It's Living proudly with Indian airforce only now...All other countries have retired it.. And it's completely a new aircraft now...after its Darin III upgrade..with an Elta ELM 2052 aesa radar and new avionics and newer weapons systems.. The Indian airforce calls it Deep penetrator strike aircraft.
I love the relic one we have at Manston Airport Museum, Kent. I pass by it frequently and look keenly at it unless I see The EE Lightning parked nearby!
I have a real soft spot for the Jaguar. My love of planes comes from spending many an afternoon watching the Jaguars takeoff and land at RAF Colitishall. I do miss that base.
Good old summer times in the late 70s when I could watch Belgian Mirage III, German, Dutch and Belgian F-104 and US, German and British F-4, the latter from RAF Wildenrath. I loved both the "boom" and the brutal "roar" when they went either supersonic or passed by low.
We have so very FEW alternative bases still operational now ~ Thanks to George Osbourne & David Cameron closing most airfield to save a few quid ................... You can bet your 🐓IF we get into more than a shouting match with the gentlemen East of Ukraine they *won't miss* our remaining bases because there are so *very few* of them to target.
It's Living proudly with Indian airforce now...All other countries have retired it.. And it's completely a new aircraft now...after its Darin III upgrade..with an Elta ELM 2052 aesa radar and new avionics and newer weapons systems.. The Indian airforce calls it Deep penetrator strike aircraft. It will serve until 2030's.
One of HMG's oddest decisions IMO was to scrap the Jaguar without deploying them to Afghanistan or Iraq when they had quite a few hours still left on the airframes. They could have been pretty much run into the ground in environments they were designed for and the Treasury would not have been out of pocket.
The Mitsubishi F-1 (derived from the T-2 trainer) is very similar in appearance to the SEPECAT Jaguar. The Japanese considered buying a license to build the Jaguar in country but developed their own plane. It retired around the same time as the Jaguar. The planes were worn out! The direct replacement for the F-1 was the Mitsubishi F-2, nicknamed "Viper Zero." It's basically an enlarged Block 50 F-16 derivative.
@@babboon5764 Jaguar M failed its Carrier Trials Massive!!! All of the orders for the M were actually built as A's for the AdA, so the number of actual aircraft originally ordered were built.
Thanks for your efforts your videos are always interesting. I would have thought that adapting the Jaguar for Aircraft carrier use was a no brainer it already has huge undercarriage and designed for short field operations.
The undercart on this variant really gives it a Dassault Mirage F-1 look. I wouldn't have thought the original knuckled talon like undercarriage was at all weak to begin with.
the jaguar in general is a classic forgotten aircraft though an intresting one. remember the ones being based in brüggen. quite impressive in the air though looking somehow clumsy on the ground. i think it deserves that attention, so great video again!
While stationed at Memmingen, West Germany (1978-1981) a Few Jags flew in and stayed for a week or so. Got to tour the aircraft and got to know the ground crew. It was a blast. USAF 1975-1998.
Similar to the A-7 Corsair, both hard working, cost effective and accomplished ground attack aircraft overshadowed by the F-4/Lightning/F-15/16 glamour jets.
Great to see some footage of HKM Karel Doorman. She was on station when my father was a NL Marine during the Dutch New Guinea war against Indonesia. Later on she was sold to Argentina. As you pointed out , she was formerly a British vessel. Funny how these things turn out..
France never pulled out of NATO, only out of NATO command. And they developed a work around after De Gauelle died. French forces were de facto under NATO command in forward deployment like Germany. It was revealed to the French public in the late 80s.
Never heard of navalised Jaguar for the French Navy. I though they always had Super Etendards. The regular Jags saw a lot of action during Desert Storm.
not as uncommon as you might think for companies not wanting to sell a product under certain circumstances. Low volume with added costs for specialization? Extra regulatory requirements the company isn't prepared to deal with? Not having the expertise to develop their product for an application? trying to focus efforts on a more profitable market opportunity? etc.
And the Sea RADAR that made the combination with the Exochet so deadly. The Jaguar could not even carry it because of the weight and had no RADAR to aim it.
It's comical that the UK had land based catapults for testing carrier aircraft, and now due to cutbacks we don't even have catapults on the carriers anymore :P
Cutbacks have nothing to do with it. We haven't had catapults on carriers since the 1970s because we use VSTOL aircraft and catapults break down whereas ramps don't.
@@B-A-L The whole reason we went to VSTOL from Catapults was so we could use/build much cheaper carriers (using more expensive but less capable planes in the process). As a general rule CATOBAR > STOBAR > STOVL. This is why the USA use CATOBAR (and we did prior to cutbacks) and why China, Russia, etc have dreams of upgrading to CATOBAR in the future. It's also the reason why France use STOBAR and why China/India upgraded their STOVL carriers to STOBAR (and why we have repeatedly looked at upgrading our new carriers to CATOBAR or STOBAR but each time decided it was too expensive).
Great looking aircraft. Watching the video I did think that the Royal Navy could have used it. But as they had the Buccaneer the Jaguar would not really have a role.
Once more a brilliant video, Ed! I've watched every one of your videos and you never disappoint... As ever, a great choice of subject matter with well researched content, and all presented with aplomb!
Thanks Ed. One of my favourite moments is witnessing two Jaguars coming in to Exeter air day early in the morning and beating up rhe airfield for 5minutes ......sensential ! (about 1982 ish ) ironically the very last airshow !
Excellent choice. In an alternative universe. The Anglo French project would be the Mirage F1 but powered by a Rolls Royce Spey turbofan as fitted to the F4K/M Phantoms.
