![]() Max airspeed is 860 knots (989.67 miles per hour/1.3 Mach), with a range of 2,190 miles and a ceiling of 45,930 feet.Īrmament-wise, there are two 30mm DEFA cannons and five hardpoints - four under the wings and one under the centerline pylon stations – that can carry a payload of up to 9,920 pounds. The Jaguar has a fuselage length of 55 feet 3 inches, a wingspan of 28 feet 6 inches, a height of 16 feet 11 inches, an empty weight of 15,432 pounds, and a maximum takeoff weight of 34,612 pounds. The plane was also exported to India (more on this in a bit), Oman, Ecuador, and Nigeria. The warbird (or flying battle cat if you prefer) was manufactured by SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l’avion École de Combat et d’Appui Tactique), a joint venture between the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC now known as BAE Systems) and Bréguet (which eventually merged with Dassault Aviation), thus cementing one of the first major joint Anglo-French military ventures. The SEPECAT Jaguar made her maiden flight on 8 September 1968 and entered into official operational service with the French Air Force (Armée de l’air) in 1972, followed by her Royal Air Force (RAF) enlistment in 1973. And most relevant to this article, in the military aviation world, you have the SEPECAT Jaguar, an attack aircraft that may be long in the tooth (pardon the bad feline pun) but can still pack quite a deadly punch. ![]() In the automotive industry, the Jaguar XJ is a series of luxury cars that’s historically been long on good looks but short of reputed reliability (driving one remains a Bucket List item for me nonetheless). In Mother Nature, the jaguar is the largest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. ![]()
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