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anti-submarine warfare aircraft. It was developed in the 1950s, based loosely on
single Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engine. It had a CSF radar system with a
retractable antenna dome in its belly. The cockpit accommodated a crew of three,
including pilot, radar operator, and sensor operator. The pilot was seated in
front on the left, the navigator in front on the right, and the sensor operator
sat sideways behind them. The landing gear was of tricycle configuration, with
the main gear retracting backwards into nacelles in the wings. The main gear had
dual wheels, and the front part of the nacelles accommodated sonobuoys. The
The internal weapons bay could accommodate a homing torpedo or depth charges,
and underwing stores pylons could carry bombs, depth charges, rockets, or
missiles. Typical underwing stores included 68 mm (2.68 in) rocket pods or AS.12
wire-guided antiship missiles.
Role
Anti-submarine aircraft
National origin
France
Manufacturer
First flight
6 October 1956
Introduction
29 May 1959
Retired
2000
Primary users
French Navy
Indian Navy
Produced
1957-1962
Number built
89
Air Show at Paris Le Bourget Airport in May 1957.
two preproduction prototypes. 75 production aircraft were acquired by the
in shore-based training. 12 were acquired by the Indian Navy. Some sources say
that there were five preproduction prototypes, which may mean some of the
prototypes were brought up to production standard and passed on to the
1961 liberation of Portuguese controlled Goa, and was also used for ASW patrol
Pakistan Air Force F-104 Starfighter. It was also instrumental in taking out
Indian Navy during the 1980s, was relegated to shore-based patrol in 1987.
Nevertheless, they were employed that year in support of the Indian Peacekeeping
Force's Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka, flying sorties against the LTTE and
crippling the merchant ship Progress Light. The type was finally phased out in
1991, replaced in its duties by ASW helicopters.
program performed in the early 1980s refitted 28 of the aircraft to the Br.1050M
standard, featuring improved Thomson-CSF Iguane radar as used on the Atlantique
NG ocean-patrol aircraft, new OMEGA radio navigation gear, and a new ARAR 12
radar and radio location ("electronic support measures / ESM") system.
Another upgrade program in the early 1990s fitted 24 of these aircraft with a
new decoy system; a microcomputer-based data processing system; a datalink
system; and other new avionics. Later in the decade, they were also fitted with
the Thomson-CSF TTD Optronique Chlio forward-looking infrared (FLIR) imaging
hunting modern nuclear submarines, and so it was relegated to ocean surface
patrol.
Yugoslavia over Kosovo in early 1999, with the aircraft flying off the carrier
the Foch.
General characteristics
Crew: 3 (pilot, radar operator, navigator)
Length: 13.86 m (45 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 15.6 m (51 ft 2 in)
Height: 5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Wing area: 36 m2 (390 sq ft)
Empty weight: 5,700 kg (12,566 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 8,200 kg (18,078 lb)
Propellers: 4-bladed constant-speed fully-feathering reversible propeller
Performance
Maximum speed: 518 km/h (322 mph; 280 kn) at 3,050 m (10,007 ft)
Range: 2,500 km (1,553 mi; 1,350 nmi)
Endurance: 5 hr 10 min
Service ceiling: 8,000 m (26,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 7 m/s (1,400 ft/min)
Wing loading: 229 kg/m2 (47 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.20 kW/kg (0.12 hp/lb)
Armament
Torpedo or depth charges carried in internal bay
Bombs, depth charges, rockets, or missiles carried on underwing pylons
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