Now, it is a 6-12 week wait on average, and with the Offices shut down to all but Life or death situations, a nightmare scenario for me.
Seeing as how employment Leeds to feeding myself and my kids, I may soon be calling it a Life and death situation and ask them to do it on that basis. Yet, I will, for now, show some restraint as the World situation far exceeds my "current’ situation, but will not forever as I do like to eat on occasion. 
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So… Did a strike on a ship with the rockets, practising my control of the Viggen.
As you can see, I am low, high alpha, a struck target in the background and some gentle tracers following me.
As it turns out, I setup my attack run quite terrible. I attacked the ship but had to do a wide turn to make my next waypoint staying a tad too long inside the radius of the AAA emplacement and stalling my engine as I pulled a high AOA with afterburners on. This screenshot is taken milliseconds before impacting a small garden.
Second go!
Running towards the popup point
Pop a pop!
Safety cover flipped up
Using my tactical camo to mask my exit between a local flock of residential buildings.
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Fun fact for all you Viggen lovers out there! When I was banging away codes into the CK37, which uses a ‘Adress > Input(command or data)’ structure it threw me back a few weeks to when I was listening to the “13 minutes to the Moon” podcast.
One episode is dedicated to the computer, the Apollo Guidance Computer. This is a fine machine that was quite revolutionary! So cue my surprise when I found a multitude of references to the CK 37 being the first airborne computer. Bit weird given that the Apollo computer definitely flew!
Well, the CK 37 beat the Apollo by about 3 years! How cool is that? You can definitely feel that they are related in the way input works, being quite simple but versatile nonetheless!
I’ve got half a mind to write a proper description of the CK 37, this machine deserves some love, though information is sparse.
Perhaps a lovely read for a Swedish members? Book 2e
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A quick google yielded this page on the CK37, which I found an interesting read:
Some data
Instruction speed: 200.000 instructions per sec.
Memory: 25 kbyte, a ferrite core memory.
Communication: 64 analogue in/out signals. 450 bits of binary in/out signals.
Size: 4 units, each between 11 and 16 kg. Power 600 watts.
Reliability: MTBF min. 200 hours during flight operation.
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Sweden also cornered the European market on Super Mario 
Actually that is also a pretty good story.
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Apparantly a youtube channel by a former viggen pilot. Some interesting technique!
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Had some time last evening to get some of the controls mapped for the Viggen. Planned on just going thought the startup sequence but decided to go for a quick taxi. Then, why not take off and try landing? Heck! Why not fly a little low level route around Nevada while I am at it!
This does not do it justice but in VR the cockpit is very nicely detailed.
The VR Kneeboard app with FunkyFrank’s kneeboard pages is pretty darn useful. It may be a required app for me from this point forward.
Up in the air and on the way to the first waypoint and already I am reviewing landing notes
Looking at the valley in front of me but from the radars perspective.
Found a Canadian Forces skin on the ED downloads site. Looking swell!
It may just be me but I kinda hate that the comms menu pops up when ATC responds. I was hitting F2 for an external view and ended up asking for navigation assistance.
And another of view of the skin.
Note: My screenshots are a little off center because I am using OBS to record the right eye … and it is somewhat hard to centre the image in one eye
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MP_Normady_Low_Level.miz (32.3 KB)
I put together a small SP/MP mission where you can train low level pop-up tactics in a high-threat environment. The mission is set on the Normandy map and features a number of suitable targets for the Viggen covered by a combination of SA-6, SA-8, SA-9, Shilkas and MANPADS. I suggest to survey your selected target on the F10 map first, find suitable ingress and egress routes and set up your waypoints.
The Normandy map goes really well with the Viggen because it offers sufficient ground clutter to provide cover at low level flight, even over flat terrain. Doing low level tactics over the barren Nevada or Persian Gulf terrain (or over the ocean) doesn’t really do anything useful in DCS other than for role-playing immersion, unless you happen to put an actual mountain between you and the threat. But the vegetation clutter on the Normandy map really makes treetop flight work when facing ground threats.
The mission also includes some naval targets to try anti-shipping, though there is not much tactics to it. As long as you stay out of range of the ships air defenses (which you can with anti-ship missiles) you can fly at any altitude you like. The real threat to the Viggen at sea would have been enemy fighters vectored by ships long range air search radars, so a low level approach below the radar horizon would have been used to evade. But you cannot set up this relationship in DCS. DCS ships do not have air search radars to begin with and cannot vector AI aircraft. And in any case, even an AI MIG-19 will detect look-down targets at 160 km distance, so there is nowhere to hide at low level against AI fighters in DCS. For an aircraft like the Viggen with its specific operational profile this is really disappointing.
Anyway, for this mission I have also thrown in a little air-air script I use in some of my other training missions, so you can spawn some enemy aircraft to dogfight with if you like.
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Anyone fancy getting together for a few strike missions over this weekend? I can do any time zone. I dont mind sitting up all night as I’m not back at work till Tuesday and want to get my Viggen on!
I cant wait to try a proper pop up attack as I have them visualized now and want to put them into practise
Thanks for this. I agree Normandy suits the viggen to a T
@Victork2 I will be happy to fly and it will probably be Sunday as the wife is taking a day off Saturday
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Cool, I’ll give you a bell Sunday and see what you are up to 
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Yeah…I’m kind of discovering that now. I’ve been working on a Viking Gulf mini-campaign. (Merc-flown Viggens helping insurgents on Siri, Abu Must and the two Tumb islands.) I’m thinking this is really not the terrain that the AJS-37 was built for. Even with the BK-90, it doesn’t have a standoff capability that is not well within a a SAM MEZ when you have nothing to hide behind. I’ll probably just post the first 3 missions by this weekend and call it quits.
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If you guys don’t mind talking me through some of the more esoteric shooty bang bang bits of the viggen, I’d be happy to join as well!
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Perhaps the terrain more inland, into Iran would suit lady viggen better, Kerman as a target, the islands as bases…
The trick in the Gulf is to fly lower. Evading and hiding from advanced threats is possible, and I’ve done it in PvP with the Viggen a couple times.
The problem is the launch envelopment for the BK-90. You can launch (drop) it from 50m AGL but it is a glide weapon. If you want some stand-off you really need to be around 200m AGL.
So there I was, roaring in on an SA-6 site at wave top level - I got the chaff going and the “Music On”…I pop up to about 180m AGL to shoot…and promptly get my wings shot off…
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It’s just me but in such a scenario, I’d pick the parachute bombs or the rocket pods to pop off the radar from low altitude rather than Bk90. If that’s the only choice, then getting within ~15km, pop up to 200m, launch, then dive back down.
I did the same strategy with the Bug in taking on a SA-6 site using Mk82 in high drag config, with a low altitude wavetop (this was Caucasus) until the last half mile, at which point I popped up and made my attack.
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Yeah, I would probably use the rockets. The key is to take out the FC radar and that is where the BK-90s come in. The first mission is ELINT Reece - see what radar is on the island. I’ve got that one set up to randomize between SA6 and SA11 -placed in different locations. Based on what you find in the ELINT, you pick either mission 2A or 2B. Depending on the mission, the aim point for target is either the SA6 or SA11.
I could have done the better with some scripting or in a scenario…I think…but. to get it done simply, I went with the “Pick a mission” concept.
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