SEPECAT Jaguar | the beloved ground attack aircraft of France and the UK

We are investigating the Jaguar, the beautiful flying wild cat of the First Cold War. #jaguar #aviation #royalairforce

Due to some copyright issues, we had to remake and re-upload our SEPECAT Jaguar video.

What was the story behind the partnership between France and the UK to develop the Jaguar?
What difficulties were experienced in developing the aircraft?
Why did French and British pilots fall in love with the Jaguar later on, while they had not liked it at first?
What was the relationship of the Mitsubishi T-1 and F-2 to this aircraft?

00:00 Introduction
01:06 Programme history
04:28 General characteristics
05:47 Marketing
06:28 Former and current users
06:39 Specifications
07:50 Main differences between the variants
10:00 Mitsubishi T-2 & F-1
10:28 Combat experiences
12:50 Retirement

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[WeaponDetective]

Due to some copyright issues, we had to remake and re-upload our SEPECAT Jaguar video.

Please click the link to watch our other Weapon Legends videos

Please click the link to watch our other British Systems videos

Please click the link to watch our other French Systems videos

Please click the link to watch our other Weapon Legends-Air videos

[Aeronaut]

Despite it being extremely underpowered, it was actully very fast at low level and difficult to catch, it just couldn't turn very well without bleeding energy. Pilots have also descibed the cockpit as "an ergonomic slum". It's also been said that when fully loaded, it only got off the ground due to the curvature of the Earth. Despite all this, pilots absolutely loved it, and almost eveyone who flew it said it was their favourite aircraft that they ever flew.

[rasputinu]

The Indian Airforce still has high esteem for the Jaguar...no wonder they still operate it in its specified role...it is one of the most beautiful modern aircraft

[paleoph]

Jeremy Clarkson: "It's a Jaaag."

[chrisaskin]

I worked on Jaguars when I was in the RAF, 20 Sqn at Brüggen in Germany to be precise and I very much enjoyed it. It was one of the most beautiful of aircraft when it was airborne.

[spitfire]

I love the SEPECAT Jaguar, its a shame its coming to the twilight of its great career, great video thank you.

[thewalkingsketchbook]

Anglo-French cooperation in aviation has produced some amazing aircraft.
It’s a shame they don’t do more together.

[olivierpuyou]

The jaguar and the Concorde are good proof that when the English and the French forget their old quarrels they are capable of making very beautiful and talented planes.

If the United Kingdom had not voted for Brexit, it is with them that we would have had to make the 6th generation aircraft rather than with the Germans.
Another great missed opportunity, too bad.

Thank you for bringing this legend to life for a few minutes.

[amarjeetbadhani]

JAI HIND 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳
Very nice topic selected..after long time watching..interesting topic

[aaravtulsyan]

My favourite aircraft from the Indian Air Force. It was a legend during the 1999 Kargil War, conducting precise CAS support to the Indian Army on the Himalayan heights

[RJM]

A wonderful aircraft for the RAF in the UK I worked on some before at Boscombe Down. If the TSR2 had been kept the Jaguar would not have been needed in the RAF and UK.
Thank you for the video.

[petesheppard]

Thanks; this really is a very underrecognized aircraft--in the US at least.

[jerrymail]

One of the aircraft I loved the most in French Armée de l'air, and now it's gone 😥

[aniruddhamulay]

IAF has also integrated its fleet of SEPECAT Jaguar with the ASRAAM developed by MBDA UK replacing the R550 Magic II short range A2A missiles

[davidhunt]

It should be still flying !! Great aircraft ! It joins a long line of great aircraft no longer flying, the Hunter, the Buccaneer, the Jaguar, the Harrier, the Vulcan, the Victor, the Vixen .

[MsJoao]

I got to see the cockpit of one of those once... I was surprised at how spartan and analog the instrument panel was!

[well-blazeredman]

Good video. So, which had the better nav-attack system: the A-7D/E, with its radar, or the RAF Jaguar, with its LRMTS? I guess that the Jaguar had the edge in CAS but the A-7D/E was better on other tasks.

[mikehindson-evans]

Exceptional airframe, flying off the M55 motorway in the northwest of England.

[glacieractivity]

I vividly remember spotting these deep down in Norway's longest valley back in the mid-1980s while having a summer job as a surveillance assistant. First came a 4-ship of Norwegian still spanking new F-16 (probably flying air cover), then came 2 tree-skimming Tornado ground attack machines (first time I saw them IRL) followed by a 4-ship of Jaguars (potentially flying even lower than the Tornados) hauling a$$ up the Norwegian "valley of valleys" presumably heading up to the live fire bombing and artillery range at Dovrefjell.

For a fan-boy aged 16, who had spent a full week at the new F-16 332 squadron during the work-training week away from school the year before (yes I totally beat the system on that one) I was as giddy as giddy can be.

For obvious reasons, the young and light F-16A will always be the prettiest girl in the sky. The Jaguar is not far behind though- especially when doing what she was made for - tree-hugging like the most lethal eco-warrior imaginable. I also have a soft spot for the Swedish SAAB Viggen in its ground attack version (also because it was rare to see as I grew up in NATO and the Swedes were neutral. Back in the 80s when "my valley" was used for NATO low and high flying exercises, I got to see F-15, F-111, F-4, Alpha Jet, Sea Hawks, Harriers, French Dassault Mirage and lots of German and British Tornados plus course the F-16, since every Northern European nation too small to build own fighter jets banded together and acquired the F-16 during the 1970s.

And of course the joy of watching Norwegian C-130s or British, Danish, German, American, Dutch, and Belgian versions showing their love for trees and the Norwegian mountainous landscape up close (this still happens). It always makes me smile as I know SOF colleagues from around NATO are getting a scenic flight to hang out with their Norwegian brothers.

I have to say though - doing fieldwork for my doctorate on the highest mountains in Northern Europe, the rarest bird I ever looked DOWN on was a B-1 bomber hiding its substantial girth while skimming Norwegian national parks. F-111 and Tornados are not small aircraft when tucked into Norwegian alpine valley, but to look down on a B-1 Lancer - now that is just uncanny to observe (with a soundtrack to prove it). The C-130 is positively tiny (and slow) by comparison.

Now we fly the F-35 here in Norway (affectionately dubbed "Fat Amy"). I must confess that Gen 3 and 4 bodies were prettier to look at. But then I remind myself what they are designed to do when applied with anger, and the F-35 suddenly looks attractive again.

Still - watching a B-1 not even tree-hugging, it was moss hugging the terrain well above the treeline around 1300 meters above sea level (4000 and some feet), from my vantage point (ca 2000 meters above sea level; ca. 6000 ft). Something bigger than a civilian 737 is screaming along around 2, 000 ft below you. I am more environmentally conscious than most (though not an idiot) as I spent 30 years as a climate scientist (alongside being trained for a couple of years to be angry myself and serving that job in case it was needed as a reservist for 25 years) - there is beauty to behold in watching a machine being guided by humans to do the job it was designed to do.

[Togidubnus]

The TSR-2 is regarded by many as a Great British missed opportunity. But if you squint a bit, what really happened was that it turned into the Jaguar. It was a tremendously rugged aircraft: not mentioned or shown here is that it can take off from grass.