SEPECAT Jaguar

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Type Description - Primary Variants

• Jaguar A
• A = Appui (support). Single-seat all-weather tactical strike, ground-attack fighter version for the French Air Force.
  A cantilever shoulder-wing monoplane, the wing features anhedral of 3° and sweepback 40° at quarter-chord. The construction is an all-metal two-spar torsion-box structure, the skin of which is machined from solid aluminium alloy, with integral stiffeners. The main portion is built as single unit, with three-point attachment to each side of the fuselage. The wing is fitted with hydraulically operated full-span double-slotted trailing-edge flaps, and the outer panels fitted with a slats which also gives effect of extended-chord leading-edge. There are no conventional ailerons, lateral control being by two-section spoilers, forward of outer flap on each wing, in association, at low speeds, with differential tailplane.
  The fuselage is also an all-metal structure, mainly aluminium, built in three main units and making use of sandwich panels and, around the cockpit(s), honeycomb panels, as well as local use of titanium alloy in engine bay area. Two door-type airbrakes are fitted under rear fuselage, immediately aft of each main-wheel well. There is an enclosed cockpit for the pilot, with rearward-hinged canopy and Martin-Baker Mk.4 ejection seat. Lateral-type, fixed-geometry air intakes are located on each side of fuselage aft of cockpit, mounted high on the fuselage, reducing risk of foreign object ingestion on rough fields, and had fixed inlets. Fuel is in six tanks, one in each wing and four in fuselage, with provision for carrying three auxiliary drop-tanks, each of 1,200 litres (264 Imp gallons) capacity, on fuselage and inboard wing pylons.The Jaguar A is equipped for in-flight refuelling, with a retractable probe forward of the cockpit on the starboard side.
  The tail unit is a cantilever all-metal two-spar structure, covered with aluminium alloy sandwich panels, the rudder, horizontal outer panels and trailing-edge of tailplane having a honeycomb core.Sweepback at quarter-chord is 40° on horizontal, 43° on vertical surfaces. The all-moving slab-type tailplane has 10° of anhedral, and the two halves can operate differentially to supplement the spoilers. There are no separate elevators.
  The Messier-Hispano-Bugatti built retractable tricycle undercarriage has Dunlop wheels and lowpressure tyres for rough-field operation, and features hydraulic retraction, with oleo-pneumatic shock-absorbers. Forward-retracting main units each have twin wheels that pivot during retraction to stow horizontally in the bottom of fuselage. There is a single rearward-retracting nosewheel. Anti-skid units and arrester hook standard, along with an Irvin brake parachute housed in fuselage tailcone.
  Avionics include VHF/UHF radio, VOR/ILS and IFF; Tacan with Crouzet Type 90 navigation indicator with vector adder; SFIM 250-1 twin-gyro inertial platform with two SFIM 810 all-attitude roll and pitch spherical indicators; SFIM 511 directional compass; Jaeger ELDIA air data system with Jaeger altitude indicator; CSF RL 50Pj incidence probe with angle of attack indicator; CSF 121 fire control sighting unit with weapon selector and adaptor for sighting head camera; an EMD Decca RDN 72 Doppler radar, Crouzet Type 90 navigation computer with target selector, CFTH passive radar warning (ECM) detector, CSF 31 weapon aiming computer, a Dassault fire control computer for Martel anti-radar missiles and a CSF laser rangefinder. Provision for the addition to these basic installations of such other items as terrain-following radar or sighting equipment for low light level targets.About six Jaguar As in each French squadron have an Omera 40 panoramic camera installed under the nosecone to give 180° horizon-to-horizon coverage. The final 30 Jaguar As for France carry an ATLIS (Automatic Tracking Laser Illumination System) pod.
  Internal armament comprised two 30 mm DEFA 553 cannon in the lower fuselage aft of cockpit. Externally, there is one stores attachment point on fuselage centreline and two under each wing. Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk.101 turbofan powerplants rated at 5,1 15 lb.st dry and 7,305 lb.st with afterburning, but the Adour 101 was quickly replaced by the Adour 102 variant, with the same thrust levels but a modified afterburner system.

