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The Saab J29 Tunnan entered service in 1951 and was well suited to serving in both fighter and fighter-bomber roles. The S29C was a reconnaissance variant – "S" deriving from the "spaning" or "scouting" in Swedish – and the 76 models built were fitted with five cameras mounted in a modified nose. H

The first swept-wing fighter built in Western Europe and a child of the Cold War, the Saab 29, sometimes also referred to as the J29, fittingly earned the moniker “Tunnan” or “Barrel.” Designed in the late 1940s, it was the second turbojet-powered combat aircraft developed in Sweden, after the Saab 21R.