Saab is most famous for its cars here in America, but the company actually started out making airplanes for the Swedish Air Force. Its best was the J35 Draken.

Indeed, even the Saab J35 Draken, a fighter plane manufactured in the ’50s (and retired from active service by its last operator – Austria – in 2005) could perform the Cobra as the following ...

The Saab J35 Draken is the ultimate case of "don't judge a book by its cover." A modern F22 Raptor looks fast and mean and it delivers. The Saab, on the other hand, ...

A Danish Saab J 35 in the Newark Air Museum in Nottinghamshire. Note the armaments visible, including rocket pods and rocket, air-to-air missile, and the ammunition belt for the cannon.

The Soviet Union kept its new tactic under wraps for years, but Sweden sorted it out on its own. The Saab J35 Draken could pull it off, as could the Saab 37, though it couldn't do so at speeds ...