Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Military Aviation History" channel.

  1. Better to do something every time on the incomplete data at hand and risk mistakes than to waste a single opportunity of causing decisive damage to the enemy and endanger other friendly units by inaction.
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  2. And in my Swedish conscript training in 2003, we were always issued enough blanks to fill up our mags and have boxes to top up at least four more mags each, carbines kept loaded all the time in the field. And that was in a mortar platoon. We didn't have any machineguns though, but that was due to regimental command singling us out for palace guard rotation twice in that year so our officers were forced to prioritise parade drill over machine gun qualification. In volounteer defense militia training since 2010, I never experienced any serious ammo shortages on blanks or live rounds except for the Recoilless 84mm. Once or twice there's been a shortage of 7.62×51 blanks at the end of an exercise at platoon level, but then it's always been a result of the two to three machinegunners hogging ~900rnds each, stuffed in repurposed medical kit bags, dump pouches or extra gas mask bags and dialed up the gas regulator on their MAG 58s to 850<1100 rounds per minute...
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  3.  @Hiznogood  my maternal uncle was one of the SAAB 35 & 37 pilots that survived to retire to a civilian airline career when he got too old for combat flights, he's implied it was fairly common for some of them to return to base with pine needles and twigs stuck in the weapon rails... It tended to result in a verbal scolding from the CO, at the base command offices for the record, followed by a toast and back pats down at the officers mess...
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  4. ​ @YankeeCommie  quit lying...
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  5. SAAB and the Swedish airforce started experimenting with, then analog, radio data links with the SAAB J35 Draken in the late 1950ies, the last version of the Viggen was essentially a sub-systems test platform for the GripenA and had a networked digital data link 😁
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  6. Yeah, it's an utter disgrace and criminal negligience by our politicians for the last 30 years.
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  7.  @LRRPFco52  we didn't have US/NATO IADS at the time
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  8. As for coms systems,most of the swedish systems are already NATO compatible, as it was pretty much a prerequisite to decades of active participation in both PFP and, as invitee OP-for in Red Flag exercises 😊 In addition, the SAAB 39 uses mainly NATO standard ordnance, sometimes also availiable modified with our own twist, such as the primarily ground-launched Rb-17 short range anti-ship missile, which is essentially a US hellfire missile modified with an APFRAG warhead instead of the HEAT warhead of the original.
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  9. We also lost, on average, at least one Swedish airforce pilot a week to low altitude accidents, mistakes or malfunctions throughout most of the cold war... Lost, as in dead or crippled beyond ever recovering flying capability.
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  10. ​ @jeandutoit1413  it's not a "Wunderwaffe" it's just an extremely well designed and thus reliable, modular work horse.
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  11. Wrong. Sweden restarted the conscript system in 2014.
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  12. I think they won't. Even when bases in neighbouring allied countries become availiable, a dispersed semi-permanent/temporary base doctrine allows a lot of flexibility and shortens the travel time to engagement zone, a factor especially critical for contested airspace CAS.
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  13.  @matsv201  sitting in it and just looking is one thing, filming or otherwise documenting the insides is a whole different matter of national security, not only to Sweden, but also to the export clients that are using it.
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  14.  @williamzk9083  hell, even Leo2A4/A5 is better than the T-72s needing to be replaced, and if the Eastern NATO /EU states want the more modern versions, they can pay for a production licence for the upgrade pack and do the work themselves.
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  15. Why is my sarcasm sensor lighting up like a coca cola christmas commercial? 😂
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  16. Good road maintenance and ground crew road sweeper trucks.
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  17. He's been to the Linköping museum, but I don't think he's been to the Göteborg or Ängelholm air museums.