• Jaguar E
• E = École (school). Two-seat training version for the French Air Force.
  Structure and systems, aft of cockpit, are identical for single and two-seat versions. Forward, an elongated nose section to accommodate separate and divided cockpits for instructor and student in tandem beneath a large bubble canopy featuring individual rearward-hinged canopies. The aft section of the cockpit was raised by 15 in. to permit better visibility for the instructor. Compared to the Jaguar A, the Jaguar E is fitted with more basic avionics. These include VHF/UHF radio, VOR/ILS and IFF; Tacan with Crouzet Type 90 navigation indicator; SFIM 153-6 twin-gyro inertial platform with two SFIM 810 all-attitude roll and pitch spherical indicators; SFIM 511 directional compass; Jaeger ELDIA air data system with Jaeger altitude indicator; CSF RL 50Pj incidence probe with angle of attack indicator; CSF 121 fire control sighting unit with weapon selector and adaptor for sighting head camera. It also had no in-flight refuelling capability. Armament was the same as the Jaguar A. Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk.102 turbofan powerplants rated at 5,1 15 lb.st dry and 7,305 lb.st with afterburning.

• Jaguar M
• M = Màrin (maritime). Single-Seat Navy Strike Fighter for the French Navy (Aeronavale).
  As Jaguar A with a reinforced airframe, an extendable twin nose wheel, single main wheels on strengthened undercarriage legs, a 5.5-G capable arrestor hook and catapult fittings under the lower forward fuselage. A Martin Baker Mk.9 ejection seat was fitted, instead of the Mk.4 fitted to the land-based versions. Cockpit windscreen washers, using jets of water mixed with de-icing fluid, were added to clear away salt water deposits. Avionics included a new navigation and attack system (Système de Navigation et d’Attaque, or SNA) and a gyroscopic navigation unit coupled with the Doppler radar.

• Jaguar S
• S = Strike. Single-seat all-weather tactical strike, ground-attack fighter version for the RAF.
  Structurally the same as the Jaguar A; early in the production run a Ferranti ARI 23231/3 laser ranger and marked target seeker (LRMTS) was added, which resulted in the particular appearance of the RAF single-seat Jaguars. On the avionics side, the Jaguar S was much more sophisticated and technically advanced than the Jaguar A, the central hub being the Marconi NAVWASS (NAVigation and Weapons Aiming Sub-System), capable of guiding the aircraft to a target for a single-pass attack without having to use a radar system that could be detected by the enemy. It consisted of the Marconi-Elliott Avionics Systems E3R three-gyro inertial platform; a projected map display; a navigation control-unit weapons-aiming mode selector; a hand controller and air data computer; the Sperry Gyroscope Divisions gyromagnetic compass and a Smiths Industries diffractive-optics head-up display (HUD), which used a low-light-level TV camera. Also installed was the Marconi-Elliott MCS 92CM computer, a horizontal situation indicator; ARI 23232 radar altimeter; ARI 23205/4 TACAN and a fin-mounted Ferranti ARI-18223 radar homing and warning receiver (RHWR).
  The cockpit featured a Martin-Baker Mk.9 ejection seat, rather than the Mk.4 of the Jaguar A. Internal armament comprised two 30 mm Aden cannon in the lower fuselage aft of cockpit. Externally, there was one stores attachment point on the fuselage centreline and two under each wing. Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk.102 turbofan powerplants rated at 5,115 lb.st dry and 7,305 lb.st with afterburning, replaced by Adour Mk 104 (5,320 lb.st dry and 8,040 lb.st with reheat) from 1978.

• Jaguar B
• B = Biplace. Two-seat training version for the Royal Air Force.
  Structurally similar to the French Jaguar E, but was designed from the outset to have a full operational capability. The avionics were identical to the single-seat version, though there was no laser ranger and marked target seeker (LRMTS) nor internal RWR, nor was it equipped for inflight refuelling. Internal armament consisted of only a single 30 mm Aden cannon in the lower fuselage aft of cockpit. Externall armament options were the same as the GR.1. Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk.102 turbofan powerplants rated at 5,115 lb.st dry and 7,305 lb.st with afterburning, replaced by Adour Mk 104 (5,320 lb.st dry and 8,040 lb.st with reheat) from 1978.

