One wonders if this has been attempted at Cold Lake or Bagotville:
VIDEO: Swedish Air Force unveils new Viggen capability – sledding!
[CORRECTION: The video shows the Viggen, not the Gripen. Still, I'm sure it's available as a retrofit option.] I hope Saab updates its Gripen sales pitch [more here]. The never-revealed-before sledding feature of the Swedish Air Force fourth-generation fighter could be decisive in a close sales competition with the F-35. Forget AESA. If only the Norwegians knew about this, the F-35 wouldn’t have had a chance in Oslo [more here]!
Mark
Ottawa
Can you imagine the cost of the fuel used to play around with this fighter!
Better they should use a Skidoo.
I think… yep… that’s the awesomest thing I have seen in my life.
Sounds like a great use for the CF-18s once the F35s come on board.
Crazy b*st*rds! Hasn’t anyone heard of jet engine exhaust blast in Sweden? Here’s diagrams and numbers, just for a turboprop.
Boys will be boys.
When I was growing up in Montreal we used to grab onto the rear bumpers of city buses in the winter and slid along on busy streets.
No doubt a skilled pilot. I remember at Namao Air Force base in the 1950s after an aerobatic display in a Hawker Hunter, the pilot landed and taxied his plane in behind some parked cars, on an apron. The skill of his ground handling was as impressive although not as spectacular as his aerobatic skills.
The Swedes are unlikely ever use that fighter jet for killing an enemy, so they might as well get some use out of it.
The Swedes because of lack of having children are already an extinct people.
In a hundred years, no one will remember them anymore than the Hittites. Sweden is already an Islamic Country. Just watch the video’s of there ever aging Police run from their replacements. No kids, no Civilizational continuance. Simple arithmetic. They can blame no one but their selfish selves.
JMO
I’m not sure that going forward Canadians will be in a great position to throw stones:
“Afstan: Swedes hanging tough(ish)”
http://unambig.com/afstan-swedes-hanging-tough/
By the way our media did not report the above.
Mark
Ottawa
[...] seems like an excellent idea after a couple of beers in the O-Club, but might turn out to be less entertaining after your [...]
Touche.
So what’s the Canadians’ excuse (for not having any fun with the THEIR fighters)?
And remember also that this government was, and remains, unwilling to deploy our CF-18s to Afstan for fear that a bomb or missile might kill civilians and cause a political and media uproar here:
http://www.canada.com/news/Allies+quietly+urging+Canada+deploy+Afghanistan/1512642/story.html
Mark
Ottawa
I hear the Liberals like this idea for our air force. Each of those sleds is considered an armed weapon of the air force.
Rev Dream:
The total fertility rate in Sweden is higher than in Canada. I suppose that means Canadians are also extinct?
And to call Sweden an Islamic Country is just ignorant.