It was gorgeous 1:72 model kit of Jaguar, produced by FROG and later by NOVO in Soviet Union. She was one of most beautiful aircraft for me, avail to build at that time (1980s).😍
Issues listed in this video aren't the only ones. Another was that the aircraft needed afterburner on the catapult which overheated the deflector panels, although they tried to solve the issue by welding 20mm plates on them.
There is a joke in the Indian airforce that jaguar only takes off because of Earth's curvature, still they love it tho. Bizarre that the French wanted a carrier plane out of it.
good point re single engine vs twin engine, never liked the etendard with the weird turkey neck thing under the nose. I have read though that the Jag was pretty underpowered, and the only reason it could take off at all was because the earth was round ;-)
Hi Ed, I was recently at a military museum in Bucharest. They had a obscure I.A.R aircraft that looked like a La5. It had a weird blue paint scheme. They also built their own weird version of the jaguar that was part of the Romanian airport. You can see some of the pictures if you go look at the pictures on google.
@@jackroutledge352 it's actually not the IAR 80. They had a IAR 80 right next to this La5 looking machine. I'm really annoyed with myself that I didn't take a picture of it.
It's a Yak11SC trainer. It is a radial engined single seater. The fuselage profile is very similar to the Yak3 (from which the Yak11 was developed). It is quite a rarity without the distinctive extended canopy of the usual dual seat Yak11 variants.
It might sound ironic to settle for a single engine design at first but if you judge that you cannot land at sea on a single engine, it's still preferable to only have a single engine since 2 engines doubles the risk of failure (a risk which which infamously materialized with the Yak-38).
I always like to wonder if the Jaguar M had been adopted, and if the UK had retained a conventional aircraft carrier capability (by building the cancelled CVA-01), could the Jaguar M have been taken on by the Fleet Air Arm as well? The land-based Jaguar gave excellent service with the RAF.
As the FAA already had the Buccaneer II it's unlikely that they would have adopted it although it would have opened up some interesting options for cross-deck operations
The F-4M Spey Phantoms were purchased in 1964, so by the time the Jaguar M was in prototype form Britain would have already something better in service. Not to mention the Admiralty had plans for improved avionics for the Buccaneer. AFVG was also planned to be carrier-capable though, and may have been useful as both a Phantom and Buccaneer replacement.
Probably a stupid question but the Jaguar has only been out of sevice for a decade or so??, What happens to all those Jags?, i could think of a country that'd love some fast ground strike aircraft that can take off from rough ground.
All the British ones were scrapped, despite the RAF having spent most of the 1990s using and abusing the Urgent Operational Requirements system to get them comprehensively upgraded...🙄
@@harryspeakup8452 Oh that's interesting. Any idea how many, and how many have been (presumably) rendered unflyable by being used as instructional airframes?
@@MrHws5mp Butt load of them at Cosford, most are GR 1A's in RAF Germany Squadron Markings that haven't flown in nearly 40 years. The GR 3A's they have last flew in 2007 and have not had their engines run since 2016. GR 3's were almost life ex on airframe life when the aircraft was canned.
at the time Marine Nationale could have opted for the naval carrier borne A-6F Intruder (Block II) maritime multi role ground attack fighter . . . although it didn't have any internal cannon, but a provision was there to arm the A-6F with an internal cannon should it be necessary . . .
A great video. These French flying machines are absolutely magnifique and beautiful. The Jaguar seems like a lighter version of the Aardvark. Did it have a comparable terrain following radar suite?
French Jaguar As had a very basic avionics fit. British Jaguar Es and export Jaguar Internationals had a much better fit, with an inertial nav/attack system and a Laser Rangefinder/Marked Target Seeker. The Indian Jaguar Ms had an Agave radar (same as the Super Etendard, ironically enough) so that they could find ships and fire Sea Eagle missiles at them. This wasn't a terrain-following radar like you got in the F-111 or Tornado though.
I love the Jaguar my first metal airplane was the Jag. It was a Corgi or Dinky toy. Now I always wanted a 1/48th scale plastic model of it. I have no luck finding one
The twin-safety issue is a bit of a moot point. The Jaguar was never a hot-rod & had a comparatively low TWR, especially when taking-off with a heavy combat load. Moreover, it's wing-loading (despite possessing double-slotted flaps & full-span slats) was high for a naval aircraft intended to operate from small-carriers. Both factors meant it would have needed both engines to be operating correctly for it fly safely in such a scenario. Because both engines would have been needed there was double the chance of engine failure causing the loss of the aircraft compared to a single-engine type - I.E. it had two points of failure instead of just one. Even when lightly loaded, such as during approach & landing, the Jaguar would have been a handful as it was particularly prone to handling problems flying on one engine at low-speed, which is a somewhat less than desirable trait for an aircraft operating off a small aircraft-carrier.
Can't think of a worse choice for carrier work, it might of took off in a heavy sea with the pointy end pointing up, I doubt it could have stopped falling towards the deck if it had to go around. Little engines, little wings, I love the Jag for what it could do, but there was lots it couldn't do.
It made hundreds of landings and take-offs, both clean and loaded, and never crashed. It is right there on the video you just watched. What you wrote make no sense.
Indian Air Force still flies Jaguar. IAF absolutely loves it. Recently Hindustan Aeronautics came up with Jaguar Max upgrade package that includes a large area display and Israeli AESA radar to name a few. However Jaguar's service days with IAF are numbered.
