aircraft/loadouts SEPECAT Jaguar A -Strike Fighter

[pieve 3,578]

                      France

 

SEPECAT Jaguar A

Jaguar A of EC II/7 "Provence" with the new French wrap around desert scheme of light brow and sand used in the Gulf War.

 

Despite the lack of a Radar and other advanced avionics systems, the Jaguar proved to be an excellent low-altitude aircraft

 

Introduction to SEPECAT Jaguar:

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In the 30 years since its introduction into front-line military service the SEPECAT Jaguar has given sterling front-line service to several air arms around the World. Whenever ir has been called into combat service it has shown excellent reliablilty as well as operatonal capabilities, not a bad testament to an aircraft originally intended purely as an advanced trainer for use by the Bristish and France air forces.

Its roots go back to a period when Great Britain and Armee de I'Air were looking for a new advanced trainer that would enter service by the end of the decade. This new design had to be stable enough for a fairly inexperienced pilot to adapt to with a minimum of problems, but be advanced enough to be a challenging step up from basic trainers such as the folland gnat and fouga magister onto front-line types.

The Bristish  needs had been grouped together under the Air Staff Target 362 ( AST362) which was put out to tender amongst the British aircraft manufactures. Several companies responded including the preston division of the British arcraft corporation which featured varieable geometry wings, indeed resembling what would look much akin to a late design, the Tornado. With stinging defense cuts by The British Labor Government, the development time and costs more than justified a swing wing aricraft, although following the cancellation of the  TSR.2 the British were very close  to purchasing the F-111 K for RAF service. The other option was to cut development costs by joining forces with the French aviation industry.

Althoug the main requirement for the French was for an advanced trainer, the ability to use the new aircraft as a lightweight combat aircraft would be an added bonus and this was taken into account when the French requirement was circulated around its own aviation companies. This requirement known as ECAT ( Ecole de Combate d"Appui Tactique or Tactical Combat Trainer) had the same response a in the UK with the various companies responding in differing degrees. one company stood head and shoulders above the rest with no less than five different versions of the same design.

The Breguet BR.121 series seemed to have covered every possible role for the aircraft wtih the BR.121A - Fighter-bomber, BR, 121B - a two seat version of the A, BR.121C - dedincated interceptor, BR.121E - advanced trainer and the BR.121P - reconnaissance version. It was this desing that would become the backbone of the Jaguar design albeitm with a few changes along the way.

The joint agreements were signed in 1965 although the talks had started over a year before, and as well as jointly developing the new aircraft, officially called the Jaguar now both nations would start work on a more advanced aircraft based upon the British Swing-Wing design, known as the AFVG (Anglo-French Variable Geometry) aircraft. Both nations were determined that the two  aircraft be seen as carefully split projects with much of the work balanced out between the two countries, even down to the choice of engines.

Both nations agreed to order 150 aircraft each with the RAF, and Royal Nvy, ordering only the two seat varieations, France would have a 50/50 split of 75 trainers and 75 sigles seat combat support aircraft. but just over the horizon the plans would come off the rails for the British. As well as the cancelled orders for combat aircraft; the Frence did a "U-turn" over the AFVG agreement by declaring the costs were too high. An odd and dubious statement considering that the funds originally intended for the AFVG were diverted into another independent project. in response to this sudden change in plans the British looked at how the could develop the concept and design into a frontline aricraft as well as trainer.

 

Successful collaboration

As a result of a 1965 Anglo-French requisition for an advanced STOL coach (Short Tke-off and Landing), the Jaguar is later converted into a powerful attack platform.

The first of the eight prototypes was a French aircraft with two crew members that flew on September 8, 1968, and each air force contracted the purchase of two hundred aircraft.

Jaguar prototype with the standard grey/green/light blue camouflage.

The firts prototype Jaguar was acually a two seater known to the Frence as a Jaguar 'E' and to the British as a 'B' Here E.01 taxies out for an early test flight. The white 308 is actually the aircraft's allocated number for the 1969 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. Also worth noting is the large distinctive ejection warning triangles just below the cockpit.

 

 

The Jaguar is an elegant fuselage aircraft with clean and somewhat angular lines, with a large vertical stabilizer. The fuselage has a long, pointed, chiseled nose, and the body widens to the rectangular air intakes and then tightens to the exhaust of the engines and empennage. Wings drawn at a 40-degree angle, high fuselage mount and 3-degree negative dihedral, are relatively short in extension, with the root beginning after the rectangular air intake ducts of the engines, placed on both sides of the fuselage in an elevated position, just behind the cockpit, with its top surfaces forming an extension of the wing and with a "dogtooth" between the inner and outer sections.