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  18.  @andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928  interesting about the G3, I have been issued two since I joined my country's national defence militia in 2010, the first one got swapped for the second one in 2020 as part of a modernization upgrade. I think I've had around 5-10 failiures in total between them, half in the first two e exercised on the current one as they were issued drenched in old, sticky preservation grease that had to be cleaned off as best we could with fuel grade alcohol and then clean off all the old, chemically neutralized powder slag the previous user never bothered to clean before he handed it back in for storage. It was so bad, it took around two hours just to get it clean enough to get the extractor spring and extractor block out of the bolt... and just as long to clean the delaying shoulders in the trunion for the bolt rollers. The other failiures can be attributed to the fact that we have to use a brass catcher pouch in peace time which sometimes lets an extracted brass case bounce back into the ejection port in front of the next round as it's pushed forward, jamming up the gun.
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  19. ​​ @pistonburner6448  the Swedish dispersion system isn't even a shed, it's six pre-trained airforce conscripts and a professional technical officer with three trucks with trailers and an escorting base security conscript platoon heading out to a straight, pot hole free section of country road, closing it off at both ends, sweeping the worst debris off the road, set up a turnover area on a rest stop zone and activates a radio beacon... Two planes come in, lands, reverses into the turnover area under their own power, gets rearmed and a hot refuel by four of the conscripts, the technical officer and the other two conscripts takes the log dump and gives the planes an external inspection while the pilots gets a snack and some hot beverage and/or gets out to relieve themselves as quick as possible and back up on the next sortie 10-15minutes later, and with the planes gone, the ground crew with escorts yeets themselves out of there to top up on AV fuel, ordnance and then head out to their next, different stretch of road.
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  20.  @timothyhouse1622  tbf, Rumsfeld wasn't the one who came up with that quote, it's been a maxim since before he was born.
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  21.  @johanlassen6448  you still can't do a straight swap between a Volvo RM12 and the GM original version of the engine. The RM12, just like every single turbine engine and every other piece of equipment made under licence for FMV is modified from the foreign originals to the point that they are not fully compatible with much of the accessories or vehicles made to fit the foreign made originals.
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  22.  @orestes1984  Iirc, Swedish airforce pilots are allowed to fly combat aircraft until they hit 45, assuming they pass all of the recurring medical and physical exams, then they either transfer to logistics aircraft like the C-130 if there's availiable slots, transfer to staff officer/instructor officer duties or retire the airforce to fly as a civilian airliner pilot like my maternal uncle did.
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  23.  @John_Redcorn_  the US planes are definitely designed for war, just not for the same kind of war as the Viggen amd Gripen where all of your airbases are within comfortable range of enemy cruise missiles, glide bombs and even rocket artillery...
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  24. ​ @rockfella1377  Marshal Zhukov would be spinning in his grave in rage at Putins naziism if he could...
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  25. It indeed becomes a force limiter if the number of multirole aircraft is not roughly equal to the combined numbers of single/dual role aircraft.
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  26.  @aaronwilkinson8963  if I knew my loved ones at home would be taken care of practically and economically while I was gone or if I fell, I wouldn't object to a defensive deployment regardless of if it's in my own country or to help defend an ally that's been invaded. Be that Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine or somewhere else.
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  27. ​ @TypicalAmericanDad  they were keeping up a false apperance of beeing 2nd world... that mask has since failed 😂
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  28. Technically, Swedish defence industries are not allowed to sell weapons or munitions to any country that's likely to use them offensively. Bofors and a few others circumvent that through selling licences for local production of things like the AT4 and the Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle.
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  29. In my father's early years as an officer, he had the responsibility to train a FLAK section at his regiment, his sollution to the IFF issue was to buy as many plastic models of the different Aircraft types used by NATO and Warsaw pact countries as availiable along with the right Paints and then have the conscripts he trained assemble and paint the models as accurately as possible as extra evening duty, using recon photos from border patrol and tresspass deterrence intercepts as well as news photos and the box cover art. When the models were done, they fixed drinking straws to the backs of the planes and fitted them to pulley rigs in the celing of the gunnery training hall, so that the FLAK gunners and fire directors would have an as realistic training experience as possible. (This was back in the 70'ies)
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  30.  @vknight7497  while you are correct, if he feels that his outrage at the Russian crimes is too strong to just refer to them as enemy soldiers, who are we to judge?
