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SAAB 37 Viggen

365 points  8.8 years ago

The Saab 37 Viggen ("Thunderbolt", ambiguous with ?"Tufted duck") is a Swedish single-seat, single-engine, short-medium range combat aircraft, manufactured between 1970 and 1990.

Altough this design lacks the turnable canards of the 39 Gripen(aka Pigpen) it still has quite the impressive turnrate for a delta wing aircraft.
Unlike the real Viggen that is armed with a 30 mm Oerlikon KCA cannon, this plane is instead armed with 2 .50 cals due to trouble with correct proportion(The minigu´n looks just ridiculous).

The current action groups are (1) Drop fueltank, (4) Fire inner wing missiles, and (5) Fire outer wing missiles.

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 26.0ft (7.9m)
  • Length 33.2ft (10.1m)
  • Height 13.0ft (4.0m)
  • Empty Weight 6,879lbs (3,120kg)
  • Loaded Weight 11,961lbs (5,425kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 2.818
  • Wing Loading 45.9lbs/ft2 (224.2kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 260.5ft2 (24.2m2)
  • Drag Points 2441

Parts

  • Number of Parts 64
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 327