Glad to see the U.K. getting a quality product for their pilot training. I heard their Tucanos were kind of POS and I am sure these Texan II are nowhere near the same build quality.
No it's just that MoD procurement always buy from the lowest bidder. They don't have to use the kit so they don't care about quality or lack of.This is a rehashed Pilatus PC-7 built in the USA. We'd have done better buing the PC-9
I always loved the look of the Jaguar, especially the clips from the 1st Gulf War with their over-wing sidewinders (they just looked the part 🙂). The videos of them flying low level and through canyons are amazing.
Fabulous scenes. Thanks! The thing that I react to in video is that Italians fly Star fighters. The worst plane in history. Hundreds of german pilots lost their lives flying those airctraft. Nearly no wing. How could the USA accept it in this day and age?
India loves its jaguar aircraft. ALWAYS THE FIRST TO GO INTO ENEMY TERRATORY. THEY WERE THE FIRST TO GET UPGRADE WITH AESA RADAR. With new weapons i.e. long distance runway bomb making them deadly. Other planes can also do much of what Jaguar can do today. I dont if they can do it just as well.
The Typhoon is all well & good but zero character & just is a EU number. Before that with our own planes Tornado, Buccaneers, Jaguars.. they had character in design & function. France still has its own fighter jets.
A much underrated aircraft that was nearly as good as the TSR2 .Those low flying shots through the mountains made me feel quite ill but it makes you appreciate the level of training the pilots must go through .
Completely different aircraft. Jag had no radar, and was initially built as a trainer. Not even close to a TSR2. The tornado is the closet to TSR2 and even that wasn’t as good.
Spent a lot of my time on Jags as a Squipper at 226-16 and then onto Colt on the other Squadrons. Managed to blag 3 jollies in my time too with Tim Kerrs, Tess Tickle and ? Connell and got some 'stick time' over the Moray Firth :-) Some familiar faces here for sure . Absolutely the best of times. I miss the Jag life. I miss going away on det, I miss the people and the laughs and lifestyle.
They were initially built as a trainer. Only once they realised how good they were did they start to use them outside of that. But the airframe couldn’t deal with much more than 20-25% extra.
