My mate and I were over from Australia for a holiday in Scotland in 1986. While in Aviemore, we decided to climb one of the hills to sit and enjoy the view. As we were sitting there, without any warning...one of these beasts came roaring along the valley from behind us...BELOW us...and proceeded to scream along the valley as if he was attacking the Death Star. An absolutely amazing brown trousers experience.
@@ScotsmanDougal 😂 The hill must have blocked all of the sound of it approaching. I'm sitting there, minding my own business, when...BAAAARRHH!! About 100 metres to my right and about 20 metres below the height at which we were sitting. Just about shat my own skull out.
2 of these , at full thrust, blew over my head at around 50 feet on the top of a hill in the scottish borders, they even had the famous jaguar camo on, and both planes were banked for turning, and I could see both pilots, one of which had his thumbs up, it was simply the most awesome thing to ever happen to me, and for that, the sepcat will always be my favourite jet fighter of all time, I will remember that to the end of my days, simply an awsome machine for its time, and it spent a long time in service.
This fighter is severely underrated, nobody talks about it. When I was a kid, I had a Dinky Toys version of a Jaguar, with retractable landing gear and working ejection seat. Dinky made really cool planes and helicopters in the '70s, and stuff from the various Gerry Anderson shows.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Design & development 4:15 - Mid roll ads 5:30 - Back to the video 8:15 - Chapter 2 - Specs & capabilities 13:15 - Chapter 3 - Service life & retirement
I worked on the development of anti-armour missiles for Jaguar and consequently saw quite a lot of video of typical attacks performed by the aircraft. They left me astonished at the level of skill demonstrated by the pilots, which included inverted flying to keep as close as possible to the ground in mountainous terrain and flying at very low altitudes when acquiring targets and operating weapon systems. It took a very special pilot to fly a Jaguar in the ground attack role. In fact, it flew so low and fast, with a window of opportunity of just a few seconds to attack a target, it proved very difficult to design any guided anti-armour weapon for the aircraft, because the missile airframe couldn't generate enough lateral (off boresight) acceleration to make them worthwhile.
When I worked with the Jag I guess if anyone flew inverted at high speed at low level would have been the ones that made a big hole in the German countryside.
@@poutramos4826 They rolled over to reduce their radar signature as they could follow the terrain more closely as they appeared on the brow of a hill. I was responsible for VJ291 guidance system for Hunting Engineering, the programme was abandoned precisely because they flew so low and fast. It re-emerged as a revised Air Staff Target in what eventually became Brimstone.
@@glynnwright1699 How did they release their weapons while inverted? As far as I'm aware VJ291 (Brimstone) was deployed on Tornado, Harrier and Typhoon but not Jaguar tho I could be wrong.
@@poutramos4826 VJ291 in its first iteration was a steerable dispenser, a small unpowered JP233 that would have allowed Jaguar to avoid overflying the target by steering the dispenser from the release point to the target using an inertial navigator not dissimilar to the system eventually adopted for NLAW. The problem was that target acquisition was at such short range (2km) that there was no time to generate any significant off-boresight separation and the Jaguar ended up above the ZSU--23, just as it would have done with conventional bombs. The whole point of the dispenser was to keep Jaguars away from radar-controlled guns that were deployed amongst the armoured vehicles. The programme was cancelled in 1982 and a new VJ2291 AST issued which called for long standoff range and automatic target acquisition. It was realised that Jaguar would be out of service by the time Brimstone was deployed (at least those were the plans in 1982), so it was never cleared to carry Brimstone. Pilots used the 'upside down' manoeuvre solely to reduce their radar signature as they reached the brow of the hill, not during normal flight.
At the height of the cold war I spent three years working on a Jaguar squadron in Germany, prior to that had spent two years at Coltishall and two years at Lossiemouth. Squadron life in Germany was very different, especially as the inner German border was about a hundred miles away. We operated out of Hardened aircraft Shelters, training flying during the week ended Friday afternoon when the aircraft were made serviceable, Brake parachutes were removed and replaced with a chaff dispenser, guns were reloaded with armour piercing rounds and the aircraft were loaded with cluster bombs. Monday it was all removed back to normal flying. There was also the QRA hardened aircraft shelters where a number of aircraft were always fully loaded with W177, ready to launch in minutes, with crew, pilots and ground crew sleeping in separate shelters just yards from the aircraft.
