The Super Etendard: infamous for its enemies

[Trotrodor 2,670]

Super Étendard

 

The Dassault Super-Étendard, is a french navy fighter/attack aircraft made to be able to be launch from french aircraft carrier.
Made to replace the french Etendard IVM and the F8 crusader, it was choosed over the first proposed Jaguar M (a franco-english navalize version of the Jaguar).
The Super Etendard is powered by an Atar 8K50 none afterburning engine and is equipped with a new Agave radar optimize for Air to Sea combat and made to be equipped with mordern weapon such as the AM-39 Exocet Missile.
The first prototype made it's first flight in 1974, while the first series aircraft made it's first flight in 1977.
It formaly enter service with the french army in 1978 on the aircraft carrier Clémenceau and Foch and latter on the Charles de Gaulle, and enter service with the Argentinian army in 1981.
Even tho it was specialize to do Air to sea mission it was also able to do ground attack, fire support, air combat, recon and even nuclear attack.
The Super Etendard is well know for it's services with the french army but also with Argentina where it acquiere his infamous status with it's Exocet missile.

 

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cut of the aircraft :

http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/super-etendard/images/super-etendard-0090.jpg

 

Why the Super Etendard :
The Super etendard could play a big role as a support aircraft for ground battle but also and probably most interestingly in naval battle. It is also able to defend itself with it's two 30 mm DEFA canon and it's two Matra Magic heat seeking missiles.

 

 

Specification :
General characteristics

    Crew: 1 pilot
    Length: 14.31 m (45 ft 11½ in)
    Wingspan: 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in)
    Height: 3.86 m (12 ft 8 in)
    Wing area: 28.4 m² (306.7 ft²)
    Empty weight: 6,500 kg (14,330 lb)
    Max. takeoff weight: 12,000 kg (26,455 lb)
    Powerplant: 1 × Snecma Atar 8K-50 turbojet, 49.0 kN (11,025 lbf)

Performance

    Maximum speed: 1203 km/h (651 knots, 749 mph)
    Range: 1,820 km (983 nmi, 1,130 mi)
    Combat radius: 850 km (460 nmi, 530 mi) with one AM39 Exocet missile one wing pylon and one drop tank on opposite pylon, hi-lo-hi profile
    Service ceiling: 13,700 m (44,900 ft)
    Rate of climb: 100 m/s (19,700 ft/min)
    Wing loading: 423 kg/m² (86.3 lb/ft²)
    Thrust/weight: 0.42

Armament

    Guns: 2× 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA 552 cannons with 125 rounds per gun
    Hardpoints: 4× underwing and 2× under-fuselage with a capacity of 2,100 kg (4,600 lb) maximum
    Rockets: 4× Matra rocket pods with 18× SNEB 68 mm rockets each
    Missiles:
        1× AM-39 Exocet Anti-shipping missile or
        1× Air-Sol Moyenne Portée nuclear armed missile or
        2× AS-30L or
        2× Matra Magic Air-to-air missile
    Bombs: Conventional unguided or laser-guided bombs, provision for 1 × AN-52 free-fall nuclear bomb, provision for "buddy" air refuelling pod.

 

French navy testing the Exocet :

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Sources :

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Super-Étendard

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&biw=1536&bih=728&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=G8MwXICEKbC8gwfkiaOIDw&q=super+etendard+missile&oq=super+etendard+missile&gs_l=img.3...25897.27311..27591...0.0..0.271.1504.0j4j4......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0j0i8i30j0i30j0i5i30.nc2nROy1scc#imgrc=ftqxP0KXiDYERM:

http://www.ffaa.net/aircraft/super-etendard/caracteristiques.htm

https://www.avionslegendaires.net/avion-militaire/dassault-super-etendard/

 

Edited January 5, 2019 by Trotrodor

[leroyonly 4,311]

Open for discussion. 

[Trotrodor 2,670]

Thank you !

[dotEXCEL 5,969]

many thanks m8
100% support this

@Trotrodor
http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/en/aircraft/france/dassault/superetendard/manuel-pilote-super-etendard-tome-1.html

the pilot manual

[Trotrodor 2,670]

9 minutes ago, dotEXCEL said:

many thanks m8
100% support this

@Trotrodor
http://www.avialogs.com/index.php/en/aircraft/france/dassault/superetendard/manuel-pilote-super-etendard-tome-1.html

the pilot manual

very nice indead !!

[Arghail 1,220]

So, my problem here, is that I read that the Super Étendard could reach 1550 km/h, the website of Dassault mentions 1420 km/h, and the english Wiki says 1200 km/h. I'm curious which one is the right one. Maybe that's a difference between the original and the Modernisé version ?

[Trotrodor 2,670]

28 minutes ago, Arghail said:

So, my problem here, is that I read that the Super Étendard could reach 1550 km/h, the website of Dassault mentions 1420 km/h, and the english Wiki says 1200 km/h. I'm curious which one is the right one. Maybe that's a difference between the original and the Modernisé version ?

