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Better shots of the Viggen airbrakes:

Nothing beats a little industrial/EBM on a Sunday:

I'm sure they work hard on it. But some sort of Viggen lifesign would still be nice.

Is it just me or is the lack of official news regarding this module a bit disturbing? I mean we are halfway through March now. I am not asking for a release date or anything but something official would be nice as a change to 150+ pages of speculation. :music_whistling:

Where are you located Ramsey?

I posted a separate thread about it earlier so that this info won't get buried among RBS15 and Centralkalkylator discussions. :thumbup: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=161344

Today Swedish Airforce Historic Flight announced their schedule for 2016. Some dates haven't been officially confirmed yet but the schedule gives you an indication of what to expect. So far the AJS37 (SE-DXN) has been confirmed to appear at: May: Poznan AEROFestival 2016, Poland July: Bray Air Display 2016, Ireland Hopefully more appearances will be confirmed soon. See the full list and dates at http://www.swafhf.se/flygprogram.html

I like the way you think! :thumbup:

I think more RAM and using SSD instead of HDD would improve your experience.

Härnösand is a nice town. Had a lot of fun there - especially at a place called Cafe Dailys. Heard that place burnt down a few years later though. Too bad the regiment is gone... Still have my old arm patch sown to a duffel bag I use often.

MKN/KA5 Härnösand. Later stationed on Holmögadd.

We must also remember that the Swedish armed forces leadership was fully aware of that Sweden could never win a war if the Soviets decided to invade full scale. In 1970 Sweden had a total population of approx 8.000.000 so anyone could take an educated guess on how long it would take to wear us down simply by facing us with a "meat wall" of Soviet troops. The whole idea behind the Swedish defence was to make an invasion attempt so costly in men and materials so that the Soviets would think twice before trying. And the AJS37 fits into this doctrine pretty well. Hit hard, escape and (hopefully) live to fight another day. I served in Kustartilleriet (the Swedish coastal defence forces with both marine infantry and fixed and mobile artillery emplacements - I belonged to the marine infantry) in 1990/91 on the northern Baltic coast. Our artillery spotters trained on how to identify troop carrying vessels so that no ammo would be wasted on other ships. All this talk about a about a Soviet invasion makes me think of a story (a true one) that a friend of mine told me. In 1989 he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Swedish Airforce and trained new recruits. In every exercise there were talks about "enemy from the East", "when the Russians arrive" and "when the Soviets attack". At one point a recruit got a bit annoyed (probably because of his personal political beliefs) and shouted "there is always talk about the enemy attacking from the east. The enemy might as well come from the west?!?". A seasoned Major replied: "Of course soldier! They can attack from the west. But it will be a helluva detour for them!". Found this article in a Swedish newspaper about Soviet invasion maps which is pretty interesting: http://www.svd.se/svenska-byggnader-som-markts-ut-pa-sovjets-kartor_4502746

There are no large cities in Sweden... Even the largest aren't that large compared to Las Vegas. And personally I couldn't care less if there are cars double parked outside the local strip joint when I pass in Mach 2. I think the level of detail of NTTR is wrong for a flight sim (and not enough for a ground war sim) so I would be more than happy with the level of detail the current Caucasus map offers. I will probably not buy a map like the ones you suggest above since I want to use it with other aircraft and for other "what if" scenarios as well. I want beacons for navigation and I want to look at other stuff than water when I fly. The Viggens weren't designed to attack Kaliningrad anyway so from a realism standpoint it doesn't stand either. And from a gameplay perspective that area seems boring to say the least. Also bear in mind that there is a BO105 helo coming for DCS as well. Are we going to have that flying around the island all day? Have you guys been to Gotland? The landscape except the rauks in the south is utterly boring and makes the sand of Nevada look rich in variation. And forest road bases? Where are you going to put them on Gotland? There wasn't even any permanent Cold War airbases on Gotland since they were all located on mainland Sweden.