Indian Jaguar's are the most advanced oned especially the Darin 3 variant. While Britain and France turned to panavia tornado and Mirage 2000, Indian Air force focussed on Jaguar to upgrade it to it's peak from aesa radar to avionics. It's still effective as deep strike aircraft able to maneuver in Himalayan valleys. And also a tactical nuclear strike aircraft
There's footage from a US fighter in Desert Storm doing a 'low level attack' at around 300 feet, with the GIB pointing a camera down at a RAF Jaguar going between 50 foot high trees, a little above half the height of the trees off the ground.
Thumbnail isn’t the actual vehicle AGAIN… if you guys can’t get that basic bit right it brings the validity of the content of the video itself into question
I loved the Jaguar design with its double rear wheels and dainty dimensions, I still remember admiring them during the gulf war along with the tornado of course.
The T.2 two seat trainer of the RAF is, in my opinion, one of the most aesthetically pleasing jet aeroplanes ever made. Since it retained a secondary role as an attack aircraft it's training specifications did nothing to counter its lines, but without the bulk and angels of laser designation windows and the like.
Where I lived in Northamptonshire, a mostly quiet village, late 70's, 80's, everyday was like an air show. You could always see a pair of F111's with their wings out on standby flying around. Always hear the whine of A10's and watch them duelling over the fields. Vulcans at nearly ground level and, Jaguars. I remember once on a bike ride, sunny summer day, one came over head, nearly knocked us off our bikes. Never heard it coming, shot over our heads completely silent and then a sudden roar and the wind, parting the corn in the field as it sped away. We used to fly control line model air craft, 50ft wires, if it was over 50 feet I'll eat my hat. What a sight and sound! And the sound of freedom. What a machine! We used to cycle the 30 miles to Alconbury, watch the Deltics on the WCML and watch the stuff taking off. Once a jeep drove up to the fence and a guy shouted at us in American as to what we were doing. We were taken aback becasue we had never heard a real American? I shouted back "watching the trains and planes Sir". "Good for you boys" came the reply. 30 miles back, leave when the sun starts to go down, we had no lights on our bikes, knock on a random door to ask if we can fill our water bottles, maybe raid a pea field for a snack. What times they were. Ok, we were always only always 4 minutes away from the apocalypse, Gov TV ads on how to "survive" by hiding under a door? They looked like a mini version of a TSR2? What's the plane in the thumbnail ;-) It appears to have four intakes?
In March of 1993 I spent a month on rotation to Kuwait with the US Army. Our units did maneuver and live fire training in the desert. On two occasions we were assembled around a terrain model preparing for the day's maneuvers when out of nowhere a Jaguar did a mock bombing run on our unit. The Jag was so low that you could feel the heat from it's engines as it passed by. Incidentally, we were at Camp Doha when two British Puma's collided and went down in full view of members of that unit's families.
He means the thumbnail. Nothing against AI art but there are plenty of really cool pics of these machines online that can be used instead of machines that don’t actually even exist.
The Jaguar was indeed a nice aircraft to work on from the Ground crews point of view. Just a couple of points, the overwing pylons were not "usual" - I think you misread that. Overwing pylons are decidedly "unusual". As far as I can think, only the Lightning had a similar arrangement, also with tiny wings.
Jaguars of the RAF And French Air Force were regularly seen taking off from West German Autobahns during training exercise, They didn't need too much distance to get Airborne.
Well about that... French pilote of the Jaguar in Africa would say that Jaguar was able to fly only because the earth is round . But they loved their aircraft
Could've shown the one landing on the M55. There's a long straight on the M6 close by, the bridges were made to be removed easily for the same reason. When they were upgraded in the 80's they'd thrown most of the tooling away and it had to be remade at Strand rd Preston.
At first I clicked on this video because I was really interested in the content, but then I realized I also clicked on this video because I want to hear a British person repeatedly use the word "Jaguar".
Spent 5 years working on these in the Structures Bay at RAF Coltishall. Definitely an easy aircraft to work on. Jag 96 was really good, but very heavy to slow it down. It was the test bed for most of the electronics for the Eurofighter.
Everybody speaks about the ''sexy'' fighters, like the Mirage 2000, Mig 29 etc.. of the Cold War, but this plane would have been the work horse in a war in Europe for those two countries, the strike plane that would try to relentlessly slown down the red hordes... and the cost was assumed to be the vast majority of them would have been destroyed (with many of their crews) in a matter of days... Since I was a kid and see some TV and press works on the French and British versions at work in Desert Storm 1991 I was always fascinated by this plane.