A bit like the Buccaneer: a complete dog below 300 knots, but once you're up to speed and so long as you maintain energy, an absolute delight to throw around over 300 knots
A company buys out a rival and shuts down in product. Not exactly unknown. Company promises their product under development will be cheaper than product being considered, but turns out more expensive. Not exactly unknown.
As far as I am aware, the Super Etendard was transonic when fully loaded and all types of Jaguar were supersonic.. so they chose a less capable aircraft
Jaguars had a very short combat range so the use of supersonic speeds on combat missions would have been unlikely considering deployment at sea meant carrying extra weight (drop tanks meant less armaments carried so less mission capacity). Etendards have a bigger wing area and Radar. Jaguars were in essence an excellent battlefield strike aircraft but too compromised for carrier strike. Hence the British didn't pursue the 'Sea' variant and preferred their Buccaneers.
@@dcanmore They would have only gone supersonic over target, just like the land based version. I would have suspected that fuel tanks would be carried on most operations, as they would only need one or two weapons for the task. One tank under the fuselage with one weapon under each wing, or - most likely - one weapon under the fuselage and fuel tanks on the wing pylon. The Super Etendard only carried one Exocet.
Would a navalised Mirage F-1M not have been better than the Jaguar M? More power, better handling and could have replaced both the F-5 and the Entendard over time.
Hmm, interesting how a jet with those small wings could safely land on a pretty short deck. Not to mention how it would land with a payload. The Jaguar was a very good low altitude attack aircraft for it's time (at least before the Tornado) but that was because it's smaller wings made it faster on the deck. I mean it is not a deltawing but still a lot of wingload. If they would have made a version with a wider wing and a lower max speed, that would have probably made it better suited for carrier ops, not to mention more agile...
High wing loading was one of the issues with operating this thing off a ship (plus the use of Spoilers for low speed roll control). A bigger wing would have made the aircraft better, but the extra drag would have made it very subsonic.
Interesting counterfactual scenario: in 1982, an Argentine Jaguar-M squadron, based at Port Stanley, has multiple roles: launching Exocets, bombing/strafing smaller vessels, intercepting Harriers, and ground attack/CAS after British landings. Could have made a big difference - given that in the real world, Super Etendards and Skyhawks based on the mainland made the war, in the words of one UK general "a close run thing".
@*Uncle Joe* Not at all; in fact, the real world Argentine Skyhawk force, wielding "dumb bombs" and home-brewed retarders, were arguably a bigger problem for the Brits than the Exocet (not many of which were actually available or acquired by Argentina anyway). As an aside, Joe, I recall a RAN staff officer commenting, just after the Falklands War, that had Argentina had the combined assets of the ADF, it might well have defeated that particular British task force (although of course, that was probably not going to be the end of the matter).
It doesn't make sense though, with Dassault owning Bréguet the company's in a win-win situation, they're selling whatever the French navy is buying? There's more to the story than that je pense..
The Jaguar was a vastly more capable jet than the Super Etendard, with higher top speed, longer range, and nearly double the the payload. Even accounting for slight performance losses due to added weight from the carrier adaptations, the Jaguar M seems like it would've been a huge upgrade for the French Navy.
Correct me uf im wrong but i thought the CVN-65 "Enterprise" was part of the "Nimitz" class...if im wrong i will be the first to put my hands up and admit im wrong.
@@damien5748 I think it was kinda sorta an experiment - first nuclear carrier. But yeah, it was also going to be the first of a class. I guess lessons learnt building her led them in another direction. Not sure.
It’s a real shame, as the Jaguar was a real beauty. I especially liked the look of the radar equipped Indian variants. It’s sad the way the defence industry fought amongst themselves so much in that 50s-70s period of amalgamation. Some great aircraft manufacturers were lost, despite having strong products.
Well done on awesome vid👍very interesting history n not well known part of history👍any nation going for Skyhawk not bad jet for its size but lack decent radar compare to land base jets. But after Skyhawk was F18A too big of jet for Majestic aircraft carriers but would have interesting to Jaguar M offer to RAN if French did go with Jaguar M.
dunno, it was pretty rough on the yanks, too. i wouldn't have wanted to be on the deck of the forrestal in '67. a terrible accident and some very brave fire crews aboard that ship. 😔
Another factor not mentioned was that, since France had a strong nationalistic push to go "only French" for their military, the Jaguar was seen in disfavor as it was a cooperative effort with the British. The Super Etendard was pitched as a "completely French" aircraft, built solely in France, by the French and for the French. In fact, almost 40% of the Super Etendard was of foreign manufacture, with all the parts being shipped in and assembled by Dassault. This was hardly any less than the Jaguar M, which had much better performance in terms of speed, range, maneuverability, and payload capacity.
I wonder if it could have been purchased by the Indian Navy or not? If yes then a license would have been acquire to make them at Hindustan Aeronautics just like how they are able to produce Russian combat aircraft under license
Jaguars could operate from a roughly plowed field which makes me believe that start and landing speed was no issue. The wings aren't too small because it was a - relative - light aircraft.
@@ivancho5854 It was absolutely shite on Hot and High Runways. My Brother actually worked on them and did deployments with them to both Oman, Jorden and Arizona. He told me that the take off distances were massively long and the aircraft had to get really fast to get off the deck when it was hot and high.
The Super Etendard is a fine aircraft. However I do believe that the Sepecat Jaguar would have had more potential. However it was an orphan and Dassault was never going to nurture it the way it deserved.
