Mirage III S fighter-aircraft launch with JATO rocket engine in Switzerland 🚀 (1968) 

i think the same, i remember here in chile the Mirage panttera, with cannards and 50 cms extra of nose due its fantastic radar, were replaced by F-16

The algorithm seems to like Jatos

FFS, I can't believe people are still doing these shitty "algorithm" comments. 🙄

Ja Ja !

​@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUMwhat a travesty!

Ja wohl!!

Yeah I want to mount one on the roof of my Chevy and drive across the desert near the Grand Canyon, forgetting there's a bend in the road and get embedded in a cliff 3600 feet above the Colorado river after the brakes to liquid.

Yes, the locals tend to be like that. A colleague of mine once brought his assault rifle to the office because he had to turn it in in the afternoon. Not strictly legal - technically he can only transport it from home to range or military base uninterrupted - but tolerated, and everybody was very, as you call it, blasé about it. I also lived close to an army firing range, and our office overlooked it. The 35mm vehicle guns were impressive, but not as impressive as the AT rockets. I can't count any more how often I heard the old joke "war's hell, but the sound is amazing". As a matter of fact, the only time I ever witnessed someone NOT be cool about something like that, was my radical left-wing boss. He pretty near called the police on some guy carrying an assault rifle along the road. Which would have been a bone-headed move, because that guy was almost certainly within his legal rights.

I grew up in the 80s in Zurich Schwamendingen. Starting Mirages from Dübendorf military Airfield were just normal. We kids knew without looking to the Sky if it was a Hunter orva Mirage just by the Sound (Mirages had this skreeching, screaming sound you also hear in the video). At school we couldn't understand our teachers anymore because of the noise when they were starting, one after another... Nice thing was, military Jets basically only flew during the day. But because of the Dübendorf airfield, Civil Jets almost never flew over Schwamendingen. This changed, when Dübendorf closed 😢

@@feynthefallen and the same radical left wing boss sends now ammo into the Ukraine......

On était à un pot de vin de trop des ricains prêt d’avoir des rafales

The Mirage III became one of the first big public scandals in Switzerland. Also, the value of a Mach 2 Bomber for Switzerland was always questionable. An impressive plane nonetheless!

Don't recall them ever complaining about the Hornet...

Ils vont avoir de beaux simulateurs bientôt

​@@MarcoTedaldi Doesn't matter. The scandal was only the purchase... quality was excellent. Nobody complained about the aircraft... many were sad it retired.

"We have determined that your injuries are not service related."

yes, you are right, I've corrected this, the film was produced 1st Apr 1968

Is this old plane (Mirage III I think) really in DCS?

​@@MarcoTedaldiNo, but DCS does have the F-1 (Spanish variants CE, BE, EE so far, soon we will get the M variant too) and the M2000C

​@@MarcoTedaldi Razbam are supposedly working on a IIIE, which the S is derived from. Given their production schedule we can expect to see it around mid-2047...

@@FallenPhoenix86Also, Another 3rd party developer is making the Israeli Kfir, based on the Mirage 5

Fwoooosh

They ALWAYS call it JATO for some reason, even if it should really be called RATO....

which aircraft even has JATO, as in a jet engine

@@PrintScreen. None haha they're all rockets

Never realised why this mistake is made so often but even whilst I know it is RATO, I mistakenly use JATO whenever I mean RATO

Not true. I used to fly a 172 that we’d use a CF 34 for JATO from a short grass field. I still hide the invoices from my wife….

That's Bouchs airfield

Yes theres quite a few of them on the net also on Hunters F5s etc. If I refind the link will post it later. They were on a page of a Swiss TV network and also in a link from the Swiss AF site.

Yes, the whole mounting with the rockets could be jettisoned in war times, i peace times the JATO was left on the plane and removed after landing.

They are most often jettisoned, the extra weight and drag is not optimal for flying.

@@MattesSPunktWrong. Nothing to do with war time or peace time. JATO bottles were most often JETTISONED, as they cause extra weight and drag. Around airfields, one would find used JATO bottles being used for ashtrays, chair legs, and all kinds of crafty repurposing, or just littering the ground for awhile until cleaned up.

​@@DoctorShocktorthey even said otherwise in the video. You can even see it at the end.

It became far too expensive, but Switzerland dreamed of an own nuclear strike force...

It has been done. Not for fun though. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G7LErwBNobU.htmlfeature=shared

you are probably right, RATO is the more precise term and used for Rocket Assisted Take Off... but in most of the swiss documentations they always speak about JATO

yes, they drop them when making a low pass on the turf runway

Not for KGB, for GRU.

KGB at that Time :)

too late Kamerad, too late xD

i fear the USA far more, as they killed millions of civilians worldwide just for their own greed for ressources.

Non, Jato ou SEPR 841 G, j’ai travaillé dessus quand j’étais élève dans L’Armée de l’Air à l’école technique de Rochefort. Cordialement

Why JATO ? It's no jet engine but a rocket motor.@@koreelarry4127

Jato= Jet-Assisted Take-Off, JATO Rato=. Rocket assister take-off. En fait, vous aviez également raison , cordialement

No. JATO as in jet assisted takeoff is referring to the historical usage of rockets being “jet propelled” or propelled by a “jet” of force. This term was used often in the early days of rocketry and is why the famous institution is called the JPL (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY). As well, the manufacturers of these rocket units LITERALLY LABEL them JATO units on the rockets and in their manuals. It does NOT refer to turbine “JET” engines. Some users such as the UK may have used the term RATO for their rocket bottles, but JATO was the more common term in the US and always refers to rocket bottles, there are no “JATO” engines that use jet turbines.

@@koreelarry4127Yes, civilians and particularly younger people often get it wrong.

You seem to already have and wearing them on your head..

Not the Swiss, but the Czechs once tried using a jet engine to clear snow from rail tracks. Worked, but cleared the ballast (Schotter) as well - so they went back to more traditional methods.

Swiss civil airlines used to go on high throttel by half pulled hand brake up and down the runway to clear from mist. That caused once a fire in the wheel box after take off and the plane crashed. (Würenlos air disaster)

Jet: a usually forceful stream of fluid (such as water or gas) discharged from a narrow opening or a nozzle. JATO means Jet Assisted Take Off - not Jet engine Assisted Take Off. JATO and technically correct RATO are used interchangeably but JATO just sounds much better in American English!

Why is that?

@@kukko83 Because it has a chocolate runway 🤣🤣 It melts during hot weather

@@runways_railways Oh, okay. 😁

They also say in the video that this was filmed in 1986.

That speaks volumes about the Mirage's aerodynamics. Mach 2 on just one engine in that day and age is quite a feat.

The Mirage III and MiG-21 were both designed and built almost along the same time lines. Given the engine technology of the time and the intended uses of these planes as interceptors, it's no real surprise both have very similar size and performance. The largest single difference of the two planes - the Mirage had 2x30mm cannon with 250 rounds. The MiG -21 had 1x30mm cannon with 30 rounds. Please have a look into the book: "MIRAGE III VS. MIG-21 IN THE SIX DAY WAR 1967" and you probably will think over again which aircraft is better 😉

@@Mortar74 nah, mig is better anyway

@@Mortar74 ten years from now on west countries will say "our weapons are better, take a look at Ukraine war" 🤣🤣🤣