Fighter Lands, Turns Around, and Takes Off in Under a Minute

The French will order it.

No the French just say they already had invented that concept way before the Swedes or anyone else.

Still is an awesome aircraft.

Guessing by the big bomb strapped under it, would it be safe to say that emergency landings are out of the question?

Maybe that's their incentive to blow up at least 1 object.

ben A: i'm geussing thats a external drop tank with extra feul, the name says it all: it's dropped when emty (in combat operatoins)or when in trouble.

1.) pilot lands

2.) the thought runs through his head,
"of, shit! I forgot to kill more people!"

3.) turns around and takes off to go and kill more people.

Sweden hasn't killed anyone in over 200 years.

gryt they are active in Afghanistan...

Gryt it's called a defence capability. The point is that you have this hardware to defend your country. OK so that's probably a difficult concept for a merkin to grasp, but there you go, the rest of the world is a funny place.

Of what utility is the ability to land, turn around and take off in less than 60 seconds? Can the platform be armed and gassed up while on the move? Plus- can it take off on such a short run when carrying a full load?

Tax dollars at work...

Scott-O the Swedes had seen what happened to the German fighters at the end of WW-2 when aircraft got destroyed just after landing. So they stipulated that their aircraft had to be able to get back into the air as fast as possible even with minimal fuel and armament to defend themselves against any attacks- This way they tried to maximise any chance of survival if even only some aircraft could get back into the sky to fight back.

Why is it anything to do with defence or the military on here brings out the people unable to get over themselves.

Its a neat plane doing a neat trick. Its cool! Just enjoy watching something for once...