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THE ANGLO-FRENCH FIGHTING FELINE
JAGUAR
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M
odern combat aircraft are inevitably
designed in response to very
specic requirements that are
identied by the potential customer.
It can take many years for a design to
develop and mature into precisely the type
of aircraft that is best suited to the
customer’s projected role, and sometimes
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that same role can change quite signicantly
while the development process is taking
place. However, it is far more unusual for the
design of an aircraft to inuence the very
role for which it is being developed. The
Jaguar was one such example of this process.
Created primarily in response to a British
requirement for an advanced trainer, the
Jaguar was built on politics, and the belief
that a multi-national project would foster
good relations between nations and
signicantly reduce the cost of design and
manufacture. The concept seemed sound,
but in reality it was slightly awed. Despite
this, the Jaguar became an aircraft that was
substantially dierent to the machine that
had rst been proposed, but it was one that
proved itself to be ideally suited to the needs
of both countries that created it. Even with a
background of politics and national
self-interest, the Jaguar emerged as a
supremely capable warplane.
Tim McLelland
Series Editor
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Acknowledgements: Thanks to the following individuals who
provided generous assistance in the creation of this
publication: Radek Simecek (www.sepecat.info), Stuart Thurtle,
Denis Calvert, Fred Martin, Godfrey Mangion, Richard Cooper,
Simon Watson (www.avition-bookshop.com), Phil Child, and
the sta of BAE’s Heritage department at Warton.
Photo: Steve Screech Cover photo: Richard Cooper
CONTENTS
3 CROSS CHANNEL CAT
1 FRANCE’S FELINE EMERGES
RAF Jaguars enter service and
Britain and France join forces to
create a collaborative combat aircraft export customers emerge
2 VIVE LE JAGUAR
The Jaguar enters service
with the Armee de l’Air
4 JAGUAR UP CLOSE
The Sepecat Jaguar in detail
5 JAGUAR INTERNATIONAL
Export success continues and the
RAF takes the Jaguar into conict
6 FLYING THE JAGUAR
A typical Jaguar training mission as
seen from the cockpit
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France’s Feline
emerges
Britain and France join forces
to create a collaborative
combat aircraft
Desert cat: Jaguar in its ultimate expression as an
immensely capable warplane, loaded with
weapons rails for free-fall and guided munitions,
together with electronic counter measures, and
self-protection aim-9 sidewinder missiles.
(Photo: Tim McLelland collection)
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The Breguet Br.1001 Taon
was designed to meet a Nato
requirement for a light strike
ghter. It was unsuccessful,
but the aircraft formed the
basis of subsequent designs
that were explored by
Breguet, eventually
culminating in the Jaguar.
Thus, the Jaguar’s true
origins can be traced way
back to 1953.
(Photos: Tim McLelland
collection)
U
nlike many of its warplane
contemporaries, the Jaguar’s origins
cannot be traced to a single source.
Jaguar was the result of two entirely separate
programmes that were being developed by
two very dierent countries, in pursuance of
two very dierent requirements. The rst
seeds of what eventually became the Jaguar
can be found in the late 1950s when Nato
issued a requirement for a lightweight,
single-seat attack ghter. This requirement
was based on a belief that Nato could
standardize on a single aircraft design that
would foster industrial co-operation, save a
considerable amount of cost, and develop
the concept of inter-operability between
Nato member countries. The idea was
plausible, although it was awed. The idea
was spawned by the knowledge that Warsaw
Pact countries were gradually standardizing
on a small number of Soviet aircraft designs,
even though it must have seemed clear to
any observer that the ways in which Warsaw
Pact countries operated their military air arms
could not be directly translated to Nato. It
didn’t take too long to illustrate that even
under the protection of one very eective
defensive umbrella, every Nato country was
very dierent to every other, with individual
military, industrial and political agendas. But
For the RAF, the Jaguar was originally conceived as a
replacement for the Gnat trainer. The Gnat was an agile
machine but it was a demanding aircraft to y and far too
small for many student pilots to comfortably t inside it.
The RAF also acknowledged that a bigger and faster
trainer would be required to enable students to
successfully transition onto modern combat aircraft.
(Photo: Aeroplane)
despite the shaky foundations on which it
was issued, various designs were proposed
for the Nato requirement, with one of the
most promising designs eventually emerging
from France. The Société des Ateliers
d’Aviation Louis Bréguet, better known as
Breguet Aviation, was a famous and greatly
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