• Jaguar International
• Export version, with avionics and armament changes to suit the individual customer.

Jaguar A/S Specification
Span	Length	Height	Wing Area	Empty Wt	Max AUW	Max Speed*	Max Speed**	Range***	Service Ceiling
28 ft 6 in	55 ft 3 in	16 ft 1 in	260.3 sq ft	15432 lb	24149 lb	840 mph/ 730 kn	1056 mph/ 918 kn	760 mi	46000 ft
8.69 m	16.84 m	4.9 m	24.18 m2	7000 kg	10954 kg	1352 kph/ M 1.1	1699 kph/ M 1.6	1223 km	14021 m

* at sea level** at 36,000 ft.***Combat range, hi-lo-hi (with external fuel)

Type Description - UK Variants

• Jaguar GR.1
• Designation of Jaguar S in RAF service.

• Jaguar GR.1A
• Beginning in 1983, the original Elliott MCS 920M system was replaced by the smaller, lighter, more reliable and more accurate Ferranti PIN 1064 INAS (inertial navigation system) NAVWASS II. Aircraft were also provided with an increased weapons fit. This consisted of a Westinghouse ALQ-lOl jammer pod and a Phimat chaff dispenser mounted on their outer wing pylons, and two Tracor AN/ALE-4O flare dispensers scabbed onto the underside engine access panels, while provision was made to carry the AIM-9G Sidewinder AAM. Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 104 with 5,320 lb.st dry and 8,040 lb.st with reheat.

• Jaguar GR.1B
• Ten GR.1 aircraft modified under UOR 41/94 to carry thermal imaging airborne laser designator (TIALD). To permit day and night operation under varying weather conditions, TIALD was equipped with thermal imaging and a TV camera, which were mounted in a pod carried beneath the aircraft. The designator was integrated into the aircraft’s navigation and attack (nav/ attack) system to enable it to be directed and controlled, and the thermal or visual images were recorded by the infra-red recce recorder in the aircraft. Further upgrades included a hand controller to steer the TIALD turret, the MIL-STD 1553B digital avionics bus, an improved HUD and a flat-panel head-down multifunction display (MFD) with dimensions of 5 x 5 inches.

• Jaguar T.2
• Designation of Jaguar B in RAF service.

• Jaguar T.2A
• Jaguar T.2 updated to the same standard as the GR.1A.

• Jaguar T.2B
• Two aircraft modified under UOR 41/94 (see above) to serve as airborne TIALD developmental aircraft.

• Jaguar GR3
• GR.1A and GR.1B models upgraded to Jaguar 96 avionics system.
  The Jaguar 96 improvement program brought aircraft up to GR.1B standard, with TIALD support, an improved version the hand controller, the MIL-STD 1553B databus, and the new HUD. However, the head-down display was not fitted to all Jaguar 96 upgrades. The Jaguar 96 upgrade also added a new "hands on throttle and stick (HOTAS)" stick top; and an improved nav-attack system that integrated the FIN 1064 with a Rockwell Collins Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, plus a BASE TERPROM "terrain comparison" subsystem, which used a radar altimeter to obtain a terrain map and then matched the data to a library of known terrain. The TERPROM system also provided a "ground warning" capability, a useful feature for an aircraft that often flew at low level. A personal-computer-based mission planning system was used to define mission data for a particular sortie, with the data then downloaded to the Jaguar in a plug-in module.