Question, and I am being serious. What were the advantages of this platform over the F-111? It is obviously much smaller, but the F-111 already came as a 2 seat aircraft, could travel faster, could fly further, and could carry more while following terrain mapping just like this aircraft. If they were looking for something to do all that the F-111 offered, I feel like there must be something that this did better for the needs of the air forces, but based on this video, we didn't really hear what they may be. Was it better for the austere locations and better landing gear that was mentioned towards the end with the service life section? I know that would be important depending on the role of the aircraft, but that seemed more of an accidental benefit rather than a design feature. Was it just that European countries wanted to design something of their own at the point to show that they could? I haven't really studied much into the mindset of postwar Europe and how things were thought of as far as purchasing in use platforms versus designing their own.
My favorite videos you do are definitely the jet or military vehicles, flying or not. No matter what the content though, you have a loyal viewer in Maine.
In 2018, India cannibalised 31 airframes from purchased from France, 2 airframes from UK and Oman each, few engines and several hundred types of critically needed spares for optimum squadron serviceability.
I went to an open day, invited by my dad’s friend who worked there, to BAC Warton in about 1980. They flew over Jaguars and Tornados at altitudes not to be anywhere near members of the public today. It’s one of the loudest and coolest things I ever saw as a kid.
I have a soft spot for the RAF Jaguars that were based at RAF Coltishall. I lived in a village a short distance from the base, absolutely loved when they flew over my school loud and fast! You have covered a number of British aircraft, will you be covering the Bucaneer, Hawker Hunter or Canberra any time soon?
Here's a story I got to share .. Back around the mid to late 1980s my parents had a caravan at Challabough bay just around the corner from Bigbury bay .. Anyway on one really hot sunny summers day I was on the beach with a friend all was quite ,calm ,and very relaxed when 2 Jaguars at come to think of it wasn't probably far off 500 mph bounced the beach one literally flew up the beach itself the other between Challabough and Bigbury in a simulated ground attack .. People ducked ,dogs started howling ,kids cried ,car alarms went berserk ,and topless women thought OMG were has my bikini top gone .. Honest to god true story ..and I can tell you what at 11 /12 years old I wanted to be an RAF Jag pilot.
That was awesome Simon! I'd heard of this aircraft many years ago, but had no idea how great it was. Thank you so much. I loved the video from 1:33-1:51. Kudos to whoever dreamed this up and made it happen.
Absolutely fantastic aircraft to fly - speaking from experience. Shame about the pisspoor AI thumbnail on an otherwise warming and for me, nostalgic video 🥰🥰
The SEPECAT Jaguar has never proved proved itself in combat. The IAF still operates the Jaguar but prefers not to use it for anything except reserving it for delivering a nuclear strike.
Are you resorting to clickbait? Thats the only explanation i can think of for having an inaccurate on your title images. Its a real Shame because its a superb channel with great content.
Think of thee SEPECAT Jaguar as the "TSR.2 Lite" of its time. It proved to be the perfect platform for interdiction strikes into the western part of the Warsaw Pact countries by the early 1980's, a role that was filled on the Soviet side by the MiG-27 (though the MiG-27 was nowhere as capable as the Jaguar).
Please go back to using regular google images of the actual aircraft instead of using AI, it looks awful, your videos are nice so it sucks seeing the quality decrease
A large number of RAF Jaguars ended up at the RAF's Technical Training School at Cosford where they are still used for Basic Engineering training, For a while a number were stored at RAF Shawbury. Most of them were robbed for spares which were sold to Oman and India. A lot of Airframes then went to a couple of Aircraft Breakers, who have sold quite a few to Museums. One is ground running condition in the UK, Jaguar GR Mk 1A XX741 EJ at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum. It started out as a Gutted hulk which the Museum did a cosmetic restoration of. After that a number of ex Jaguar engineers got involved with the aircraft and rebuilt it to get the Hydraulics working. Then a couple of engines became available and the Fuel system and electrical system was rebuilt and the engines fitted. A former RAF Jaguar pilot took it up to 125MPH on a Fast Taxi in 2019. Working Parachute as well.
Please, not another one?! The thumbnail for this video is NOT a Sepecat Jaguar! That’s at least three recent videos where the thumbnail is just wrong! Please, I normally really like your videos, but this is getting embarrassing!
How many times can you fit the word "austere" into one script? Also Jennifer and Luis, maybe chill on the "old school via TV reporting Simon"-sound filter, doesn't work well with headphones. Otherwise, excellent work as always Megaprojects team!
