Såtenäs, Swedish air force display 1975

Air force display at F 7 wing, Såtenäs, summer 1975

From left to right: A JA 37 prototype, a "SF 37", a Sk 37 (twice) and a AJ 37.

Viggen

SF 37 Viggen

This isn't really a reconnaissance SF 37 Viggen. It's a AJ 37 fitted with a SF 37 nose. Fooled a lot of people, both here and at Farnborough.
The pod under the starboard side of the fuselage carries electronic IR flashes, the port one IR flashes and cameras. The flash/camera pod has also been used by S 35E Drakens, on the port under fuselage position.

In addition to these two pods, usually a chaff/flare launcher may be carried under the port wing, a U22 jammer under the starboard.

This photo, from 1996, shows a real SF 37 nose, with camera sight, in close up.

SH 37 Viggen

This is, as far as I can remember, the maritime reconnaissance SH 37 prototype.

The camera pod houses a long range 600 mm forward looking camera, used to photograph ships pinpointed by the radar, which differs from the AJ 37 radar mainly by having recording equipment.

Sk 37 Viggen

A two seat Viggen. It's still assigned to Såtenäs, but in 1974-75 they were all reassigned to F 15 at Söderhamn where conversion training was carried out.

AJ 37 Viggen, weapons

This shows the different weapons carried by AJ 37 Viggens.

The rocket powered anti ship missile Saab 304, this version designated Rb 04E. It, and earlier versions were also used on A 32A Lansens.

The large green bombs are illumination flares, carried like the 120 blast/fragmentation bombs shown loaded on the AJ 37. The smaller bombs and rockets in front of them are practice bombs and rockets.

This shows how bombs are loaded on a Viggen. Not individually, but a carrier at a time in order to shorten the turn around time.

ECM pod

This is the U22 jammer pod, also known as "KA" (Kapsel typ A, pod type A).
The chaff/flare launcher pod usually carried under the other wing is known as "KB", and was also used on reconnaissance S 35E Drakens.

Air to air missiles

This Skyflash was shown on the JA 37 prototype.

This is the proposed Saab 372 IR missile, which was later cancelled in favour of AIM-9L.

S 35E Draken

Here, a reconnaissance S 35E Draken shows the cameras in its nose.

Hkp 2 Alouette II

The Alouette II was used as a search and rescue helicopter.

Today, you can find this example in the Swedish Air Force Museum.

Lansen

A 32A Lansen

This is a collection of the weapons used by A 32A Lansens.

The rockets are 135 mm ground attack rockets, the bombs under the wings are 250 kg, on the ground are 120 kg and 500 kg bombs. The large tank like thing is a 800(?) litre napalm bomb.

The missile is the same type of Rb 04E anti ship missile used by Viggens.

S 32C Lansen

The reconnaissance version of had both cameras for photo missions and radar for maritime surveillance.

J 32D Lansen

By this time, Lansen was retired as a fighter, but is served as ECM aggressor (J 32E) and target towing aircraft, J 32D, here shown together with two typical towed targets.

When towing targets, dummy bombs are carried as counter weights under the wing opposite the cable pod.

Sk 60

At this time, the Sk 60 was the secondary trainer in air force. Nowadays, it functions both as primary and secondary trainer.

Shown here is the Sk 60C light ground attack/reconnaissance version.

Sk 61 Bulldog

At this time, the Scottish Aviation Bulldog was the primary trainer in the Swedish air force.

Photos by me, late summer 1975.
Document last modified 1996 Nov 07 by Urban Fredriksson

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