. ;-)

DCS: AJS-37 Viggen Discussion And there's a third "stick" to the right to control the Rb 05 missile if I understand correctly! My desk is gonna need to get bigger! XD

Here we go all over again! xD

Yea, the budgets within the swedish air force (and the armed forces as a whole) at the time was insanely high, at one point i think we had one of the top 3 air forces in the world, completely insane considering we are a country of then maybe 7-8 million. xD I'm pretty sure the laws are the same still, but it is getting more common to make exceptions to these laws for various reasons. :-)

Porn is what i would call it, but to each his own i guess! :pilotfly:

I read somewhere that the permitted FL was 10 meters above lakes and sea and 20 meters above ground, i understand this was common occurrence. At that altitud and speed i doubt even MANPADS would be a threat? Fun and also very challenging, i suspect there is a high risk of forgetting to steer the actual aircraft! :joystick: :joystick:

The AJS mainly was a systems upgrade in terms of electronics and weapon loadout capability, there was little or no difference in the cockpit compared to the AJ as far as I'm aware. :-) The radar is better than the one in the AJ, it's more or less the same capability of that used in the previous recon variants, since it was now to be used for radar recon missions. It could however not cart any camera pods like the previous dedicated recon variants could. :-) Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk

The AJS is pretty much just a AJ with a slightly modernized payload, if you're asking for the interceptor variant that's the JA-37. That's pretty much a completely different aircraft from the AJ/AJS. :-) Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk

Next aircraft speculation Here's one where it carries 4 BK-90/DWS-39 Mjolnir. :-) This document has a few shots of different loadouts. :-) [ame]http://www.fht.nu/bilder/Flygvapnet/Flygvapennytt/fv_nytt_2_91_ajs_37_viggen.pdf[/ame] Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk

Yea that seems more likely since 99% of the swedish sorties are to intercept russian/soviet aircraft over the baltic sea. :P

Yes, because as far as i know they never actually used it in any capacity in the swedis air force. :-/

I'm fairly sure only the later upgrades to the JA-37 (in 1997) got the color mfd (the same on that was in the A/B version if the Gripen. Edit: This is probably what you are thinking of, and it is indeed the JA-37, NOT the AJS. :-)

Well, the AJS (unlike the JA and AJ) is a limited multirole, so there's that...

In short: Rb 04E (Anti ship missile) Rb 15F (Anti ship missile, originaly developed for the Gripen) Rb 05 (AG missile guided by a joystick in the cockpit. The missile could be fired instantly as soon as a target was spoted and automatically steered in front of the aircraft where the pilot could se it and visually guide it towards the target. It had a liquid fuel rocket engine that did not generate much smoke, and had a tracer element increasing it's visibility to the pilot. It's similar to the AGM-12 Bullpup) Rb 75 (Maverick TV guided missile) Raketkapsel m/70 (Rocket pods with 6 13.5cm rockets, up to 4 pods can be carried at once.) Sprängbomb m/61 (120kg conventional bombs) Bombkapsel 90 (cluster bomb) Two external 30mm autocannon pods can be equiped for air to air engagements, as well as Rb 24 missiles (AIM-9 Sidewinder). I'm not sure of the specific version, i know the JA 37 carried the Aim-9L but i'm faily sure the AJS had an older variant, most likely a version of the AIM-9P-3 modified by SAAB designated the Rb 24J) It doesn't have any internal countermeasures, instead it relies on external pods for this functionality just like the MiG-21bis.

They have not, but it is one of very few aircraft that fits most if not all the hints given earlier this year, that is not still classified in some way. Also, about halv of leathernecks development team is swedish, so they might have some personal interest in finally getting a full DCS level sim of a SAAB aircraft out there. :-) (and being a swede myself, i would love it if that was the case! :joystick: )

Ok guys, you can go ahead with the announcement now, this guy obviosuly cracked it! :pilotfly:

This is so true! A lot of videos has surfaced during the last years from Syria where the Mig-21 is being used in the current conflict, to say that it would be completely impossible that it would face any of the current Russian or American fighters is just ridiculous. Would it be a fair fight? Of course not, but life is rarely fair! :P

Yes this! It is mentioned in the Swedish video that was referenced a few posts ago that the JA -37 has more in common with the early version of the Gripen than it has with the rest of the SAAB 37 variants. As you say the engine was different, the avionics had very little similarities. To quote the swedish wikipedia entry for the SAAB 37 system: "The electronics of the JA-37 was completely different from that in any of the other variants" and "SAAB constructed a new central computer (CD-107) for the JA 37 whose capacity was five times greater than the central computer in the AJ 37". All of the above makes the inclusion of both the JA and the AJ/S variants in one module quite unlikely. But who knows, maybe all along they have been developing something completely different, my personal favourite would be "DCS Da Vinci Aerial screw"! :pilotfly: Very likely, but the JA still has little in common electronics wise with other variants. If we get do get a Viggen, i would much prefer a ground pounder than another fighter in DCS! :D Just look at this, doesn't it look like fun! :pilotfly: (A word of warning for your own sanity, mute the video, whoever edited it for youtube has put 2 or 3 different sound tracks on top of each other.)

Yea that's probably true! :-)