RAF Sepecat Jaguar: Strike Squadron

A quick insight into the RAF's Jaquar, the training/selection process and life on a front line RAF/NATO base at the height of the Cold War.
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IWM Catalogue Number: COI 1117
Production Date: 1979
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[@SM-dt1pr]

The only annual camp i went on as an air cader was to Coltishall -home of the Jaguar. This video makes me feel 15 again!

[@Swampfox612]

Gawd, the Jaguar is a lovely jet. I always did want one of those for myself. Heck, a guy can dream.

[@yanktornado5121]

“The Sharp End” Mick knows this on well 😉

[@raymondyee2008]

The Jaguar is a damn good ground attack plane and “SFMC” for the Cold War 1980-1989 section let’s you fly the Jaguar.

[@Scotscan]

My word. Some stunners at Lossiemouth back in the day.

[@jamesclyde7693]

Scotscan Squadronleader Paul Sneddon

[@elizabetharmada5335]

all of your pilots were refined and perfectly selected,wow

[@swedishvolvo3677]

Thank you for posting this! I have never seen it before.

[@Aeronaut1975]

Thanks for the post! I've been waiting for a Jaguar video

[@a4kkahu]

cool looking back great aircraft

[@Happychimp61]

Got some nice gear buddy thank you

[@MrSkid1970]

And off to bruggen they went,3 years on the pop!😂

[@swedishvolvo3677]

Yes, youtube videos can be downloaded.

[@airshowkg]

As of 2017, India is now the last nation to fly this amazing aircraft.

[@kopee35]

Amazing indeed!

[@ScrotusXL]

Great bit of 1970's Cold War scariness. Those folks really were at the sharp end with it all about to go nuclear at any moment. Yikes!

[@shirleydrury5565]

The jag was a good platform. But under powered . It had to have one engine in reheat for tanking up . But was a good craft .dun us prude in the gulf 😊😊❤

[@nichollsa1884]

This is great, can it be downloaded?

[@lifesahobby]

Kick the tyres , light the fires

[@ohredhk]

Jagaur carries more weapon than Phantom? Am I hearing this correctly?

[@HornyDude83]

ohredhk I doubt it, and their engines were notoriously underpowered for the airframe compared to the phantoms.

[@BrySkye]

It can be very easy to fudge these kind of numbers based on the situation to fit certain arguements. It's possible, for example, that a Jaguar with full internal fuel could have carried more payload within MTOW than a fully fuelled Phantom, but that would be in part because the Phantom could carry considerably more fuel in the first place (though it was also more thirsty so it needed more fuel) An empty Phantom FGR2 was only about 4000lbs lighter than a Jaguar at Maximum TakeOff Weight. The Phantom was a big, heavy plane and the British ones imparticular lost about 1,100lbs of payload capacity compared to other variants. They were heavier with the Spey engines and larger intakes, but didn't have an increase in MTOW to compensate.

[@tonyhaynes9080]

The English limited the engines power which is why they needed reheat to take off. The French were, I believe powered up to 105% and didn't need reheat to take off. It was to save on engine life. It was a mandatory call of 'Negative reheat ' if the pilot didn't engage it on take off.

[@gleggett3817]

More variety of weapons?

[@jasons44]

The people like me inside U.S wants to see U.K build more military planes

[@SM-dt1pr]

Not everybody's got 5 O levels... 😅😅😅

[@dunkcam]

Finally got to see what the fuss was about with the film crew that was on the Squadron Dispersal for a week.Remember one og the comments that were made by the film crew when they were filmimg some shots of a J aguar in one of the revetments and we were seeing aircraft off, any chance of keeping the noise down. At the time I was an SAC AMECH W -composite trained SAC Drunken Duncan Fraser

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