Saab Viggen Multirole Combat Aircraft | An Aircraft That Could Radarlock The SR-71 Blackbird
Saab 37 Viggen, the advanced aircraft, and the only one that could lock on the legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
The Saab 37 Viggen (Swedish for “the Bolt“ or “the Tufted Duck“ is a retired Swedish single-seat, single-engine, short-medium range multirole combat aircraft. Development work on the type was initiated at Saab in 1952 and, following the selection of a radical delta wing configuration, the resulting aircraft performed its first flight on 8 February 1967 and entered service on 21 June 1971. It was the first canard design produced in quantity and arguably the most modern/advanced combat aircraft in Europe at the time of introduction, featuring an airborne digital central computer with integrated circuits for its avionics, the world’s first of its kind, automating and taking over tasks previously requiring a navigator/copilot, facilitating handling in tactical situations where, among other things, high speeds and short decision times determined whether attacks would be succ
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