Jaguar M was cancelled because it failed its Carrier Trials Massive!!!! The order for the M's were converted to A Models for the AdA. The RAF's plan was for the Aircraft to be bought as a Trainer only, with the majority of the aircraft being 2 seaters. The small number of RAF single seaters were for tactical weapons training. Main reason for the change in role was the 1968 NATO Flexible Response policy which required an increase in both conventional Ground Attack and Air Defence fighters. RAF decided to buy the Jaguar as a Strike / Interdiction aircraft to replace the Phantom, which could be then rerolled into an Air Defence Fighter to replace the Lightnings, the Jaguars being a stop gap until the MRCA (Tornado) replaced it 8 to 10 years later. RAF used it as an Interdictor / Strike / Reconnaissance Aircraft for most of its career. The ones in RAF Germany were nuclear capable (as where the French ones).
Video editing critique: why would you turn a good sounding mic into something that sounds like sandpaper for ears from 1:35 to 1:45 and 7:40 - 7:45. Ugh
Surely those planes at some point did training dogfights with US planes and even migs right?? So we would know how good they would have done in real combat?
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could you please, use correct map of INDIA
Sand 's as in the beach not sandy.
The voice effect is annoying, please don't use it to much
@@Clonhunter I hope he stops using it at all. Don't know what he feels it adds, but he should get tired of paying for it soon
My mate and I were over from Australia for a holiday in Scotland in 1986.
While in Aviemore, we decided to climb one of the hills to sit and enjoy the view.
As we were sitting there, without any warning...one of these beasts came roaring along the valley from behind us...BELOW us...and proceeded to scream along the valley as if he was attacking the Death Star.
An absolutely amazing brown trousers experience.
without any warning lol
@@ScotsmanDougal 😂
The hill must have blocked all of the sound of it approaching. I'm sitting there, minding my own business, when...BAAAARRHH!!
About 100 metres to my right and about 20 metres below the height at which we were sitting. Just about shat my own skull out.
@@ScotsmanDougal try a day at the 'mach loop' in Wales. You very often see the fast jets well before you hear them.
2 of these , at full thrust, blew over my head at around 50 feet on the top of a hill in the scottish borders, they even had the famous jaguar camo on, and both planes were banked for turning, and I could see both pilots, one of which had his thumbs up, it was simply the most awesome thing to ever happen to me, and for that, the sepcat will always be my favourite jet fighter of all time, I will remember that to the end of my days, simply an awsome machine for its time, and it spent a long time in service.
Wow.. when was that?
This fighter is severely underrated, nobody talks about it.
When I was a kid, I had a Dinky Toys version of a Jaguar, with retractable landing gear and working ejection seat. Dinky made really cool planes and helicopters in the '70s, and stuff from the various Gerry Anderson shows.
It's one of my favourites alongside the tornado
The Jaguar wasn't a fighter, it had the GR designation: Ground Attack/Reconnaissance, if it was a Fighter it would be designated F.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Design & development
4:15 - Mid roll ads
5:30 - Back to the video
8:15 - Chapter 2 - Specs & capabilities
13:15 - Chapter 3 - Service life & retirement
I worked on the development of anti-armour missiles for Jaguar and consequently saw quite a lot of video of typical attacks performed by the aircraft. They left me astonished at the level of skill demonstrated by the pilots, which included inverted flying to keep as close as possible to the ground in mountainous terrain and flying at very low altitudes when acquiring targets and operating weapon systems. It took a very special pilot to fly a Jaguar in the ground attack role. In fact, it flew so low and fast, with a window of opportunity of just a few seconds to attack a target, it proved very difficult to design any guided anti-armour weapon for the aircraft, because the missile airframe couldn't generate enough lateral (off boresight) acceleration to make them worthwhile.
Flying inverted at high speed very close to the ground? It took a very special pilot to do this. I'm awestruck. Thanks for sharing this.
When I worked with the Jag I guess if anyone flew inverted at high speed at low level would have been the ones that made a big hole in the German countryside.
@@poutramos4826 They rolled over to reduce their radar signature as they could follow the terrain more closely as they appeared on the brow of a hill. I was responsible for VJ291 guidance system for Hunting Engineering, the programme was abandoned precisely because they flew so low and fast. It re-emerged as a revised Air Staff Target in what eventually became Brimstone.
@@glynnwright1699 How did they release their weapons while inverted? As far as I'm aware VJ291 (Brimstone) was deployed on Tornado, Harrier and Typhoon but not Jaguar tho I could be wrong.
@@poutramos4826 VJ291 in its first iteration was a steerable dispenser, a small unpowered JP233 that would have allowed Jaguar to avoid overflying the target by steering the dispenser from the release point to the target using an inertial navigator not dissimilar to the system eventually adopted for NLAW.
The problem was that target acquisition was at such short range (2km) that there was no time to generate any significant off-boresight separation and the Jaguar ended up above the ZSU--23, just as it would have done with conventional bombs. The whole point of the dispenser was to keep Jaguars away from radar-controlled guns that were deployed amongst the armoured vehicles.
