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102mm gun!!!

Well they are at the Mont-de-Marsan test center for one year now. The planes now go to their first operationnal unit in Saint Dizier, to replace the antiquated Jaguar…The unit would be operational at the end of the summer…

By coward I mean he was particulalry courageous to cut the head of a poor man, lying in front of him… Long life to the American pilots who changed this ******* into an insane and stinky jelly. As Himmler or Goebbels, some men really don’t raise much regrets when their die.

A good news, this man was really a barbarian and a coward.
I’m asking what weapon killed him. Was there an helicopter raid? F-16s?

Interesting thread! Foch and clemenceau catapults were 50m long, Vs 75m for the De Gaulle and 90m for the USS carriers.

Concerning SuE weight, don’t forgot that its main weapon was the Exocet ASM. The SuE is a bit underpowered (the Atar only have 5000kgp of thrust), its wepon load is only 2000kg, and the ASM only fit underwings.
To preserve handlings qualities, you need to counterbalance the Exocet weigth by a fuel tank on the other wing. This is a heavy, clumsy and bulky configuration for the SuE… to my mind it was impossible to launch an Exocet-armed SuE from the 25 de Mayo (weak catapults, short deck).

To conclude, I would said that at the time the SuE main weapon was the Exocet. Whithout it, it was quite unuseful (only in the 90’s it become a multirole fighter).
But the exocet was too heavy for a catapulting from the 25 de Mayo…
So the SuE were quite unarmed if they were launch from the carrier…