'Nother odd munitions question: can anyone here tell me where Sweden’s Air Force got their aircraft-delivered gravity bombs during the 1950s? (1952-57, specifically.) The west? Russia? Home-built?
That’s…it, I think. Can anyone help?
I’m pretty sure they didn’t buy them from the Soviets. Since Sweden has a reasonably adequate munitions capability, my assumption was that they were domestically produced. Not that they used them for much, being neutral and all.
Killer. I don’t suppose anyone knows any place where I could find technical information on 'em, by any chance?
The thing is… We didn’t have any bombers during the 50’s. We had fighters specifically designed to defend Sweden from bombers flying at high altitude.
Dang, not even tactical fighter-bombers? The thing is, I’ve been doing some research on Saab’s A-36—the planned, but later cancelled bomber designed to deliver a Swedish nuclear weapon (also cancelled)—and I’m trying to get an idea of what the weapon casing MIGHT have looked like. (Some of the sources I’m seeing say the aircraft was intended to carry a single, just under one metric ton, bomb. For the fat lot of good that does me.)