The programme was cancelled in 1982 and a new VJ2291 AST issued which called for long standoff range and automatic target acquisition.
It was realised that Jaguar would be out of service by the time Brimstone was deployed (at least those were the plans in 1982), so it was never cleared to carry Brimstone.
Pilots used the 'upside down' manoeuvre solely to reduce their radar signature as they reached the brow of the hill, not during normal flight.
At the height of the cold war I spent three years working on a Jaguar squadron in Germany, prior to that had spent two years at Coltishall and two years at Lossiemouth. Squadron life in Germany was very different, especially as the inner German border was about a hundred miles away. We operated out of Hardened aircraft Shelters, training flying during the week ended Friday afternoon when the aircraft were made serviceable, Brake parachutes were removed and replaced with a chaff dispenser, guns were reloaded with armour piercing rounds and the aircraft were loaded with cluster bombs. Monday it was all removed back to normal flying. There was also the QRA hardened aircraft shelters where a number of aircraft were always fully loaded with W177, ready to launch in minutes, with crew, pilots and ground crew sleeping in separate shelters just yards from the aircraft.
A great jet, over 30 years of service in the RAF. The French Jaguar damaged in the Gulf in 1991 is on display at Le Bourget, Paris aircraft museum.
Indian Jaguar's are the most advanced oned especially the Darin 3 variant. While Britain and France turned to panavia tornado and Mirage 2000, Indian Air force focussed on Jaguar to upgrade it to it's peak from aesa radar to avionics. It's still effective as deep strike aircraft able to maneuver in Himalayan valleys. And also a tactical nuclear strike aircraft
9:23. Did that plane have sidwinders mounted to the tops of the wings? That's the coolest thing I've seen on a plane.
Indeed the Jaguar did carry Sidewinders overwing.
There's footage from a US fighter in Desert Storm doing a 'low level attack' at around 300 feet, with the GIB pointing a camera down at a RAF Jaguar going between 50 foot high trees, a little above half the height of the trees off the ground.
If I remember well the english had tornado, it was the French that has to use the Jaguar because they coudn't use Mirage F1
@@jean-philippebobin3732 Both had the Jaguar
That would be an ex Buccaneer pilot
@@ByronJackson-e5h no, i feel that it would be too high off the ground for one of those blokes. 😁
I worked on 16 sqn jags Lossiemouth. Beautiful aircraft. Low level beast.
For anyone who cares, there's one on display at the yorkshire air museum at elvington in the uk 👍👍
Thumbnail isn’t the actual vehicle AGAIN… if you guys can’t get that basic bit right it brings the validity of the content of the video itself into question
I loved the Jaguar design with its double rear wheels and dainty dimensions, I still remember admiring them during the gulf war along with the tornado of course.
That pic on the front is a bit odd
The T.2 two seat trainer of the RAF is, in my opinion, one of the most aesthetically pleasing jet aeroplanes ever made. Since it retained a secondary role as an attack aircraft it's training specifications did nothing to counter its lines, but without the bulk and angels of laser designation windows and the like.
In my day most single seaters had the laser designator nose minus the actual laser designator
Absolutely agree, and especially love the two-seaters in the “raspberry ripple” paint
Where I lived in Northamptonshire, a mostly quiet village, late 70's, 80's, everyday was like an air show. You could always see a pair of F111's with their wings out on standby flying around. Always hear the whine of A10's and watch them duelling over the fields. Vulcans at nearly ground level and, Jaguars. I remember once on a bike ride, sunny summer day, one came over head, nearly knocked us off our bikes. Never heard it coming, shot over our heads completely silent and then a sudden roar and the wind, parting the corn in the field as it sped away. We used to fly control line model air craft, 50ft wires, if it was over 50 feet I'll eat my hat. What a sight and sound! And the sound of freedom. What a machine! We used to cycle the 30 miles to Alconbury, watch the Deltics on the WCML and watch the stuff taking off. Once a jeep drove up to the fence and a guy shouted at us in American as to what we were doing. We were taken aback becasue we had never heard a real American? I shouted back "watching the trains and planes Sir". "Good for you boys" came the reply. 30 miles back, leave when the sun starts to go down, we had no lights on our bikes, knock on a random door to ask if we can fill our water bottles, maybe raid a pea field for a snack. What times they were.
Ok, we were always only always 4 minutes away from the apocalypse, Gov TV ads on how to "survive" by hiding under a door?
They looked like a mini version of a TSR2? What's the plane in the thumbnail ;-) It appears to have four intakes?
