Talk:Saab 37 Viggen

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I dispute that the Grippen is a 5th gen aircraft. It's more a 4th gen aicraft with some 5th gen capabilities. (mainly the BVR engagement capability) This is often referred to as 4.5 gen. The block 60+ F-16's also fits into this catagory. If it truely was a 5th gen aircraft, you'd have to add supermanuverability by the use of thrustvectoring or other means, and stealth capabilities.

- SAAB names Gripen as the first 5th gen aircraft. Different aircraft-manufacturers use different definitions of the generations and SAABs seem to be the most acurate, since according to SAABs US compeditors, the US have no 4th generation aircraft at all...

'Viggen' means 'Bolt'. It does not mean 'thunderbolt', the Swedish word for 'thunderbolt' would be 'åskvigg', and thus the aircraft would be called 'Åskviggen'.

Incorrect. A bolt is "bult" in Swedish. I'll change it back for clarification. Åskvigg and vigg are in this case synonym (a vigg is also a little duck but not in this case), the former being a tautology.

[edit] Renaming?

This article deals with all models of Viggen (AJ=Fighter/Attack, SK=Trainer, SF=Recce and SH=Maritime recce), and currently the article name suggests that the article only is dealing with the Fighter/Attack (AJ) version, should we need to rename the article to Saab 37 Viggen or possibly 37 Viggen? The same goes with the J 35 Draken article too, but to a lesser extent. --MoRsE 09:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)