There were some older threads about SuE, but I figured better not to resurrect all those Falkland debates. Only you can stop thread necromancy!
1. Wiki article of Etendard IV states it could carry AA.20. I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere, it is true or has someone just confused AA.20 with AS.20?
2. Some other article mentioned that Etendard IV could carry Matra R.530 missiles. Any truth in that? Etendard didn’t have a proper radar, but in theory they could have carrier the IR variant, I guess.
3. Was there ever consideration of integrating Mica to Super Etendard? Again, somewhere was mentioned amongst proposed upgrades “improved self-defence missile” which cannot have been anything else than Mica.
By: Jinan - 7th March 2015 at 19:13
Le Dassault Étendard fut conçu en vue de participer à la compétition organisée en 1955 par l’OTAN, relative à un chasseur d’attaque capable d’opérer à partir de pistes sommairement aménagées. La société Dassault met alors au point trois avions : le Mystère XXII, non retenu pour participer, le Mystère XXIV équipé d’un Snecma Atar 101 E3 et qui devient Étendard IV, enfin le Mystère XXIV équipé d’un Bristol Orphéus 03 et devenu Étendard VI. Ces deux appareils, tout comme le Breguet Br.1001 Taon ne sont pas retenus par l’OTAN au profit du Fiat G.91. Toutefois l’Étendard IV attire l’attention de la Marine Nationale qui souhaite une version navalisée, un appareil embarqué d’assaut et de chasse à basse altitude pour ses porte-avions Foch et Clemenceau.
http://www.partisansmarine.com/t10278p930-avions-et-aviateurs-francais
Check also for Mystère XXIV and AA 20?
By: Jinan - 7th March 2015 at 17:21
1. Long live wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA.20
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The Nord AS-30 ASM was developed for the Vautour, the Etendard and the Mirage.
second operational AAM, the Nord-5103 (AA-20), was in service with other fighters [besides Voutour] as well ( Mystere, Aquilon and Super Mystere).
http://www.oocities.org/zvika47.geo/arms-fr.htm
2. The Matra R.530 is a French medium to short range air-to-air missile. It was available in Infrared homing and SARH. Not to be confused with Super 530 with mono-pulse AD26 CW Doppler semi-active seeker (SARH only)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.530
3. NO. Though is could probabley work with MICA-IR version.
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March 7, 2015 at 3:06 pm