SK37E in Lechfeld

[F16_Filur]

http://www.avpics.de/lffamp/viggen-elite05.wmv

Video done on 1. June of some SK37E Viggen during the ELITE Exercise at the Lechfeld Air Base in Germany.

[F16_Filur]

37 Viggen Free Flight

edit: flyttade de andra till Filmer/videosnuttar.

[Magnus]

Kul att se film då man själv är med..

[griffin]

Det förstår jag! Kul även om man inte var med! :D

[F16_Filur]

Ja, riktigt bra film. Saknar bara att att man inte fick se den första roten stiga ytterligare en fem skunder.

Undrade just vad ELITE stod för:

Each year, towards the end of May and the beginning of June, ELITE (ELectronic Warfare LIve Training Exercise) takes place in southern Germany. The counties of Baden-Württemberg and Bayern are the main areas of this international exercise that started in 1991 and grew to a very well-known and respected multinational one. This year the exercise consisted of both an air-part and a ground-part, which would come together at the 'Truppenübungsplatz (ground exercise area) Heuberg' between 27 May and 9 June 2005.

The air-part consisted of around seventy jet fighters, ten propeller aircraft and some twenty helicopters, hosted by the following airbases in Germany - at Neuburg Spanish Mirage F1s (of which one aircraft sadly crashed) and Belgian F-16s; at Lechfeld Italian Tornados, Turkish F-16s, Greek F-16s, Swedish Viggens (Sk37e) and a Saab 340 AEW; at Landsberg French C-160s and Polish CN-295s. At the Swiss base of Dubendorf were Finnish F-18s. Helicopters were based at Laupheim (Dutch Cougars, AH-64s and Belgian A109s). Homebase flyers were German Tornados and F-4s, French Mirage 2000s from Luxeuil, Swiss F-18s from Dubendorf and USAFE F-16s from Spangdahlem.
Flying two missions per day, the exercise started with some familiarisation flights to get the foreign aircrews acquainted to the German airfields, traffic control and regulations. It was the last official appearance of a Swedish Viggen at an international exercise, as all Viggens will be retired in September. Four Viggens participated in ELITE 2005, three in the well-known Swedish 'green-splinter-pattern' camouflage and one in an all-grey paint scheme. Unfortunately one of the Spanish Mirage F1s crashed after take-off, but without injury to the pilot.

During the exercise, the ground location 'Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg' was heavily attacked by participating ELITE aircraft. There were over a hundred different Electronic Counter Measurement (ECM) and Surface to Air Missile (SAM) sites located at the Heuberg from the ten participating ground forces, totalling 1,700 soldiers. Various systems like CROTALE (France), ROLAND (Germany), RAPIER (UK), GIRAFFE (Sweden), Patriot/Stinger (NL), SA-7 (Poland), etc., were located at the large fifty-square kilometer compound. Low-level limits were reduced to 500 feet (150m) for jets and 50 feet (15m) for helicopters, so all kind of realistic scenarios could be tested by both aircrews and groundcrews.

http://www.sentry.hangar1.net/trip05-02.html

[Magnus]

Efter att ha varit med nu 3 år i rad på Elite så kommer det nog kännas lite trist nästa vår då vi inte kommer åka.

Flottiljchefen som var nere och hälsade på lovade sin motsvarande tyska kollega att vi är tillbaka 2008 med 39D... jag tror det blir svårt men man ska sikta högt.

[F16_Filur]

Hur långt fram ligger planerna för de i din befattning att konvertera till 39-systemet Magnus?

[BEQ]

Sa inte FB04 att man kanske skulle ta tillbaka förmågan efter decennieskiftet?