Sweden Testing to Land its Homemade Fighter Jet in Middle of Highway

Umm…they have been doing that all the way back with the Viggen…for like at least 30-40 years

Sweden's road bases have been operational since the inclusion of the Draken fighter aircraft in the late 1950s, so it is nothing new. There have been about 200 such road runway strips al over Sweden, though the main usage has always been to allow easily overtake a slow driver in front of you ;-) This since these roadbases are 7 m/22 ft wider than normal roads (8 m/ 28 ft), particularly useful if a 24 m/78 ft lorry is in front of you, giving 1000 m or yards overtake. Finland included the same type of road bases But, timing is uncertain if they used them with their ol' Draken Fighter or only with their F-18s. Doubt that a grass strip, as asked about, can hold the weight of a Gripen, but some say it can use gravel/metal roads. After driving a lot in Switzerland, they have some similar road bases doubling as ordinary roads long before they bought their F-18s.

This has been the Swedish defense doctrine since the early 1960's...

Great fighter jets

And, we've been doing it for as long as we've had an Air Force.

Try to do service with an American fighter plane on a road base in the middle of the forest, the JAS Gripen has a built-in diagnostic system that sees if service is required, an engine change takes 1 hour in the forest. Fuel and weapons take 10 minutes. The plane is basically built to be easy to service, can take off and land on short distances.

wow, nice video

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Can JAS 39 land on grassfield like Indian Jaguar jet?

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Do sweden train on landing on hangar skeeps???

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this is not New JA 37 viggen did this back in the 80s so it is not that impressive since we did it 40 years ago.

It's not a G63 AMG

Homemade ??????????????

The UK needs to seriously consider this type landing zones itself. Since in any war air bases are automatic targets and use of IBM s landing would be strategically difficult and stupid

Ridiculous post. They been doing this for 40-50 years as many other countrys...LOL

The Swiss army did the same thing in Switzerland last week with their FA18. So nothing special!