• Jaguar GR.Mk 3A
• GR.3 model upgraded to Jaguar 97 avionics system.
  The Jaguar 97 program was an extension of the Jaguar 96 upgrade, and had the ability to use the Paveway III laser-guided bomb. Another enhancement was the fitting of the common rail launcher (CRL) on the overwing Sidewinder pylon. In the cockpit the MPCD was replaced by a GEC-Marconi portrait-format active matrix liquid crystal head-down display (AMLCD), with twenty-eight multi-function soft keys and excellent sunlight glare rejection. The AMLCD is better able to show the digital moving map and TIALD imagery, as well as other flight information than the MPCD. The Jaguar 97 also had a fully integrated Jaguar mission planner (IMP). The cockpit layout was compatible with night vision goggles (NVGs), along with support of a GEC-Marconi/Honeywell helmet-mounted sighting system (HMSS). The HMSS could be used to cue weapons for attacks on targets off the aircraft's line of flight, and also provided cues for the aircraft navigation system.

• Jaguar T.4
• Jaguar T.2A upgraded to Jaguar 96 avionics system.

• Jaguar T.4A
• Jaguar T.4 upgraded to Jaguar 97 avionics system, though they did not have the ability to use the HMSS.

• Jaguar ACT
• Jaguar Active Control Technology (ACT) demonstrator, a modified Jaguar S used to demonstrate reduced-stability / high-agility flight with a quadruple-redundant digital fly by wire (FBW) control system.

Type Description - Export Variants

Jaguar International ES Single-seat export version of the Jaguar S/GR.1A for Ecuador, retaining the LRMTS nose and the Marconi-Elliott NAVWASS equipment, and fitted with overwing missile launchers for carrying the Matra 550 Magic AAM. Marlin-Bakcr E9B ejection seats. Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 804 rated at 5,320 lb.st dry and 8,040 lb.st with afterburning.

Jaguar International EB Two-seat export version of the Jaguar B/T.2 for Ecuador. As the ES, but without the LRMTS nose.

Jaguar International IS Single-seat export version of the Jaguar S/GR.1A for India, named Shamsher in Indian service. The IS and IT aircraft have been produced in 7 batches:
Batch 1 machines were aircraft loaned by the RAF, being standard GR.1s, while India waited for new-build aircraft.
Batch 2 were new aircraft built by BAC Warton, and were basically to GR.1 standard. Both Batch 1 and Batch 2 used the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 804 powerplant.
Domestic Indian production began with Batch 3, continuing through Batches 4 and 5, and were fitted with the MIL-STD 1553B databus and featured a locally-produced avionics suite, the centerpiece being the Display Attack & Ranging Inertial Navigation (DARIN) system replacing NAVWASS, which had proven unreliable. DARIN incorporated a Head-Up Display / Weapons Aiming Computer (HUDWAC) system, used on the BAE Sea Harrier and featuring a wide-field HUD, a Combined Map & Electronic Display (COMED), used on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, and a French Sagem ULISS 82 Inertial Navigation System (INS). Two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 811 rated at 5,520 lb.st dry and 8,400 lb.st with afterburning.
Batch 7 aircraft (Batch 6 were all Jaguar IT) are fitted with the MIL-STD 1553B databus, modernized displays and processor, plus the DARIN II system, featuring replacement of the HUDWAC with an Israeli Elbit wide-angle HUD; replacement of the Sagem ULISS navigation system with a Sagem Sigma 95 navigation system, with ring-laser gyro INS and GPS receiver; replacement of COMED with a 5 x 5 MFD; a new LRMTS in a reprofiled nose' an Elta EL/L-8222 RF jammer, replacing the right cannon, with the gun port faired over; an Indian-made Tarang RWR; and an Israeli IAI Malat countermeasures dispenser system, built in India under license; a new autopilot, and twin mission computers built by HAL. New weapons were qualified in the wake of the DARIN II upgrade, including the Textron CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon and the MBDA ASRAAM heat-seeking air-to-air missile.

Jaguar International IT Two-seat export version of the Jaguar S/GR.1A for India, named Shamsher in Indian service. Three aircraft were produced as part of Batch 1, (defined under the Jaguar IS), loaned by the RAF, being standard T.2s, while India waited for new-build aircraft.
Batch 6 aircraft were built to a fully combat-operational standard for night attack, carrying the Israeli Rafael Litening targeting pod for that role. The Litening features a daylight CCD camera, a FLIR imager, and a boresighted laser; the back-seater works as a "weapons system officer" to direct precision-guided munitions, while the front-seater flies the plane.

