British Aerospace P110
| BAe P110 | |
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| Type: | Multipurpose fighter |
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| First flight: |
not flown |
| Commissioning: |
not put into service |
| Production time: |
not built |
| Number of pieces: |
0 |
The British Aerospace P110 ( BAe P110 for short ) was an unrealized, single-seat, twin-engine aircraft project by the British manufacturer British Aerospace , which was supposed to replace the SEPECAT Jaguar fighter-bomber .
history
This project started in 1969 as Air Staff Target 396 (AST 396). After that the name changed several times, the project was also called AST 403 , later as European Combat Aircraft (ECA), and only finally as BAe P110. When it became clear that the P110 would not be built in its planned form, the successor program Advanced Combat Aircraft (ACA) was developed in Great Britain , which became the British participation in the Eurofighter Typhoon via the British Aerospace Experimental Aircraft Project .
The BAe P 110 was designed by the industry with future requirements in mind. The BAe P110 was funded by industry itself with no government support to meet the requirements of the United Kingdom and overseas governments (particularly those of the Commonwealth of Nations ). It was also seen as a means to make the most of the industry's capabilities and resources in the years to come, and when production of the Tornado came to an end, to maintain another production load. Among the companies involved were British Aerospace , Rolls-Royce , Lucas Aerospace, Smiths Industries, Marconi and Dowty (now part of Safran ) and Ferranti .
Economic background
The industry saw this aircraft as the third member of a family of fighter aircraft based on tornado technology, but which would make significant technological advances beyond the tornado. The project was planned as a twin- engine , single-seat fighter-bomber to be powered by an improved version of the Tornado's Turbo-Union RB199 engine. Approximately 40% of the P110 airframe, including the wings, should be made of carbon fiber composites and the aircraft should have an active fly-by-wire control system. In both respects, the project would have benefited from the advances made by BAe in these two areas.
British Aerospace's confidence that the BAe P110 could become a top seller was demonstrated by the funds already invested in the BAe P110 by everyone involved, with British Aerospace having invested £ 9 million by 1982 . In 1982, without government commitment to the project, the costs would quickly become unacceptable, which is why an early letter of intent was essential. In addition, by the end of the decade, at least 50,000 jobs in the aerospace industry and its suppliers in the supply and service industries are likely to depend on it.
Ferranti has been involved in many of the technologies that would be used to equip the BAe P110, including the inertial navigation system , advanced electronic and mobile map displays, laser aiming devices and radar.
technology
The BAe P110 was a single-seat aircraft project with canards at mid-height immediately after the air inlets, deep double delta wings and square side air intakes, two inclined outward vertical stabilizers to a conventional chassis, each with a einräderigen main landing gear . On drawings the nose landing gear is shown with one wheel, in the built model ( scale 1: 1) the nose landing gear was provided with two wheels. An infrared-guided air-to-air missile was attached to each wing tip. The on-board cannon was integrated into the fuselage, the muzzle was on the right underside of the fuselage in front of the main landing gear. Radar-controlled air-to-air medium-range missiles could be installed under the fuselage. Stations for additional tanks, containers with unguided air-to-ground missiles and double carriers with unguided free-fall bombs were also provided under the wings. The cockpit had a head-up display and multifunction displays .
literature
- Bill Gunston: Warplanes of the Future . 1988, ISBN 0-517-46960-X .