The SEPECAT Jaguar is a British-French supersonic jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force in the close air support and nuclear strike role. As of 2025, the Jaguar remains in service with the Indian Air Force.

Feb 20, 2019 · The Jaguar that entered RAF service was a much more advanced aircraft than had been envisaged less than ten years before, it was equipped with some of the most advanced digital technology of the time with a central computer, head-up display, navigation attack system, laser range and targeting system and a projected moving map display.

Nov 23, 2020 · The Jaguar A is a single-seat low-level attack aircraft deployed by the French Air Force (FAF). Its maiden flight took place in March 1969. Two prototypes and 160 production units were built.

Apr 12, 2023 · For ten years from the mid-1970s the SEPECAT Jaguar was the backbone of RAF Germany’s (RAFG) nuclear strike, attack and photographic reconnaissance squadrons. The Jaguar Conversion Team formed in 1973 at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, soon becoming 226 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU), training all RAF Jaguar pilots up to 1991.

Mar 17, 2020 · The British and French air forces each placed orders for 200 aircraft, the RAF opting for 165 single-seat and 35 two-seat aircraft. Deliveries to the RAF began in 1973 and more than three decades on, the Jaguar continues to equip RAF as well as Armee de I’Air units.

A joint Anglo-French programme serving with the French and Indian air forces as well as the RAF the Jaguar tactical support and ground-attack aircraft equipped eight first-line squadrons from 1974 and was a major element in RAF Germany’s Cold-War era air capability until supplanted by the Tornado in 1985.

Twelve Royal Air Force Jaguars joined their French colleagues in combat during the 1991 Gulf War, known as Operation Granby to the RAF. Sadly one Jaguar was lost during a training sortie prior to the war, with Flt Lt Keith Collister killed when his Jaguar hit a ridge during a low level turn.

The Jaguar replaced the F-4 Phantom in the RAF low-level strike role, and while RAF pilots missed the sheer solidity of the Phantom and its heavy warload, the Jaguar was fine machine, optimized for low-level flight and capable of precision attack, as …

Feb 5, 2024 · The first offensive support aircraft to be dispatched by the UK to the Gulf during Operation Granby were twelve Jaguar GR1As from RAF Coltishall. Although initially based at Thumrait, in Oman, the Jaguars were moved to Muharraq, Bahrain, during the build-up of coalition forces that preceded the launch of Operation Desert Storm.

The SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1 was a powerful, very fast and intimidating aircraft resulting from the cooperation between France and England in the Cold War era. From being a shared jet trainer with limited ground attack capability in its original form, …