Despite its speed, the Swedish Saab JA-37 Viggen once managed a missile lock on the Blackbird during an interception over the Baltic Sea, aided by routine SR-71 flight paths and skilled Swedish ...

Not only is today’s Nice Price or No Dice Saab a drop-top, but it also has performance chops, as it sports the reasonably rare Viggen package. Let’s see if that makes its price anything worth ...

This older airframe was in no way able to keep up with a Blackbird. But its successor, the Saab J-37 Viggen, had more advanced avionics that enabled it to get close to a Blackbird in flight.