 

 

The engine hoods are positioned in front of and below the fully movable horizontal and vertical stabilizers of large dimensions and in pronounced negative dihedral, and below the exhaust fans just before the exhaust exits there are two ventral fins.

 

 

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In the cockpit, pressurized and air-conditioned, covered by a shell-style canopy with opening backwards in an elevated position, accentuating the nose sharpened, the pilot sits in a Martin Baker Mark 4 ejection seat, later upgraded to the Martin-Baker FB9 (zero zero).

 

 

The landing gear, tricycle picks up into the fuselage and the entire hydraulic system is redundant.

It was built primarily of aviation aluminum alloy, with the selective use of titanium, and designed to be easy to maintain in austere operating conditions, with no need for a ladder to reach most routine maintenance points. It had five internal fuel tanks at the front, center and rear of the fuselage and one on each wing, providing a total fuel capacity of 4180 liters.

 

 

Persian Gulf War

France has also committed military resources to the coalition; in October 1990, eight Jaguar A aircraft and several Dassault Mirage F1 CR reconnaissance aircraft were sent to the Middle East with the Mirages, which had more advanced avionics, acting as guides for the jaguars. Due to obsolete navigational systems being unable to provide the necessary accuracy, both French and British Jaguars were quickly modified with GPS receivers, RAF Tornadoes also needed to be adjusted to a lesser degree. The French Jaguar force in Saudi Arabia built up to a maximum of 28 aircraft, which carried out 615 combat missions, with a Jaguar damaged by an Iraqi land-to-air missile. Typical targets were Iraqi armored units, Scud missiles and naval vessels

 

On January 15, 1991, 12 French jaguars bombed Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait; three were damaged in the attack, but all returned to base. On January 26, RAF Jaguars and Tornadoes invaded several missile batteries from the Silkworm in Kuwait to encourage the perception of an imminent amphibious invasion to free the country. On the 30th, two RAF jaguars destroyed a Polnochny class landing ship with rockets and cannons. The Iraqi Republican Guard, entrenched on the Kuwaiti border with Saudi Arabia, underwent an intense intensive bombardment campaign for weeks to demoralize them, while the Allied Jaguars formed part of the delivery aircraft. The jaguars also performed a valuable reconnaissance of the combat area of the coalition forces. The jaguars of both nations were removed from the region in March 1991, at the end of Desert Storm.

 

 

French and Export Version

France has acquired 160 Jaguar A aircraft with one crew member and forty less-equipped Jaguar E aircraft with two crew members. The Jaguar A has Mk.102 engines, a lower-level avionics than the British aircraft and a 30mm DEFA 553 cannon. The Jaguar's ensembles were carried out between January 1972 and December 1981. By the end of 1999, the French Air Force had reduced the number of jaguars and twenty units of Jaguar A and E, respectively. All export aircraft were based on the Jaguar B / S. The Jaguar International prototype, which flew for the first time in 1974, had Mk.104 engines that offered 27% more thrust. The first Jaguar International Series was a Jaguar EB for Ecuador, which received ten Jaguar ES aircraft with one crew member and two Jaguar EB aircraft with two crew members in 1977 and then three Ex-Air Force Royal airplanes in 1991. As of March 1977 , Oman received ten Jaguar OS appliances with one crew member and two Jaguar OB with two crew members and a second similar batch was delivered in 1983 with MK.811 37.36 KN (8,400 lb st) engines; to these were Airplanes Ex- Royal Air Force with a crew and with two crew and in 1986-1989 the 21 surviving aircraft were modernized to the configuration GR.Mk 1A India received 116 Jaguar IS appliances with one crew member and fifteen Jaguar IT with two crew in mid-1999, which followed, including eight of the missiles. The last foreign customer was Nigeria, which received thirteen and eight Jaguar SN aircraft with crew and Jaguar BN with two crew members in 1984.

