Breguet Br. 1050 Alizé
| Breguet Br. 1050 Alizé | |
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| Type: | Submarine fighter plane |
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| First flight: |
October 6, 1956 |
| Commissioning: |
May 1959 |
| Production time: |
1957-1962 |
| Number of pieces: |
89 |
The Breguet Br.1050 Alizé was a carrier-based French single-engine submarine fighter aircraft produced from 1957 . It was remotely based on the prototype of the Breguet 960 Vultur .
description
The Alizé was a conventional low-wing aircraft. She had a CSF radar with retractable antennas in the fuselage and a crew of three (pilot, radar operator and sensor operator). The nose wheel chassis was retractable. Sonar buoys could be accommodated in the front part . For landing on aircraft carriers, the Alizé was equipped with a catch hook.
The internal weapon bay could be equipped with a torpedo or depth charges. Bombs, depth charges, rockets and missiles could be carried under the wings, for example anti-ship missiles of the type Aerospatiale SS.12 / AS.12.
history
The first flight took place on October 6, 1956. 89 aircraft were built between 1957 and 1962. 75 machines were delivered to the French Navy, twelve more machines to the Indian Air Force . From 1959 they were used on the aircraft carriers Clémenceau and Foch .
The Indian Navy used the Alizé on the light aircraft carrier INS Vikrant . On December 18, 1961, Indian troops marched into the Portuguese colony of Goa with about 20 times the strength . The Alizé took over patrol flights over Goa. India intervened in the Civil War in East Pakistan in December 1971 in favor of an independent Bangladesh , resulting in the 3rd Indo-Pakistani War . An Alizé was shot down by a Pakistani F-104 Starfighter . At the end of the 1980s, the Alizé was retired in India and replaced by ASW helicopters.
The French Navy, however, modernized the Alizé with a Thomson CSF Iguane radar and ARAR 12 position radar. In the 1990s, the aircraft received new electronics and infrared sensors.
The last war operation took place in the Kosovo war in 1999 from the aircraft carrier Foch. In 2000 the Alizé was finally decommissioned.
Military use
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
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| crew | 3 |
| length | 13.86 m |
| span | 15.60 m |
| height | 4.75 m |
| Wing area | 36 m² |
| Empty mass | 5700 kg |
| Max. Takeoff mass | 8250 kg |
| Cruising speed | 240-370 km / h |
| Top speed | 475 km / h |
| Service ceiling | 6250 m |
| Range | 2500 km |
| Engines | 1 × turboprop Rolls-Royce Dart RDa.21 with 1565 kW |
| Armament | Torpedo or depth charges. Bombs, missiles or anti-ship missiles |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jane's Civil and Military Upgrades 1994-95. Michell 1994, pp. 57-58.