The Super Etendard could do very little that an A4 Skyhawk couldn't, and at a much higher cost with no economy of scale whatsoever! As to the Jaguar, AFAIK it is still in service with the Indian Navy in the (ground-based) maritime attack role, with a radar fitted in its nose and AShCM's under its wings.
By this point the UK Government was committed to scrapping the conventional Royal Navy carrier (Ark Royal with Phantoms & Buccaneers) by the end of the decade and going over to the Invincibles (Sea Harriers & helos) with the Hermes as an intrerim Harrier-carrier.
@@MrHws5mp And the next UK government tried to phase out even those. If the Argentine junta had waited just one year to invade the Falklands, Hermes and the *brand-new* Invincible both would've already been sold. The junta's stupidity saved the Royal Navy from being destroyed by its own government.
@@RedXlV Yes, it wasn't helped by the RN making a hash of justifying the need for the Invincibles in a 1980 review, leaving John Nott, the then Defence Secretary, with the impression that all they really needed were towed array 'tugs' operating in the North Atlantic under RAF cover. He promptly resigned when the Falklands happened.
That's the first footage I've seen of the M - a beautiful aircraft whether land or sea variant.
When Britain and France get together and stop treating each other as rivals they do some great things like the Channel Tunnel, Concord and the Jaguar.
The Jag always was a beautiful aircraft, so sleek and purposeful looking. If one was to imagine a private sports jet, look no further. 🙂
It's Living proudly with Indian airforce only now...All other countries have retired it..
And it's completely a new aircraft now...after its Darin III upgrade..with an Elta ELM 2052 aesa radar and new avionics and newer weapons systems..
The Indian airforce calls it Deep penetrator strike aircraft.
@@rajatdani619 these aircraft would be perfect for the Ukraine Air Force 👍👍👍
I love the relic one we have at Manston Airport Museum, Kent. I pass by it frequently and look keenly at it unless I see The EE Lightning parked nearby!
@@claudebylion9932And who would pay for them?
I’m proud to say I got to sit in the cockpit of an operational Jaguar :)
I live in Rochefort! Thank you for making this video! I'll be sure to share it with the naval air museum staff!
Please do. I'll have to visit the museum one day.
I have a real soft spot for the Jaguar. My love of planes comes from spending many an afternoon watching the Jaguars takeoff and land at RAF Colitishall.
I do miss that base.
Good old summer times in the late 70s when I could watch Belgian Mirage III, German, Dutch and Belgian F-104 and US, German and British F-4, the latter from RAF Wildenrath. I loved both the "boom" and the brutal "roar" when they went either supersonic or passed by low.
We have so very FEW alternative bases still operational now ~
Thanks to George Osbourne & David Cameron closing most airfield to save a few quid ...................
You can bet your 🐓IF we get into more than a shouting match with the gentlemen East of Ukraine
they *won't miss* our remaining bases because there are so *very few* of them to target.
i remember them as a kid from farnborough air show. all the planes were loud, taking off but the jaguars actually hurt! 🙉😖🤕
It's Living proudly with Indian airforce now...All other countries have retired it..
And it's completely a new aircraft now...after its Darin III upgrade..with an Elta ELM 2052 aesa radar and new avionics and newer weapons systems..
The Indian airforce calls it Deep penetrator strike aircraft.
It will serve until 2030's.
One of HMG's oddest decisions IMO was to scrap the Jaguar without deploying them to Afghanistan or Iraq when they had quite a few hours still left on the airframes. They could have been pretty much run into the ground in environments they were designed for and the Treasury would not have been out of pocket.
The Mitsubishi F-1 (derived from the T-2 trainer) is very similar in appearance to the SEPECAT Jaguar. The Japanese considered buying a license to build the Jaguar in country but developed their own plane. It retired around the same time as the Jaguar. The planes were worn out!
The direct replacement for the F-1 was the Mitsubishi F-2, nicknamed "Viper Zero." It's basically an enlarged Block 50 F-16 derivative.
Never heard of the navalized Jaguar before. Thanks, Ed.
It's so funny that Dassault was also pushing for the adoption of the single-engine Super Etandard because of the engine issue....
Facts are unimportant when one is pitching to politicians.
"Oui, le pilote avec un Etendard et no reacteur simplement flappez eze arms..."
@@FallenPhoenix86 OUI! "Catch That Pigeon," _non_ ?
Welcome to the world of business, politics and bribery
Logic has Fk Hall to do with much of it.
@@babboon5764 Jaguar M failed its Carrier Trials Massive!!! All of the orders for the M were actually built as A's for the AdA, so the number of actual aircraft originally ordered were built.
3:44 this footage of the Jaguar off-roading is sick
One of my favourite cold war aircraft. I heard it wasnt always the easiest to fly but served the RAF for a long time which must say something.
Thanks for your efforts your videos are always interesting. I would have thought that adapting the Jaguar for Aircraft carrier use was a no brainer it already has huge undercarriage and designed for short field operations.
The undercart on this variant really gives it a Dassault Mirage F-1 look. I wouldn't have thought the original knuckled talon like undercarriage was at all weak to begin with.
the jaguar in general is a classic forgotten aircraft though an intresting one. remember the ones being based in brüggen. quite impressive in the air though looking somehow clumsy on the ground. i think it deserves that attention, so great video again!
While stationed at Memmingen, West Germany (1978-1981) a Few Jags flew in and stayed for a week or so. Got to tour the aircraft and got to know the ground crew. It was a blast. USAF 1975-1998.
@@patrickwalsh2884 what did the USAF fly at that time? F-15/16 already?