Jaguar International IM A Hindustan Aeronautics Limited developed anti-shipping version of the Jaguar International IS and produced under Batches 4 and 5. These were the same as the IS, but didn't have the LRMTS, instead being fitted with the Thomson-CSF Agave radar for ship attack, and carrying the BAE Sea Eagle antishipping missile on the centerline pylon. The Agave was later replaced by the Elta EL/M-2052.

Jaguar MAX A Hindustan Aeronautics Limited development, Jaguar MAX (Mothership for Augmented Xploitation) primarily features an EL/M-2052 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar from Elta, an AESA-based wide-band jammer, a combined interrogator transponder, a flight management system, a configurable cockpit with a larger area display, a voice command system, a helmet-mounted display, an L-band datalink for long-range missions, a GAGAN/GPS/GLONASS-aided INS (with IRNSS optional), a software defined V/UHF radio, and modernised engines (optional). The aircraft can be configured with a Radar Targeting Pod (2 seat-variant), Laser Pod, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Pod and Electro-Optical (EO) Pod to meet various mission requirements.

Jaguar International SN Single-seat export version of the Jaguar S/GR.1A for Nigeria.

Jaguar International BN Two-seat export version of the Jaguar B/T.2 for Nigeria.

Jaguar International OS Single-seat export version of the Jaguar S/GR.1A for Oman.
SOAF Jaguars were fitted with the Ferranti LRMTS nose for the strike/attack role and were configured to carry air-to-air missiles for their secondary role of air defence. The first single-seaters were fitted with overwing launchers for the Matra 550 Magic AAMs, while the second delivery batch had adapted outboard underwing pylons to carry the AIM-9P Sidewinder. As in the case of RAF Jaguars, Oman’s surviving fleet of Jaguars received ‘96’ and ‘97’ upgrades, together with PIN 1064 nav/ attack systems and the GEC Marconi thermal imaging airborne laser designator (TIALD) system. The first batch featured two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 804 rated at 5,320 lb.st dry and 8,040 lb.st with afterburning, whereas the second batch were fitted with the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 811 rated at 5,520 lb.st dry and 8,400 lb.st with afterburning.

Jaguar International OB Two-seat export version of the Jaguar B/T.2 for Oman. Like the Jaguar OS, the OB was delivered as part of two batches. The two trainers in the second batch were unusual in featuring the ARI 18223 RWR and being fitted with French-style fixed flight refueling probes.

Projected Variants

P.69/1 Jaguar with modified avionics.

P.69/2 Jaguar with uprated Rolls Royce Ardour Stage 1 or 2 engines.

P.69/3 Jaguar with airframe developments and uprated Rolls Royce Ardour Stage 2 engines.

P.69/5 Jaguar with two Rolls Royce RB.109-34R or General Electric YJ-101 engines.

P.70/1 Jaguar VTOL development. One Rolls Royce Pegasus 15-03 or RB.422-04, both with PCB. Featured Jaguar S nose, Jaguar M nose leg. Rear fuselage, wing and tailplane were similar to existing Jaguar.

P.70/? Jaguar VTOL development. One Rolls Royce Pegasus 15-03 or RB.422-04, both with PCB. Featured Jaguar S nose, Jaguar M nose leg. Twin boom mounted tailplane

P.97 Jaguar with big wing, composite construction, FBW and either RB.409-07 or Adour 63.

Production Tables Index

SEPECAT Production For UK
SEPECAT Production For France
SEPECAT Production - Exports
Indian Production