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  31.    or possibly begging for a basting in Turkey ;)
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  32. The latest Gripens are aircraft compatible with a simple landing gear modification to interface with catapults and an arrestor hook to catch the cables. And iirc, unmodified Gripens has successfully landed and taken off from aircraft carriers already.
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  33.  @gort8203  for the aircraft not purpose built for highway STOL capacity, yes. The Gripen does not demand a reinforced road beyond what a regular Scania 600hp cargo hauler needs.
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  34. In addition to the things you mentioned, I think it would be prudent to legislate that the munitions manufacturers should keep the procurement administration informed of the types, qualities and proportions of raw materials and components required/1000units to produce the ammo for all weapons in and within ten years projected to enter service so that the defense forces can keep a buffer stockpile of those materials. I also would like to see, at least in my own country that the tooling for a complete production line of the most used type of ammunition in each weapon system to be likewise procured and stored in a climate controlled protected location so that production capacity can be rapidly expanded regardless of the limits of private buisness practices.
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  35. ​ @nattygsbord  🤣 sounds like you had some weird nightmares last night my friend... While the field uniforms of all the Nordic countries will be the same in the cut and quality, each country will still be retaining our respective national camouflage patterns afaik.
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  36. Because we've had no other way to maintain our soverignity since the 1630ies...
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  37. ​ @interstellarsurfer  your Z armband is showing...
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  38. ​​ @TheClanAdventures  your Z armband is showing too...
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  39. ​ @V4zz33  Vadim, you need to stop mixing poison mushrooms with your vodka. It's making you hallucinate.
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  40.  @Farweasel  Actual Attrition is what causes the virtual attrition in the first place.
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  41. US design based licence built engines... which means the US has a veto over SAABs export deals. Same with the Viggen and Draken before it.
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  42. And for NATO, that should be a highly useful complimentary capability to the already existing assets and tactical doctrines.
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  43. ​ @pogo1140  and 1 to 3 sorties per day are rookie numbers compared to what the SAAB AJ37 and JAS39 are doctrinally designed for, using public highways as turnaround bases for intact aircraft. 😁
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  44.  @SilvanaDil  adding on readying spaces to already existing suitable roads in central and eastern Europe as well as replacing existing street lights and sign posts along those stretches with hinged base equivalents as well as modular safety barriers that can be shifted by unlocking them using a pneumatic wrench and a pallet truck would be an option for enabling the dispersal system. As a Swede, I'd say the Gripen is best integrated as a just-behind-the-engagement-zone compliment to the heavier, longer ranged assets of the current NATO airforces. Especially with the Gripens extensive top of the line networked sensor and EW capability and beyond average reliable availiability as it would allow dispersed Gripens to provide a multirole QRF element close to the engagement zone without vulnerable loitering in a contested airspace while the more maintenance hungry twin engine aircraft of other NATO countries can focus on engaging in depth against enemy bases, supply centers, AWACS, SIGINT higher level SEAD and long range attack aircraft.
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  45. Yes, Putin is mad as a rabies infected street dog.
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  46.  @davidmcintyre8145  it was caused more by good ol' queen Vic pitting her children and grandchildren against eachother through playing favourites and gaslighting while ensuring that they married into the rulership of the other European great monarchies of the time...
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  47. So you are trying to tell me that they are operating a flying B17G and haven't paid for the roughly 4000 $200 each ATF Destructive device tax stamps required to keep it fully loaded with ordnance and .50 HEI/APHEI/AP-T belts? 😱😅
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  48. Go check the Red Flag exercise results of the last two decades.
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  49.  @andreashansson7637  Same here, though I was assigned as a radio specialist (03-04)
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  50.  @LRRPFco52  if Swedish pilots are so bad, why do they so regularily wipe the floor with, the allegedly, "more elite" NATO pilots in Red Flag exercises?
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