@@tomlobos2871 The base I was at was German and they flew f-104G's.
@@patrickwalsh2884 awsome.
Similar to the A-7 Corsair, both hard working, cost effective and accomplished ground attack aircraft overshadowed by the F-4/Lightning/F-15/16 glamour jets.
Great to see some footage of HKM Karel Doorman. She was on station when my father was a NL Marine during the Dutch New Guinea war against Indonesia. Later on she was sold to Argentina. As you pointed out , she was formerly a British vessel. Funny how these things turn out..
Love the 2CVs sneaking in to the video....
France never pulled out of NATO, only out of NATO command. And they developed a work around after De Gauelle died. French forces were de facto under NATO command in forward deployment like Germany. It was revealed to the French public in the late 80s.
Quality aviation video. Good subject and commentary, Thank you.
Great video, with some great footage! Thanks!
8:28 - Great point.
Thank you for this, Ed.
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Never heard of navalised Jaguar for the French Navy. I though they always had Super Etendards. The regular Jags saw a lot of action during Desert Storm.
not as uncommon as you might think for companies not wanting to sell a product under certain circumstances. Low volume with added costs for specialization? Extra regulatory requirements the company isn't prepared to deal with? Not having the expertise to develop their product for an application? trying to focus efforts on a more profitable market opportunity? etc.
The real reason for Dassailt not to support the Jaguar for the French Navy was that they had lost out on the programme that lead to the Jaguar.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Yep, it was now a product they owned, but one that their competitor had developed.
It wasn't the Super Etendard which was so potent, it was the Exocet it carried.
And the Sea RADAR that made the combination with the Exochet so deadly. The Jaguar could not even carry it because of the weight and had no RADAR to aim it.
@@WanderfalkeAT A fair point well made sir
@@WanderfalkeAT Indian Air Force had a variant of the Jag with the Agave radar and exocet.
It's comical that the UK had land based catapults for testing carrier aircraft, and now due to cutbacks we don't even have catapults on the carriers anymore :P
Cutbacks have nothing to do with it. We haven't had catapults on carriers since the 1970s because we use VSTOL aircraft and catapults break down whereas ramps don't.
@@B-A-L The whole reason we went to VSTOL from Catapults was so we could use/build much cheaper carriers (using more expensive but less capable planes in the process). As a general rule CATOBAR > STOBAR > STOVL. This is why the USA use CATOBAR (and we did prior to cutbacks) and why China, Russia, etc have dreams of upgrading to CATOBAR in the future. It's also the reason why France use STOBAR and why China/India upgraded their STOVL carriers to STOBAR (and why we have repeatedly looked at upgrading our new carriers to CATOBAR or STOBAR but each time decided it was too expensive).
Great looking aircraft. Watching the video I did think that the Royal Navy could have used it. But as they had the Buccaneer the Jaguar would not really have a role.
Once more a brilliant video, Ed! I've watched every one of your videos and you never disappoint... As ever, a great choice of subject matter with well researched content, and all presented with aplomb!
Thank you! Pleased to oblige.
Thanks Ed. One of my favourite moments is witnessing two Jaguars coming in to Exeter air day early in the morning and beating up rhe airfield for 5minutes ......sensential ! (about 1982 ish ) ironically the very last airshow !
Thank you, Ed, great job.
I'm a simple man, I see a video opening with footage of HMCS Bonaventure, I press like!
Thank you. i enjoyed that bit of military aviation history.
The image of the French cat and its one-word response were perfect.
My 2 first ever models, a jaguar and a Mirage F1
Excellent choice. In an alternative universe. The Anglo French project would be the Mirage F1 but powered by a Rolls Royce Spey turbofan as fitted to the F4K/M Phantoms.
It was gorgeous 1:72 model kit of Jaguar, produced by FROG and later by NOVO in Soviet Union. She was one of most beautiful aircraft for me, avail to build at that time (1980s).😍
Actually, Heller made a model of the Jaguar M naval version !
A slightly larger wing with better air brakes and also a hot-run option for remaining engine would have resolved the issues nicely
Issues listed in this video aren't the only ones. Another was that the aircraft needed afterburner on the catapult which overheated the deflector panels, although they tried to solve the issue by welding 20mm plates on them.
The Jaguar was unique, one of a very few that had hardpoints on top of the wings.
EE Lightning
The French never used them. Only the UK and India to my knowledge, and only for short range IR air to air Magic missiles.
@@joso5554Obviously. You can't have bombs on overwing pylons.
And try lifting an AS-30L, Sea Eagle Or Exocet onto an overwing pylon.
Not worth the drag.
I like the RAF pilots comment that you needed to use afterburner on the Jaguar to get it out of the hangar!
"Tales of French Military procurement" could be a channel all of it's own
There is a joke in the Indian airforce that jaguar only takes off because of Earth's curvature, still they love it tho. Bizarre that the French wanted a carrier plane out of it.
Another great "What If?" video. Thank you.
Thank you. All new to me.
good point re single engine vs twin engine, never liked the etendard with the weird turkey neck thing under the nose. I have read though that the Jag was pretty underpowered, and the only reason it could take off at all was because the earth was round ;-)
Hi Ed,
I was recently at a military museum in Bucharest. They had a obscure I.A.R aircraft that looked like a La5. It had a weird blue paint scheme. They also built their own weird version of the jaguar that was part of the Romanian airport. You can see some of the pictures if you go look at the pictures on google.
That'll be the IAR 80! Ed of course already has a video on it. Search for iar 80 in TH-cam - it's the first one that comes up.