Having a map with just the coastline and Gotland would be pretty boring like all maps with mostly water are. It would make more sense to have the whole width of Sweden south of Vänern and perhaps include parts of Denmark and Bornholm. There were also plenty of airbases in this area: F5, F6, F7, F9, F10, F12, and F14. The distance from F6 to Visby is less than 250 km's and from F7 to Visby it's 340 km's. From Såtenäs to Bornholm it's 390 km's. That is about half the distance from Vaziani to Anapa on the Caucasus map. As a matter of fact even northern parts of Poland could be included and it would still be smaller than the Caucasus map... It would certainly be more fun from a gameplay point of view than flying over the Baltic sea from Aircraft Carrier Gotland...

In my humble opinion you will need analog rudder controls at one point or the other once your flying skills increase. It is almost impossible to make proper coordinated turns or controlled advanced maneuvers without using rudder input. A common newcomer mistake (I know, since I did exactly the same...) is to think that rudder is used for turning and that having rudder pedals isn't really necessary other than for helos. The truth is quite opposite and once you learn how to control your rudder you get an advantage, especially when flying the WW2 birds. Back to your question: I really think you should give the P-51 or perhaps the Messerschmitt a go. Yes, they lack a scenario and ground units but from a flying perspective they are awesome. I own all modules for DCS except the L-39 and they are all good in their own way. But I keep coming back to the prop planes again and again.

1. SAAB AJS 37 Viggen (+ Scandinavian scenario) 2. Ju 87 3. F14 (and hopefully carrier ops)

Thanx for clarifying!

The Swedish text written by a former weapons technician at F16 that I quoted is talking about pods mounted on pylons. But as I said... Not sure if this is applicable to the AJS.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think the Viggen had separate dispensers for chaffs and flares: The BOL 451 (chaffs) and BOY 401 (flares). I know that the info below was applicable to the JA at least: The BOY 401 had 6 cassettes per dispenser. Each cassette could be loaded with two cartridges and each cartridge contained two flares. Two dispensers could be carried on pylons H7H and H7V. This means a maximum of 48 flares per aircraft. The BOL 451 contained 160 strips packed in 12 smaller units and could be placed on either pylon R7V or R7H. Theoretically you could have used two dispensers but to my knowledge only one was used at a time in order to not waste pylon space. EDIT: Just stumbled on this in the soldf.com forum which seems to correlate with what I just wrote:

Not sure about a Bering/North Atlantic scenario for the AJS37. Wouldn't make much sense. I am really hoping for a Baltic region scenario for it and if I am not mistaken there has been rumours about such a map.

I think it was designed to withstand 12 G's but operational limit was 7. Someone can probably correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, hearing the roar of the RM8 is more than half of the experience. Have seen the planes in the videos I linked several times but I am just as marvelled every time I hear the Viggen and the Draken. I also remember seeing and hearing Viggens from F7 as a kid. We had a summer house at Vänersnäs, right across the water (southern part of Lake Vänern) from the airbase. We used to hear them going out and coming back from missions. I really hope they get the sound right!

Some more AJS37 pr0n (all High res videos): Makes you kind of proud to be a Swede:

I just spent some time on Google since I am curious about this as well. It seems as if NASA (or associated companies such as Rockwell) personnel came to Sweden. I found CV's for some NASA staff (past or present) and they show evidence of them being in Sweden. Here is one example: http://www.usafa.edu/df/dfan/faculty%20and%20staff/yechout.cfm There is also information about data exchange. I found a NASA document Viggen that mentions damage tolerance data from Swedish tests that were implemented in the NASA database. I can't link this pdf for some reason though... Google "NASA Viggen evaluation" and you will find it. [ame=http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19840011211.pdf][/ame] This document mentions tests carried out by Rockwell and SAAB: [ame]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Flying_Beyond_the_Stall.pdf[/ame] My conclusion is that no 37 ever left Sweden for this. At least I can't find any evidence of it.