The Jag was awesome, even if it looked like it had skinny model legs. Made so many of these as Airfix kits as a kid.
Hehe, me too
Mmmmmm...
...Elle McPherson...
It's funny coz when I worked with the Jaguar the aircraft techs called it an airfix kit.
i had the Heller versions. Just bought another one will have to try the airfix one :)
In March of 1993 I spent a month on rotation to Kuwait with the US Army. Our units did maneuver and live fire training in the desert. On two occasions we were assembled around a terrain model preparing for the day's maneuvers when out of nowhere a Jaguar did a mock bombing run on our unit. The Jag was so low that you could feel the heat from it's engines as it passed by.
Incidentally, we were at Camp Doha when two British Puma's collided and went down in full view of members of that unit's families.
They were Kuwaiti Pumas.
Please do a video on the Panavia Tornado!!
Tonka tonka tonka
Saw Raf tornadoes flying over my grandmother's house in England
I have a dvd documentary on the jaguar really interesting airplane
Can you use a picture of the actual aircraft at least once
You mean aside from all the pictures of the actual aircraft that are in the video, right?
Yes, what the hell is the thumbnail…
He means the thumbnail. Nothing against AI art but there are plenty of really cool pics of these machines online that can be used instead of machines that don’t actually even exist.
They did dozens of times. Wtf are on about?
Ummmm....no.
Can’t help but to wonder that the swing wing concept ended up as the Panavia Tornado 5:41
The Jaguar was indeed a nice aircraft to work on from the Ground crews point of view. Just a couple of points, the overwing pylons were not "usual" - I think you misread that. Overwing pylons are decidedly "unusual". As far as I can think, only the Lightning had a similar arrangement, also with tiny wings.
Jaguars of the RAF And French Air Force were regularly seen taking off from West German Autobahns during training exercise, They didn't need too much distance to get Airborne.
Well about that...
French pilote of the Jaguar in Africa would say that Jaguar was able to fly only because the earth is round .
But they loved their aircraft
I lived near RAF coltishall as a kid. The jags were the plane of my youth. I’d go watch these beasts take off, in awe. Wonderful
I'm surprised they didn't use a picture of a Bengal Tiger.
Love the "Saint figure" on the pilots helmet Simon Templar. I have that tattoo
Could've shown the one landing on the M55. There's a long straight on the M6 close by, the bridges were made to be removed easily for the same reason. When they were upgraded in the 80's they'd thrown most of the tooling away and it had to be remade at Strand rd Preston.
Finally someone did a video on the jaguar, well done 👏
At first I clicked on this video because I was really interested in the content, but then I realized I also clicked on this video because I want to hear a British person repeatedly use the word "Jaguar".
Spent 5 years working on these in the Structures Bay at RAF Coltishall. Definitely an easy aircraft to work on.
Jag 96 was really good, but very heavy to slow it down. It was the test bed for most of the electronics for the Eurofighter.
Everybody speaks about the ''sexy'' fighters, like the Mirage 2000, Mig 29 etc.. of the Cold War, but this plane would have been the work horse in a war in Europe for those two countries, the strike plane that would try to relentlessly slown down the red hordes... and the cost was assumed to be the vast majority of them would have been destroyed (with many of their crews) in a matter of days... Since I was a kid and see some TV and press works on the French and British versions at work in Desert Storm 1991 I was always fascinated by this plane.
Question, and I am being serious. What were the advantages of this platform over the F-111? It is obviously much smaller, but the F-111 already came as a 2 seat aircraft, could travel faster, could fly further, and could carry more while following terrain mapping just like this aircraft. If they were looking for something to do all that the F-111 offered, I feel like there must be something that this did better for the needs of the air forces, but based on this video, we didn't really hear what they may be. Was it better for the austere locations and better landing gear that was mentioned towards the end with the service life section? I know that would be important depending on the role of the aircraft, but that seemed more of an accidental benefit rather than a design feature. Was it just that European countries wanted to design something of their own at the point to show that they could? I haven't really studied much into the mindset of postwar Europe and how things were thought of as far as purchasing in use platforms versus designing their own.
My favorite videos you do are definitely the jet or military vehicles, flying or not. No matter what the content though, you have a loyal viewer in Maine.
Need the Jag in DCS.
In 2018, India cannibalised 31 airframes from purchased from France, 2 airframes from UK and Oman each, few engines and several hundred types of critically needed spares for optimum squadron serviceability.
just throwing this idea out there : mega conflicts
I've wanted to see a Jag-vid for a long time so thank you fir this :)
My book Paper Tiger, Paper Dragon features the Jaguar and is actually available as a free e-book this weekend. Good timing and a great airplane!