Indeed!
And I think the jet, iirc, was the IAR-93, which was joint produced with Yugoslavia.
@@jackroutledge352 it's actually not the IAR 80. They had a IAR 80 right next to this La5 looking machine.
I'm really annoyed with myself that I didn't take a picture of it.
It's a Yak11SC trainer. It is a radial engined single seater. The fuselage profile is very similar to the Yak3 (from which the Yak11 was developed). It is quite a rarity without the distinctive extended canopy of the usual dual seat Yak11 variants.
It might sound ironic to settle for a single engine design at first but if you judge that you cannot land at sea on a single engine, it's still preferable to only have a single engine since 2 engines doubles the risk of failure (a risk which which infamously materialized with the Yak-38).
I always like to wonder if the Jaguar M had been adopted, and if the UK had retained a conventional aircraft carrier capability (by building the cancelled CVA-01), could the Jaguar M have been taken on by the Fleet Air Arm as well? The land-based Jaguar gave excellent service with the RAF.
As the FAA already had the Buccaneer II
it's unlikely that they would have adopted
it although it would have opened up some
interesting options for cross-deck operations
The F-4M Spey Phantoms were purchased in 1964, so by the time the Jaguar M was in prototype form Britain would have already something better in service. Not to mention the Admiralty had plans for improved avionics for the Buccaneer.
AFVG was also planned to be carrier-capable though, and may have been useful as both a Phantom and Buccaneer replacement.
Probably a stupid question but the Jaguar has only been out of sevice for a decade or so??, What happens to all those Jags?, i could think of a country that'd love some fast ground strike aircraft that can take off from rough ground.
All the British ones were scrapped, despite the RAF having spent most of the 1990s using and abusing the Urgent Operational Requirements system to get them comprehensively upgraded...🙄
@@MrHws5mp No they weren't. Many, many remain in storage at Cosford
@@harryspeakup8452 , thought a lot had been used as ground training airframes?
@@harryspeakup8452 Oh that's interesting. Any idea how many, and how many have been (presumably) rendered unflyable by being used as instructional airframes?
@@MrHws5mp Butt load of them at Cosford, most are GR 1A's in RAF Germany Squadron Markings that haven't flown in nearly 40 years. The GR 3A's they have last flew in 2007 and have not had their engines run since 2016. GR 3's were almost life ex on airframe life when the aircraft was canned.
at the time Marine Nationale could have opted for the naval carrier borne A-6F Intruder (Block II) maritime multi role ground attack fighter . . . although it didn't have any internal cannon, but a provision was there to arm the A-6F with an internal cannon should it be necessary . . .
A great video. These French flying machines are absolutely magnifique and beautiful. The Jaguar seems like a lighter version of the Aardvark. Did it have a comparable terrain following radar suite?
I think the only Jaguars with radar were Indian anti-ship Jags
@@chrismartin3197 Correct, all european Jaguars only had stuff like FLIR.
@@chrismartin3197 Thank you.
French Jaguar As had a very basic avionics fit. British Jaguar Es and export Jaguar Internationals had a much better fit, with an inertial nav/attack system and a Laser Rangefinder/Marked Target Seeker. The Indian Jaguar Ms had an Agave radar (same as the Super Etendard, ironically enough) so that they could find ships and fire Sea Eagle missiles at them. This wasn't a terrain-following radar like you got in the F-111 or Tornado though.
@@MrHws5mp India wanted an airborne anti-ship capability. The Exocet+Agave combination was proven and cheapest to adopt.
The wings were quite small for carrier aircraft.
I love the Jaguar my first metal airplane was the Jag. It was a Corgi or Dinky toy. Now I always wanted a 1/48th scale plastic model of it. I have no luck finding one
Heller used to make them, both ground based and naval versions.
Wouldn't be the first, or the last, time a aircraft manufacturer decides to sabotage a design that originated from a another company now would it..
Excellent! Fascinating. TFP.
Solid content
The twin-safety issue is a bit of a moot point. The Jaguar was never a hot-rod & had a comparatively low TWR, especially when taking-off with a heavy combat load. Moreover, it's wing-loading (despite possessing double-slotted flaps & full-span slats) was high for a naval aircraft intended to operate from small-carriers. Both factors meant it would have needed both engines to be operating correctly for it fly safely in such a scenario. Because both engines would have been needed there was double the chance of engine failure causing the loss of the aircraft compared to a single-engine type - I.E. it had two points of failure instead of just one. Even when lightly loaded, such as during approach & landing, the Jaguar would have been a handful as it was particularly prone to handling problems flying on one engine at low-speed, which is a somewhat less than desirable trait for an aircraft operating off a small aircraft-carrier.
Pairing the F-8 with the A-7:
😃 parts commonality!
😑 all your eggs in one basket
Jaguar must be one of the sleekest aircraft design out there.
I wonder if a navalized version of the Mirage F1 would have made sense and was considered.
Can't think of a worse choice for carrier work, it might of took off in a heavy sea with the pointy end pointing up, I doubt it could have stopped falling towards the deck if it had to go around.
Little engines, little wings, I love the Jag for what it could do, but there was lots it couldn't do.
I heard that the earth is round so to help it take off!
It made hundreds of landings and take-offs, both clean and loaded, and never crashed. It is right there on the video you just watched. What you wrote make no sense.
@@magoid The Test Pilots who flew the Carrier Trials absolutely slated it in the test reports. That's why it was canned!!!