 

 

 

Specifications (Jaguar A)

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Crew: One

Length: 16.83 m (55 ft 2½ in)
Wingspan: 8.68 m (28 ft 6 in)
Height: 4.89 m (16 ft 0½ in)

 

Wing area: 24.18 m² (260.27 ft²)
Aspect ratio: 3.12:1
Empty weight: 7,000 kg (15,432 lb)
Loaded weight: 10,954 kg (24,149 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 15,700 kg (34,612 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca Adour Mk 102 turbofans
Dry thrust: 22.75 kN (5,115 lbf) each
Thrust with afterburner: 32.5 kN (7,305 lbf) each

Performance:

    Maximum speed: Mach 1.6 (1,699 km/h, 917 knots, 1,056 mph) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft)
    Combat radius: 908 km (490 nmi, 564 mi) (lo-lo-lo, external fuel)
    Ferry range: 3,524 km (1,902 nmi, 2,190 mi)
    Service ceiling: 14,000 m (45,900 ft)
    Climb to 9,145 m (30,000 ft): 1 min 30 sec

Armament:

Guns: 2× 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA cannons, 150 rounds/gun
Hardpoints: 5 (4× under-wing and 1× center-line) with a capacity of 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) and provisions to carry combinations of:
Rockets: 8× Matra rocket pods with 18× SNEB 68 mm rockets each
Missiles: AS.37 Martel anti-radar missiles or AS-30L laser guided air-to-ground missiles. 2× R550 Magic air-to-air missiles on underwing pylons
Bombs: various unguided or laser-guided bombs or 2× WE177A nuclear bombs 1× AN-52 nuclear bomb
 

Other: ECM protection pods, Reconnaissance Pod, ATLIS laser/electro-optical targeting pod, external drop tanks for extended range/loitering time

 

 

source:

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http://www.airvectors.net/avjag.html

https://www.avionslegendaires.net/2017/07/actu/larmee-de-lair-va-t-elle-offrir-31-jaguar-a-a-lindian-air-force/

http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/sepecat_jaguar.htm

 

Edited March 7, 2019 by pieve

[Princess_Pinch 5,625]

Open for discussion. 

[sh4d0w 1,693]

U got my support. +1

 

What's about the GR.1 , GR.2 and GR.3A versions for the U.K. techtree ?

[pieve 3,578]

3 hours ago, sh4d0w said:

U got my support. +1

 

What's about the GR.1 , GR.2 and GR.3A versions for the U.K. techtree ? 

I'm doing the British version yet, but it takes time to do

[TerikG2014 1,389]

29 minutes ago, pieve said:

 I'm doing the British version

Coool it's kinda like a babdy tornado

Edited January 11, 2019 by TerikG2014

[Trotrodor 2,670]

+1 very good under mach2 aircraft

[xxtdreaperxx 170]

+1 from me always loved the Jags 

 

[PantherAl 4,883]

We need all the Jags!

[dotEXCEL 5,969]

BIG +1

[RanchSauce39 397]

On 11/01/2019 at 06:55, sh4d0w said:

U got my support. +1

 

What's about the GR.1 , GR.2 and GR.3A versions for the U.K. techtree ?

 

funny enough the Uk versions  reciever more modernization ( reffering to GR3A)

 

 

Fitted with  a witth a radar warning receiver, Multifunction display ( glass cockpit) and a new  HUD.Depending on version added the Brits can ultimately get a better version than what the French have.

 

 

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however even if its just Jaguar A model  or UK GR1 model it would still have ( for its time) an advanced navigation suite due to having a projected moving map display

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by RanchSauce39

[Arghail 1,220]

Now that the T-2 is in the game, I guess the Jaguar becomes a relevant choice.

 

But about the R550 Magic, what's the spec of this missile? Like, the Gs it can pull out for example. How does it perform compared to an AIM9E ? Would it be far better, or is it rather balanced for this game?

 

Edited March 6, 2019 by Arghail

[Milocat 4,857]

+1, this would be a great high-tier attack plane for France and Britain!

[onemax9000 1,243]

+1 gib this now plz

[Wilhuff_Tarkin_ 467]

+1

[Nicolaser 2,024]

On 06/03/2019 at 03:25, Arghail said:

Now that the T-2 is in the game, I guess the Jaguar becomes a relevant choice.

 

But about the R550 Magic, what's the spec of this missile? Like, the Gs it can pull out for example. How does it perform compared to an AIM9E ? Would it be far better, or is it rather balanced for this game?

 

The first one can carry 6g according Wikipedia

The magic 2 is likely closer to aim 9l

[Arghail 1,220]

28 minutes ago, Nicolaser said:

The first one can carry 6g according Wikipedia

The magic 2 is likely closer to aim 9l

 

So it's closer to an AM9B. Well, that's a bit weak for a 70's missile, when you compare it to the concurrence.

[Nicolaser 2,024]

40 minutes ago, Arghail said:

 

So it's closer to an AM9B. Well, that's a bit weak for a 70's missile, when you compare it to the concurrence.