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Production Summary

Notes

1. In Britain, AST.362 specified an advanced jet trainer which was also to serve as a light tactical strike aircraft. At the same time, the French government had a requirement for the "Ecole de Combat et Appui Tactique (ECAT), a trainer with secondary strike capabilities. These parallel requirements led to discussions between the two nations for a collaboration on a single aircraft to meet the needs of both, with a provisional joint specification released in March 1964, followed by a refined specification in October 1964. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on 17 May 1965, the governments of the two countries appointing an official Jaguar Management Committee to look after their interests; SEPECAT (French: Société Européenne de Production de l'avion Ecole de Combat et d'Appui Tactique - "European company for the production of a combat trainer and tactical support aircraft") was the complementary industrial organisation, established in May 1966 to handle the development and commercialization of the Jaguar. Organised as a Société Anonyme, the company was joint venture between the British Aircraft Corporation (British Aerospace from 29 April 1977) and Bréguet (Dassault from 1971).
   The French had already run a competition to decide on a home-grown type to meet ECAT, and selected the Breguet BR.121; Britain agreed that the design would continue to be based on that. However, the Br.121 design defined a machine of modest capability, and the British wanted something more formidable and pushed the project in that direction, with BAC changing the design to a bigger and more powerful aircraft. The RAF's requirement for supersonic performance had already required considerable redesign effort as the BR.121 was decidedly subsonic; new wings, reshaped fuselage and a higher rear cockpit were introduced, and engines with reheat were required. BAC were also almost completely re-arranged the internal layout so that, while there were obvious similarities in general arrangement, the BR.121 design was soon left behind. The French eventually went along with the revised design, and on 9 January 1968 the British and French governments signed a second MOU on the aircraft, by now named Jaguar, with both countries committing to the purchase of 200 aircraft each. The British would obtain 110 Jaguar B trainers and 90 single-seat Jaguar S strike fighters, while the AdA would obtain 75 Jaguar Es and 75 Jaguar As, and the Aeronavale would obtain 10 Jaguar Es and 40 examples of a carrier-capable Jaguar single-seat strike variant, the Jaguar M. The quantities were revised again in January 1970, with the British now ordering 165 Jaguar S strike fighters and only 35 Jaguar B trainers, while the French were to purchase 160 Jaguar As and 40 Jaguar Es, the Maritime variant being dropped.
   Design and production was to be split between the two counties; Breguet would design and build the nose, centre fuselage and undercarriage of the new trainer; BAC would get the intakes, rear fuselage, wings and tail. Production of components was split between the two, while the aircraft themselves would be assembled on two production lines; one in the UK and one in France. To avoid any duplication of work, each aircraft component had only one source.
2. To British Aerospace in August 1978 to be fitted with the Dowty-Boulton-Paul FBW system, as the "Jaguar Active Control Technology (ACT)" demonstrator, used to demonstrate reduced-stability / high-agility flight with a quadruple-redundant digital fly by wire (FBW) control system. The initial flight of the machine with the FBW system was on 20 October 1981. Ballast was then added to the tail to destabilize it, and in 1984 it was modified as the Active Control Technology testbed, with enlarged leading-edge extensions., performing its first flight in this configuration on 15 March 1984.
3. Beginning in February 1977 with airframe A81, Jaguar As received a Thomson/CSF CILAS TAV-38 laser rangefinder in an undernose blister fairing, and the window for the Omera 4O panoramic camera was moved to the rear of the fairing. Eventually this was fitted or retrofitted to all A models. The laser rangefinder, which had been developed for the Jaguar M, was also retrofitted to a small number of earlier aircraft. A131 to A160 were modified to carry the Thomson-CSF/Martin-Marietta ATLIS I and later ATLIS II targeting pod, designed for use in conjunction with the Aérospatiale AS.30L laser-guided missile or for the stand-off/selfdesignation of laser-guided bombs.
4. Jaguar IM, JM255, was converted to DARIN III standard, featuring a full glass cockpit, with three MFDs and a systems display, plus a new digital HUD -- as well as an Elbit-made head-mounted display, which was particularly needed to target the ASRAAM AAM; new indigenous mission computers and solid-state flight data recorders; along with an improved navigation system, radar altimeter, autopilot, and IFF, and most significantly, an Elta EL/M-2052 active electronically sanned array radar (AESA), replacing the Elta EL/M-2032. The first flight took place from Bengaluru in November 2012. Jaguar IS, JS164 was later converted as a second prototype, havingd its laser ranger and marked target seeker (LRMTS) replaced by the Elta EL/M-2052.

Production References

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