Indian Air Force still flies Jaguar. IAF absolutely loves it. Recently Hindustan Aeronautics came up with Jaguar Max upgrade package that includes a large area display and Israeli AESA radar to name a few. However Jaguar's service days with IAF are numbered.
Interesting stuff.
Thanks
A bit like the Buccaneer: a complete dog below 300 knots, but once you're up to speed and so long as you maintain energy, an absolute delight to throw around over 300 knots
Never see much on the Jag was it mostly used as close air surport? Did it ever get any dog fights?
It would be nice to get another aircraft like the Jaguar.
Fascinating. I learnt something new today.
A company buys out a rival and shuts down in product. Not exactly unknown. Company promises their product under development will be cheaper than product being considered, but turns out more expensive. Not exactly unknown.
As far as I am aware, the Super Etendard was transonic when fully loaded and all types of Jaguar were supersonic.. so they chose a less capable aircraft
Jaguars had a very short combat range so the use of supersonic speeds on combat missions would have been unlikely considering deployment at sea meant carrying extra weight (drop tanks meant less armaments carried so less mission capacity). Etendards have a bigger wing area and Radar. Jaguars were in essence an excellent battlefield strike aircraft but too compromised for carrier strike. Hence the British didn't pursue the 'Sea' variant and preferred their Buccaneers.
@@dcanmore They would have only gone supersonic over target, just like the land based version. I would have suspected that fuel tanks would be carried on most operations, as they would only need one or two weapons for the task. One tank under the fuselage with one weapon under each wing, or - most likely - one weapon under the fuselage and fuel tanks on the wing pylon. The Super Etendard only carried one Exocet.
Getting a Jaguar M on to the deck of a Carrier was a nightmare!!! The Test Pilots reports from the Carrier trials absolutely slated the aircraft.
has there been any post war jets that remained on or under budget over their lifetime?
Would a navalised Mirage F-1M not have been better than the Jaguar M? More power, better handling and could have replaced both the F-5 and the Entendard over time.
Absolutely! And you could make it Multirole - Using it as Fighter, Interceptor and Bomber.
May have been cheaper than re-engining the MD Phantom for the British…
Jaguar was strike and therefore
comparable to the Buccaneer
whereas it was the Crusader that
could have potentially have been
a Phantom alternative
By the time the RAF retired the Jag it was an incredibly capable aircraft, just old.
They remind me of a trainer for the F104. Sleek with wings that look too small
Hmm, interesting how a jet with those small wings could safely land on a pretty short deck. Not to mention how it would land with a payload. The Jaguar was a very good low altitude attack aircraft for it's time (at least before the Tornado) but that was because it's smaller wings made it faster on the deck. I mean it is not a deltawing but still a lot of wingload. If they would have made a version with a wider wing and a lower max speed, that would have probably made it better suited for carrier ops, not to mention more agile...
High wing loading was one of the issues with operating this thing off a ship (plus the use of Spoilers for low speed roll control). A bigger wing would have made the aircraft better, but the extra drag would have made it very subsonic.
Frankly I could see the British buying this to serve alongside the Hawker-Siddeley HS.1197 Buccaneer as RN carrier strike aircraft
Why would they buy it ? They had their own Jaguars and would have adopted the design.
more importantly, there's only so much space on a carrier and how would a Jag M have been a better use of that space than an additional Buccaneer S.3?
@@harryspeakup8452 I guess you nailed it.
Simple the Buccaneer S.3 requires 2 crew whereas the Jaguar only needs 1
Interesting counterfactual scenario: in 1982, an Argentine Jaguar-M squadron, based at Port Stanley, has multiple roles: launching Exocets, bombing/strafing smaller vessels, intercepting Harriers, and ground attack/CAS after British landings. Could have made a big difference - given that in the real world, Super Etendards and Skyhawks based on the mainland made the war, in the words of one UK general "a close run thing".
@*Uncle Joe* Not at all; in fact, the real world Argentine Skyhawk force, wielding "dumb bombs" and home-brewed retarders, were arguably a bigger problem for the Brits than the Exocet (not many of which were actually available or acquired by Argentina anyway). As an aside, Joe, I recall a RAN staff officer commenting, just after the Falklands War, that had Argentina had the combined assets of the ADF, it might well have defeated that particular British task force (although of course, that was probably not going to be the end of the matter).
It doesn't make sense though, with Dassault owning Bréguet the company's in a win-win situation, they're selling whatever the French navy is buying? There's more to the story than that je pense..
No, it;s a well-documented tale. For Dassault, Breguet was the enemy and they bought it in order to eliminate their domestic-market competitor
Marcel Dassault had a huge ego. The Jaguar was a plane he had no role in designing.
Yes there is!!! The Jaguar M got slated by the guys testing it!!! It was a complete dog when trying to get it on the boat and that was what killed it.
The Jaguar was a vastly more capable jet than the Super Etendard, with higher top speed, longer range, and nearly double the the payload. Even accounting for slight performance losses due to added weight from the carrier adaptations, the Jaguar M seems like it would've been a huge upgrade for the French Navy.
First thing I thought was "Hey, it's only got one engine!"
At 5:26 a 2CV, so French. M.
The first few images are from Hr Ms Karel Doorman (former HMS Venerable) Dutch Marines.
A variant of the Mirage F1 would have been interesting.
Correct me uf im wrong but i thought the CVN-65 "Enterprise" was part of the "Nimitz" class...if im wrong i will be the first to put my hands up and admit im wrong.
Nope. Enterprise was a singleton. Not part of the Nimitz class
No, it was the lead ship of a 5 ship class of ships of which only the Enterprise was built.