As it is written in the manual of @dotEXCEL, the plane maximum speed in mach is 1.3, the manuel also says that the plane has no trouble reaching that speed. However it also say that the maximum speed in a steep dive is 650 Kt (which I translate for Knots and so 1203 km/H).

 

So I assume (but i'm not sure on that), that the maximum airspeed it can reach is 1203 km/H, but at high alt this refer to 1.3 mach).

Edited January 5, 2019 by Trotrodor

[gennaroita 113]

i cant wait for this !

[RanchSauce39 397]

with tier 6 great attacker for the French tree, though i hope it is preceded by the Entendard 4

Edited January 5, 2019 by RanchSauce39

[Admiral_Aruon 2,264]

On 05/01/2019 at 12:42, Trotrodor said:

As it is written in the manual of @dotEXCEL, the plane maximum speed in mach is 1.3, the manuel also says that the plane has no trouble reaching that speed. However it also say that the maximum speed in a steep dive is 650 Kt (which I translate for Knots and so 1203 km/H).

 

So I assume (but i'm not sure on that), that the maximum airspeed it can reach is 1203 km/H, but at high alt this refer to 1.3 mach).

 

interesting. just under MACH 1 at likely just above sea level but MACH 1.3 at high altitude puts it it a good spot vs the MiG-19PT and F-100D. i can +1 this.

[Trotrodor 2,670]

2 hours ago, Admiral_Aruon said:

 

interesting. just under MACH 1 at likely just above sea level but MACH 1.3 at high altitude puts it it a good spot vs the MiG-19PT and F-100D. i can +1 this.

Yeah, and with the 100m/s climb, it's better than a f100.

[dotEXCEL 5,969]

On 10/01/2019 at 11:34, Trotrodor said:

Yeah, and with the 100m/s climb, it's better than a f100.

but worse than the Mig-19

[Trotrodor 2,670]

3 hours ago, dotEXCEL said:

but worse than the Mig-19

the f100 seems to do quite well with the mig 19 right now ;D

[dotEXCEL 5,969]

2 hours ago, Trotrodor said:

the f100 seems to do quite well with the mig 19 right now ;D

ik, dont take it as a negative point... i meant it would fit the current meta

[Trotrodor 2,670]

1 hour ago, dotEXCEL said:

ik, dont take it as a negative point... i meant it would fit the current meta

no yeah of course

[Milocat 4,857]

+1.  Would be a great French tier 6 jet attack plane!

[Wilhuff_Tarkin_ 467]

+1

[Functor 230]

Salut,

 

Pour le OP: si tu regardes la page wiki : 

Vitesse maximale	1 560 km/h (Mach 1,3)

faudrait peut-etre changer quelque-chose dans tes specifications.

 

Otherwise I am surprised this has not been forwarded yet. Honestly prefer this plane to Jaguar. Beautiful-looking plane.

 

Edited June 22, 2019 by Functor

[Fireraid233 4,274]

+1

[MonkeyBussiness 1,228]

+1 , does someone have the spec of the Matra Magic Air-to-air missile ? especially the max g load

Edited July 31, 2019 by MonkeyBussiness

[Poussin_Pouipoui 883]

I’d love to see this one in game, alongside with the Jaguar to complete the modern line up. The dream 

 

I also would like to have this skin, buyable by GE in game or in a box on the market

[WellgunLegend 119]

With the new Mach 2 planes announced for next update, this would be a great 9.3 aircraft for the french, a bit better than a SMB2 or F86K but not that much, I would love to see it in game soon

[Z3r0_ 4,128]

France is going to need some supersonic planes to keep up with the F-4 and MiG-21/J-7.  Stuff like this and the Mirage III should help with that.

[AspandaIV 376]

11 hours ago, Z3r0_ said:

France is going to need some supersonic planes to keep up with the F-4 and MiG-21/J-7.  Stuff like this and the Mirage III should help with that.

The Super Etendard might keep up with the F-4 in the maneuverability department but it would struggle overall due to the massive performance gap between the Etendards and the F-4 even when you factor in the gunpods, tho it will definitely keep with the supersonics that are already in game and it will give the French more variety in terms for playstyle and in CAS

 

The Mirage III on the other hand might dominate the F-4C since the performance between the two aircraft are very similar however unlike the F-4C which has no built in guns making it rely on gunpods, rocket pods, AAM's or a combination of the 3 for offensive armaments, in effect causes a lot of drag and the performance of the F-4C suffers as a result. The Mirage III on the otherhand tho having significantly less rounds than the F-4C's cannonpods but still has more than twice as much ammo as the J-7's the Mirage's uses 2 DEFA's and it's built into the aircraft and also the Mirage III is significantly lighter than the F-4.

[CokeSpray 7,274]

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