Word: viggen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense effort. The company has built about 90% of its country's 700-plane jet air force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build 800 Saab-designed Viggen multipurpose jet fighters, a force that will form Sweden's main line of defense during the 1970s. The Viggen project will be the largest industrial undertaking in Sweden's history, involving an expenditure of $1.6 billion over a twelve-year period...
Profits in Jets. Viggen will bring new prosperity to the already thriving 28-year-old company. Last week Saab announced that its 1964 sales rose to $221 million, its earnings to more than $3.8 million, both new records. Auto sales, which account for about 60% of the company's revenues, increased to a record 43,011 units, are expected to climb to 50,000 this year. Saab is still producing and profiting from its Draken-35 jet fighters, the current mainstay of the Swedish air force, and the piston-engine Safir trainers that are used by Sweden and five...
...into manufacturing autos in 1949 have more recently been applied to missiles. The company produces U.S. Falcon air-to-air missiles under license from Hughes Aircraft, is developing coastal defense and ship-to-ship missiles and an advanced air-to-ground missile system that will be installed on the Viggen. Experience gained in designing miniature computers for aircraft enabled Saab to take off in another direction. In the past two years, it has sold Saab-designed commercial computers at prices ranging from $300,000 to $1,000,000, built others for use in its own plants. Other Saab sidelines: trucks...
Saab's designers have come up with an unusual configuration for the Viggen. To obtain both maximum efficiency at full throttle aloft and the slow landing speed needed for the short makeshift runways, Saab Chief Designer Erik Bratt, 46, turned to a design used at the time of the Wright brothers, but seldom since. Bratt has placed a canard-a nose wing with adjustable flaps-in front of the Viggen's main delta wing. The canard will help the Viggen make tighter turns-especially at supersonic speeds-and will slow it rapidly for landings...
Bratt's plane, which will be ready for flight testing two years from now, promises to be a bonanza for a large part of Swedish industry. Though the Swedish air force has traditionally acted as its own prime contractor on planes, Saab will perform that role for the Viggen and is now letting out subcontracts to 1,500 other Swedish firms. L. M. Ericsson, Sweden's aggressive manufacturer of telephone equipment, will be responsible for the Viggen's radar, Standard Radio (a Swedish subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph) will make the operations control system, and Svenska...