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IOW - earlier & greater cooperation with SAAB and the British companies, while the cooperation between the later and the French and other European NATO is much smaller? Draken was powered by the British engine, Viggen was supposed to be powered by the Medway, while the Gripen should've been just...

Everybody and his brother were trying to have as good as aiforce/air-service as possible, and especially in the specified time frame, but many times the available budget was a serious brick wall between the desires and reality. What kind of aircraft should a not-rich, but a reasonably developed...

Came across this small note on a seabed rov variant of the BV 206: Source Further research turned up two photographs from the Hägglunds afv collection showing the vehicle and a sales prospect found in a Masters thesis on a diving service vessel

https://www.ointres.se/pansar_2011-4_veak.pdf S-tank derivative SPAAG. Noticed we lack a thread on this vehicle. Long story short. During WWII, the Swedish Army found a need for SPAAGs (self-propelled anti-aircraft guns) for the armoured divisions. After a proof of concept vehicle in 1942, the...

According to wikipedia, there have been multiple attemps to export the Saab 35 draken. Countries listed: Switzerland Beligum Argentina Venezula Chile Singapore Tunisia Malaysia sourced: Widfeldt 1995, p. 134. Any information or artwork would be welcome!

These are the variants of Taurus that i am aware of: Taurus KEPD 350: Standard version in service with Germany Spain and South Korea Taurus KEPD 150/Taurus L: A lighter variant of the in-service kinetic penetrator Taurus intended for Sweden to arm the Gripen. Taurus KEPD 150 SLM: Ship launched...

Discussion about German corvettes seems to have been popular lately so I'm sharing this Swedish project which I found in Jane's 1972-73. The design was to be a flotilla leader for MTBs or FACs as well as escorts for the remaining destroyer fleet that was then still active. Two were to be built...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPMIjVGzd0 From the comments thread:

Nice origin story for the Meteor missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S225XR

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/09/saab-receives-orders-from-sweden-for-submarine-upgrades/ HSwMS Östergötland isn't mentioned in the article, but presumably it will receive the same upgrade as HSwMS Södermanland in due course.

This was a discussion that began in the Gripen thread, but rather than have this "what-if" go off topic there, I felt it would be best to have a dedicated thread here as it's an interesting "what-if" As we know.. the Gripen replaced the larger/heavier Viggen. its a small, light weight design...

I was thinking if it is plausible to get a mobile launcher for either Thunderbird or Bloodhound missiles on a Centurion tank chassis.

France, Germany and Sweden have agreed to develop a new medium-size tactical transport plane. this is intended to replace the C-130J in the 2040's and supplement the Airbus A400M https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/france-germany-sweden-launch-future-transport-aircraft personel...

https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/productfamily/cv90 https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/cv90 https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/cv90-mkiv https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/cv90-ifv-world-leading-combat-capability...

So, a few years back SAAB posted a bunch of pictures of a series of small craft they'd designed, possibly just to show off their Sea Giraffe, CEROS, and EOS family (part of the 9LV combat system). There were three ships in total: The "FlexPatrol 98", a 98 meter patrol craft depicted with a 57...

https://metinkaplandesign.artstation.com/projects/aRmxV9

In the 70s, India worked hard to acquire the Viggen, which was ultimately blocked by the US, due to distrust of India's relations with the USSR. In the end India went with the UK-French SPACECAT Jaguar. Lets say in this alternative history, the US did not block the sale, and it went through...

So in the same vein as others....what if Sweden turned more of it's projects into reality and which would they be? The big one has to be a Swedish Nuclear Weapons program... Presumably with A36 Strike Aircraft. Would this have a ballistic missile companion? Such Nuclear production could make...

where I can find some articles or website to show the "preliminary designs" of early post war Swedish warships such as oland and halland class.┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘

If the drawings below are accurate, the resemblance is a bit odd, and profuse apologies if the topic was discussed before. https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ww2planes/messerschmitt/78737/view/messerschmitt_bf_109x_v21/...