@@MattVF thanks for the correction...so was there supposed to be an 'enterprise' class of ship?
@@neiloflongbeck5705 thank you for the correction,much appreciate it.👍
@@damien5748 I think it was kinda sorta an experiment - first nuclear carrier. But yeah, it was also going to be the first of a class. I guess lessons learnt building her led them in another direction. Not sure.
OK.. Am I the only person who noticed at 8:45 there was a EF2000 on the deck of a career?
was a rafale
French rafale-M the aircraft replaced the Entendard in French service.
@@robertgriffin662 was watching on my phone, now iv watched on TV I can see its a raf
@@zebadee277 cool
It’s a real shame, as the Jaguar was a real beauty. I especially liked the look of the radar equipped Indian variants. It’s sad the way the defence industry fought amongst themselves so much in that 50s-70s period of amalgamation. Some great aircraft manufacturers were lost, despite having strong products.
I was hoping that the yellow citroën would be blown across the airfield by the jet blast top gear style
You mean the tin snail?
@@owen368 the 2CV
@@randyhavard6084 Yep that the nickname for a 2CV tin snail seems very apt to me.
The unique position of the company making the plane not wanting it to be sold, ladies and gentlemen I give you, the French!
Did the Indian navy use this variant?
I always thought the Mirage F1 could have been developed into a carrier a/c
Nope. Wayyy too high approach speed for deck landing.
The indian Airforce still uses jaguars for maritime strike role.
They are called the Jaguar IM
Wow I never knew this maritime history of the Jag
Ahh! Politics and weapons development…usually the doom of the outstanding. Beautiful looking aircraft!
Let's combine the Jaguar M with the Indian DARIN III Upgrade.
Well done on awesome vid👍very interesting history n not well known part of history👍any nation going for Skyhawk not bad jet for its size but lack decent radar compare to land base jets. But after Skyhawk was F18A too big of jet for Majestic aircraft carriers but would have interesting to Jaguar M offer to RAN if French did go with Jaguar M.
Jaguar elegantly solved this dilemma : no radar onboard !
dunno, it was pretty rough on the yanks, too.
i wouldn't have wanted to be on the deck of the forrestal in '67.
a terrible accident and some very brave fire crews aboard that ship. 😔
Another factor not mentioned was that, since France had a strong nationalistic push to go "only French" for their military, the Jaguar was seen in disfavor as it was a cooperative effort with the British. The Super Etendard was pitched as a "completely French" aircraft, built solely in France, by the French and for the French.
In fact, almost 40% of the Super Etendard was of foreign manufacture, with all the parts being shipped in and assembled by Dassault. This was hardly any less than the Jaguar M, which had much better performance in terms of speed, range, maneuverability, and payload capacity.
I wonder if it could have been purchased by the Indian Navy or not? If yes then a license would have been acquire to make them at Hindustan Aeronautics just like how they are able to produce Russian combat aircraft under license
I love the Jag, but it has small wings, so wouldn't its landing speed have been rather high?
? Probably, don’t know if it had blown flaps or anything.
Jaguars could operate from a roughly plowed field which makes me believe that start and landing speed was no issue. The wings aren't too small because it was a - relative - light aircraft.
@@ottovonbismarck2443 Yea, I remember now. It was great at hot and high runways too. Excellent simple plane.
@@ivancho5854 It was absolutely shite on Hot and High Runways. My Brother actually worked on them and did deployments with them to both Oman, Jorden and Arizona. He told me that the take off distances were massively long and the aircraft had to get really fast to get off the deck when it was hot and high.
@@richardvernon317 Ok, I stand corrected. I must be confusing it with something else.
Thanks Richard.
The Super Etendard is a fine aircraft. However I do believe that the Sepecat Jaguar would have had more potential. However it was an orphan and Dassault was never going to nurture it the way it deserved.
The Super Etendard could do very little that an A4 Skyhawk couldn't, and at a much higher cost with no economy of scale whatsoever!
As to the Jaguar, AFAIK it is still in service with the Indian Navy in the (ground-based) maritime attack role, with a radar fitted in its nose and AShCM's under its wings.
@@DanielLLevy indeed but there's very good reasons to buy domestic.
But it could have been suitable for UK navy...what did they buy instead?
By this point the UK Government was committed to scrapping the conventional Royal Navy carrier (Ark Royal with Phantoms & Buccaneers) by the end of the decade and going over to the Invincibles (Sea Harriers & helos) with the Hermes as an intrerim Harrier-carrier.
@@MrHws5mpok , make sense.
At the time they had both Buccaneer and the Phantom. A less capable Jaguar would be superfluous.
@@MrHws5mp And the next UK government tried to phase out even those.
If the Argentine junta had waited just one year to invade the Falklands, Hermes and the *brand-new* Invincible both would've already been sold. The junta's stupidity saved the Royal Navy from being destroyed by its own government.
@@RedXlV Yes, it wasn't helped by the RN making a hash of justifying the need for the Invincibles in a 1980 review, leaving John Nott, the then Defence Secretary, with the impression that all they really needed were towed array 'tugs' operating in the North Atlantic under RAF cover. He promptly resigned when the Falklands happened.
I have hope that Tamiya will create a one in 1/48th scale
Would have been interesting how a Jaguar M would have fared at Top Gun. I mean already the Land based jag performed brilliantly at Red Flag.
My favourite fighter jets in the 80s
i dread to think what that wouldve been like with an engine out! better than the f35 but not much lol