Historical event involving the Viggen

[Garyss]

For Viggen drivers:

 

https://theaviationist.com/2018/11/29/that-time-a-crippled-sr-71-blackbird-was-intercepted-by-four-swedish-viggens-after-violating-swedens-airspace/

[reilar]

Tanks for the link. Very interesting to read. Didn't know there were four Viggens involved. The two JAs that arrived first beside the Blackbird was new to me. Regarding the second pair, what I've been told, they were actually AJs (not JAs as is mentioned in the article). I'm pretty sure this is correct because one of the pilots I can identify as an AJ driver by name.

Maybe someone will be interested making a DCS scenario out of it:)

[Rudel_chw]

Pity that there is no SR-71 Mod to use in DCS :(

[Redglyph]

Nice story, thanks for sharing! :)

 

Pity that there is no SR-71 Mod to use in DCS :(

 

It would be an awesome module technically speaking, but it wouldn't make sense in the relatively "small" DCS maps (and here I emphasize "relatively"). This bird best operates at speeds beyond 3.05 M and altitudes higher than 71000 ft. With a maximum load factor of 1.5 and a turn radius of more than 40 NM, this would allow for little excitement, even if there was a map big enough for a significant flight (and a PC powerful enough to load the required objects the Blackbird is able to photograph - probably the entire map, actually). Finally, the spy role is not supported at all in the current missions.

 

Still, that would be a challenge to operate, even more with only one pilot :)

[javelina1]

a great story to share. thanks for the post.