Well that's Wikipedia 

Edited March 8, 2019 by Nicolaser

[FouManchou 2,463]

@Arghail It's kind of hard to get data on the G's it can pull (I've read 135g lmao), but, what is pretty certain is that it is all-aspect and has a 10km range. That means that, compared to 1.87 missiles, it would pretty much be the best.

Add to that the listed top speed (Mach 3) which would mean over 1000 m/s at sea-level and 900 m/s at 10 000m. (compared to 800 m/s for those we have atm)
Magic apparently also tracks CO2 emissions (don't ask me how), so I would guess that means the "flying towards the sun" trick wouldn't be possible against it. Then again, I've never seen anyone fly towards the sun to dodge a missile, so there's that...

[Arghail 1,220]

39 minutes ago, FouManchou said:

@Arghail It's kind of hard to get data on the G's it can pull (I've read 135g lmao), but, what is pretty certain is that it is all-aspect and has a 10km range. That means that, compared to 1.87 missiles, it would pretty much be the best.

Add to that the listed top speed (Mach 3) which would mean over 1000 m/s at sea-level and 900 m/s at 10 000m. (compared to 800 m/s for those we have atm)
Magic apparently also tracks CO2 emissions (don't ask me how), so I would guess that means the "flying towards the sun" trick wouldn't be possible against it. Then again, I've never seen anyone fly towards the sun to dodge a missile, so there's that...

 

It's an interesting feature. I would need to find more infos on it though.

[Nicolaser 2,024]

9 hours ago, FouManchou said:

@Arghail It's kind of hard to get data on the G's it can pull (I've read 135g lmao), but, what is pretty certain is that it is all-aspect and has a 10km range. That means that, compared to 1.87 missiles, it would pretty much be the best.

Add to that the listed top speed (Mach 3) which would mean over 1000 m/s at sea-level and 900 m/s at 10 000m. (compared to 800 m/s for those we have atm)
Magic apparently also tracks CO2 emissions (don't ask me how), so I would guess that means the "flying towards the sun" trick wouldn't be possible against it. Then again, I've never seen anyone fly towards the sun to dodge a missile, so there's that...

Is that not the magic 2?

 

I think it's more 13.5g

[Kasukaru 2,164]

On 11/01/2019 at 13:39, Trotrodor said:

+1 very good under mach2 aircraft

Agreed. Although I understand that the Jaguar was only just sub or transsonic at low altitude with actual armament loaded (which is the realistic use of the aircraft).

Edited March 17, 2019 by Kasukaru

[Fireraid233 4,274]

T-2 has the same engines so about the same performance we could very well see this plane next patch.

[PaganMin_ 483]

No, no and again no!

First GB should get the Jaguar. And they are also in a desperate need of hight tier CAS. The Seah Hawk at 7.7 isn't high tier. The Hawker Hunter ground attacker is necessary to keep the british nation alive. Almost no one wants to play them anymore including myself. And that's not because I don't like the british nation it's because the game doesn't like the british nation.

 

First the Jaguar for GB and on a later update france can have it too.

Edited March 21, 2019 by DrEvil__

[Arghail 1,220]

59 minutes ago, DrEvil__ said:

No, no and again no!

First GB should get the Jaguar. And they are also in a desperate need of hight tier CAS. The Seah Hawk at 7.7 isn't high tier. The Hawker Hunter ground attacker is necessary to keep the british nation alive. Almost no one wants to play them anymore including myself. And that's not because I don't like the british nation it's because the game doesn't like the british nation.

 

First the Jaguar for GB and on a later update france can have it too.

 

yeah. Or, you know. Both countries can have it at the same time. Like with the Sea Hawk in the German tree. No need to get upset all of the sudden.

[PaganMin_ 483]

7 hours ago, Arghail said:

 

yeah. Or, you know. Both countries can have it at the same time. Like with the Sea Hawk in the German tree. No need to get upset all of the sudden.

I am highly against it. First GB and on a later update France. GB is already lacking on everything. There is a reason why nobody wants to play them anymore.

They did the same with the Mig-19. First soviet Russia and later Germany. Why should GB not get the same benefits? Because they are british?

Japan already got theirs first. It's pretty ridiculous that a nation who developed a plane is the latest to get it while everyone else is already having it. We now they hate GB but should make it at least not THAT obvious. Btw nobody cares about the Sea Hawk. It's a 7.7 plane which need 380.000 RP. Nope not gonna do that. Especially since there is already a similar plane with the Vampire on 7.3. They should better bring a 9.0 attacker with the abilities of a 9.0 plane which means the performances of a Hawker Hunter. US has it, France has it, Russia has it, Italy has it Japan has it.

Edited March 22, 2019 by DrEvil__