I went to an open day, invited by my dad’s friend who worked there, to BAC Warton in about 1980. They flew over Jaguars and Tornados at altitudes not to be anywhere near members of the public today. It’s one of the loudest and coolest things I ever saw as a kid.
I have a soft spot for the RAF Jaguars that were based at RAF Coltishall. I lived in a village a short distance from the base, absolutely loved when they flew over my school loud and fast!
You have covered a number of British aircraft, will you be covering the Bucaneer, Hawker Hunter or Canberra any time soon?
Here's a story I got to share ..
Back around the mid to late 1980s my parents had a caravan at Challabough bay just around the corner from Bigbury bay ..
Anyway on one really hot sunny summers day I was on the beach with a friend all was quite ,calm ,and very relaxed when 2 Jaguars at come to think of it wasn't probably far off 500 mph bounced the beach one literally flew up the beach itself the other between Challabough and Bigbury in a simulated ground attack ..
People ducked ,dogs started howling ,kids cried ,car alarms went berserk ,and topless women thought OMG were has my bikini top gone ..
Honest to god true story ..and I can tell you what at 11 /12 years old I wanted to be an RAF Jag pilot.
What the hell is with this AI art you're using now for the thumbnails?
That whole thumbnail is a fever dream
Great aeroplane spent 4 yrs working* on it in the late 90’s.
The Falklands War might have turned out a lot differently if the Jaguar M had been produced and the Super Étendard never developed.
That was awesome Simon! I'd heard of this aircraft many years ago, but had no idea how great it was. Thank you so much.
I loved the video from 1:33-1:51. Kudos to whoever dreamed this up and made it happen.
At this point I would have been happier with a picture of the animal called the jaguar instead of whatever abomination is on the thumbnail.
Can you review the a-1 skyraider I'd very much like to see your take on that beast of a plane
I'm actually enjoying your intentionally misleading thumbnails now, it sends everyone nuts.
Same here, those are the comments I look for!
I was in CFB Goosebay in Canada were NATO practice low leave flying. Britain and Germany had them there. Amazing to watch them
They must have been all RAF as Luftwaffe didn't fly the Jaguar.
At least show a picture of a Sepecat Jaguar you are in dark skies territory.
The Sepecat Jaguar >>> Master Light Bomber ... 🙏🌷🌿🌍💜🕊🇬🇧🇫🇷
IAF planned update the engine with the help of honeywell, to handle new updates but was dropped because it was too expensive
Lol AI image generators give jets extra intakes like they give people extra teeth and fingers
Absolutely fantastic aircraft to fly - speaking from experience. Shame about the pisspoor AI thumbnail on an otherwise warming and for me, nostalgic video 🥰🥰
Simon can you do a video on the Panavia Tornado?
Have you done a video on the English Electric Lightning? The most amazing jet fighter ever? If not, would you?
They look awfully a lot like a twin engine version of the TSR2. Are you going to do a video on the Panavia Tornado?
Of all the airplanes on the channel i have yet to see a swedish one, would like to see a video done on the Gripen or Viggen 🫡
Mig-27 (formerly 23BN) Soviet analog is also used in India
All retired by the IAF a couple of years ago.
The SEPECAT Jaguar has never proved proved itself in combat. The IAF still operates the Jaguar but prefers not to use it for anything except reserving it for delivering a nuclear strike.
Indian Airforce or Isreali Airforce
@@sakethvarma5079 Indian one
I thought india used mirage 2000 for nuclear delivery.
@@sakethvarma5079 That too. But Mirage is also used for tactical strikes, whereas IAF prefers not to use Jaguars for tactical strikes.
@@col.waltervonschonkopf69 😯👍🏻
Are you resorting to clickbait?
Thats the only explanation i can think of for having an inaccurate on your title images.
Its a real Shame because its a superb channel with great content.
Excellent stuff bro
Think of thee SEPECAT Jaguar as the "TSR.2 Lite" of its time. It proved to be the perfect platform for interdiction strikes into the western part of the Warsaw Pact countries by the early 1980's, a role that was filled on the Soviet side by the MiG-27 (though the MiG-27 was nowhere as capable as the Jaguar).
TSR2 extra extra lite.
I feel I should have added a few more extras...
You forgot mention the Jaguar ACT, fly by wire demonstrator. 😂
Please go back to using regular google images of the actual aircraft instead of using AI, it looks awful, your videos are nice so it sucks seeing the quality decrease
When the French and British work together, they always surprise, and produce the best. The same thing when they wage war.
