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sweden joins nato its fighters could
accompany american bombers and
reconnaissance aircraft even during the
cold war when stockholm maintained a
policy of neutrality its fighters had
been known to provide escort to nato
aircraft there were times when swedish
pilots escorted the american lockheed sr
71 inches blackbird safely back to
germany after a fast spy pilot caused an
engine problem
an sr-71 has a problem the sr-71 gained
a reputation that no aircraft could
catch it and that it could even launch
missiles while a dozen were lost in
accidents no blackbird was shot by the
enemy only one aircraft has a difference
in achieving a radar lock in a fast
flying united states air force
reconnaissance aircraft this is a
swedish saab j-37 viggen in january 1986
swedish pilot for aloft held became the
first fighter pilot to achieve a radar
lock on the sr-71 launching a unique
frontal assault protocol that
successfully paved the way for blackbird
to fly and fully acquire a missile lock
prepared sr-71 held continued to achieve
five more successful
sr-71 interventions using unusual
tactics a year and a half later in june
1987 another blackbird piloted by
retired guilty khal
knoll and tom beltry encountered an
engine crash during a routine baltic
express flight over the neutral waters
of the baltic senior soviet territory
one of the powerful sr-71 turbofan
engines with additional combustion pratt
and whitney j58 one lost power and noel
and veltry were forced to fall to almost
25 000 feet above swedish airspace
where they were captured by a pair of
swedish fighters sag37 viggen
saab 37 to the rescue the swedes proved
to be patrons of the sr-71 and ensured
that no opportunistic soviet defense
pilot attempted to disrupt the spy plane
currently the soviet air force
maintained a squadron of high-speed
fighters mig-25pd
foxpat based in east germany and
regularly sent one of the migs to try to
capture the baltic express always
without success thanks to the actions of
swedish pilots the u.s air force
aircraft successfully returned to
friendly air no details of the mission
were announced more than 30 years had
passed by the end of 2017
finally on november 28 2017 at a special
ceremony in stockholm the united states
air force presented four swedish pilots
with air medals for their actions the
video of the ceremony was even posted
online at the pentagon during the
ceremony in 2017 the u.s air force mash
gene john williams u.s air forces in
europe and air forces africa commanders
mobilization assistant handed over air
medals to the swedish air force call
lars eric blagg mash
roger mahler mash
christopher schoberg and lt ho and mel
that day in 1987 showed us that in times
of serious disaster we can always trust
our colleagues in sweden williams said
at the ceremony while there is both
political risk and great physical risk
in terms of real risk there is no doubt
that you are involved in retaining
pilots that day in addition to the
medals the swedish pilots received a
picture showing their heroism and
gratitude from 2s are 71 pilots
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