It's just a pity that the aircraft carrier capable Jaguar M never progressed beyond the prototype stage.
Simon I know you save money on the thumbnails but two air inlets on one side? This A I bullshit has to stop dude.
Ah, I see - another unconnected thumbnail - not a Jaguar in sight.
It might be better suited to the frontispiece of a Marvel comic perhaps.
It’s Duncan Sands.. the Y is silent…
Gee, a damn good fighter, never heard of it. Overshadowed by Mirages and Tornados.
One could argue that they perfectly fulfilled their purpose, that no peer ever challenged NATO _because_ we were so armed.
Looks right, flies right.
like the channel great episode, just nota fan of the Ai art 👎you used on thumbnail
i know what happens to most US planes that are retired, but what happens to UK/FR/european planes? are they scrapped or stored somewhere?
A large number of RAF Jaguars ended up at the RAF's Technical Training School at Cosford where they are still used for Basic Engineering training, For a while a number were stored at RAF Shawbury. Most of them were robbed for spares which were sold to Oman and India. A lot of Airframes then went to a couple of Aircraft Breakers, who have sold quite a few to Museums. One is ground running condition in the UK, Jaguar GR Mk 1A XX741 EJ at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum. It started out as a Gutted hulk which the Museum did a cosmetic restoration of. After that a number of ex Jaguar engineers got involved with the aircraft and rebuilt it to get the Hydraulics working. Then a couple of engines became available and the Fuel system and electrical system was rebuilt and the engines fitted. A former RAF Jaguar pilot took it up to 125MPH on a Fast Taxi in 2019. Working Parachute as well.
Please, not another one?! The thumbnail for this video is NOT a Sepecat Jaguar! That’s at least three recent videos where the thumbnail is just wrong! Please, I normally really like your videos, but this is getting embarrassing!
It's AI art. They've been using it more and more recently. And yeah, it sucks.
The foothae used is freely available, you aint paying for the episode, and footage costs.
How about a new video on Sudan fights + other ongoing conflics in Africa?
Can you please stop using the distorted audio in the video for the TV bits. It hurts my ears and gives me sensory problems 😢
Did I catch an Obi-Wan quote in there, Simon?
If so, amazing work 🖖
Agressive negotiations indeed
SAme performance as the SU-24 Fencer, with a bit less of a load out.
I love squarespace ! Aw'right ?
How many times can you fit the word "austere" into one script?
Also Jennifer and Luis, maybe chill on the "old school via TV reporting Simon"-sound filter, doesn't work well with headphones.
Otherwise, excellent work as always Megaprojects team!
Problem is, I think his prediction was actually correct, but maybe a bit early.
Good thing that they never really had to be used.
Jaguar M was cancelled because it failed its Carrier Trials Massive!!!! The order for the M's were converted to A Models for the AdA. The RAF's plan was for the Aircraft to be bought as a Trainer only, with the majority of the aircraft being 2 seaters. The small number of RAF single seaters were for tactical weapons training. Main reason for the change in role was the 1968 NATO Flexible Response policy which required an increase in both conventional Ground Attack and Air Defence fighters. RAF decided to buy the Jaguar as a Strike / Interdiction aircraft to replace the Phantom, which could be then rerolled into an Air Defence Fighter to replace the Lightnings, the Jaguars being a stop gap until the MRCA (Tornado) replaced it 8 to 10 years later. RAF used it as an Interdictor / Strike / Reconnaissance Aircraft for most of its career. The ones in RAF Germany were nuclear capable (as where the French ones).
Would have been so useful in Ukraine given its unfussy airfield demands combined with a certain amount of badassedness in general.
Fun fact: the Jaguar was the first Airfix model I ever built. Unfortunately I don't have the model any more. I think I should build another one.
Consider myself, self-corrected.
Participated on a lot of excercises with 6sqn and 54sqn coltishalll at Air base Tirstrup Denmark the they lost 2 Jaguar at eggebeck in 1977-1979
Video editing critique: why would you turn a good sounding mic into something that sounds like sandpaper for ears from 1:35 to 1:45 and 7:40 - 7:45. Ugh
Where do you get these bizarre aircraft images for your thumbnails?
Surely those planes at some point did training dogfights with US planes and even migs right?? So we would know how good they would have done in real combat?
What's an anit-radiation missile?
Basically anti radar
When Britain and France get together they just build ugly ducklings like the Jaguar and Concord🤓😂
You already did the Vigilante.....not surprising. My "bad'
Beautiful aircraft
Basically it’s a slim Phantom F4 in a nutshell😂
All I can think when I see that name is "Septic" ROFLMAO! The"Sewage Cat"