IAI Nescher
IAI Nescher | |
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IAI Finger at Air Fest 2010 |
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Type: | Single seat fighter |
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First flight: |
September 1969 |
Production time: |
1971 to 1974 |
Number of pieces: |
61 |
The military aircraft IAI Nescher ( griffon vulture , popularly also eagle in Hebrew: נשר) or Dagger was built in Israel according to the plans of the French Dassault Mirage 5 .
description
After the Six Day War , France imposed an arms embargo on Israel and Mirage 5 aircraft that had already been ordered could no longer be delivered. Since the Israeli Air Force (IAF) urgently needed new aircraft, the newly founded Israel Aircraft Industries developed the "Nescher" from existing components and partly from construction plans for the Mirage 5 and its Atar 9C engine obtained through spying in Switzerland . It was, apart from some Israeli avionics parts and the Martin-Baker - ejection seat , a copy of the Mirage, which in Israel as Ra'am A was called.
The first aircraft took off on its maiden flight in September 1969. From May 1971, 51 single-seat fighters and 10 two-seat training aircraft were delivered to the IAF , which successfully asserted themselves against the attackers' MiG and Sukhoi aircraft in the 1973 Yom Kippur War , with around 15 aircraft being lost. Later, the further development Kfir with the American GE J79 (Starfighter) engine and revised avionics was created.
1978-1980 the remaining Nescher machines were for a modernization of Argentina sold 39 single-seat fighter as Dagger A and four two-seat training aircraft as Dagger B . The fleet was - partly rebuilt again to the model Finger (similar to Kfir) - used in the Falklands War and caused considerable damage to the British Navy. The destroyer Antrim and the frigates Ardent (later sunk) and Plymouth were badly affected ; other ships suffered minor damage. Eleven daggers / fingers were shot down, nine of them by Sea-Harrier .
variants
- Ra'am-A
- Basic variant of the Nesher as a direct replica of the Mirage 5 with J79 engine
- Nesher S.
- single-seat fighter-bomber for the IAF
- Nesher T
- two-seat trainer for the IAF
- Dagger A
- modernized single-seat fighter-bomber for the Argentine Air Force
- Dagger B.
- modernized two-seat trainer for the Argentine Air Force
- Finger i
- modernized variant for the Argentine Air Force
- Finger II
- modernized variant for the Argentine Air Force
- Finger III
- modernized variant for the Argentine Air Force
Military users
- Argentina - Argentine Air Force ( Fuerza Aérea Argentina )
- 35 × "Dagger A"
- 4 × "Dagger B"
- Israel - Israeli Air Force (IAF)
- 51 × "Nesher S"
- 10 × "Nesher T"
Technical specifications
Parameter | Data |
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length | 14.75 m |
span | 8.22 m |
height | 4.25 m |
Wing area | 34.8 m² |
Empty mass | 6,600 kg |
Max. Takeoff mass | 13,700 kg |
drive | 1 SNECMA Atar 9c jet engine with 6,000 kp static thrust |
Top speed | 2.2 Mach |
Range | 2,600 km |
Service ceiling | 17,680 m |
Armament
- 2 × 30 mm automatic revolver cannons Israel Military Industries (IMI), license production of DEFA 553 with 140 rounds each
Armament up to 4,000 kg at seven external suspension stations under the two wings and under the fuselage
Air-to-air guided missiles
- 2 × launch rails for 1 × infrared-controlled short-range air-to-air guided missile Matra R.550 "Magic I" each
- 2 × launch rails for 1 × infrared-controlled short-range air-to-air guided missile Ford AIM-9P "Sidewinder" each
- 2 × launch rails for 1 × infrared-controlled short-range air-to-air guided missile Rafael "Shafir I" each
Unguided air-to-surface missiles
- 2 × Matra 155 rocket launchers for 18 × unguided air-to-surface missiles SNEB ; Caliber 68 mm
- 2 × Matra JL-100 rocket launchers, each with 19 × unguided SNEB air-to-surface missiles, caliber 68 mm; combined with a disposable additional tank for 250 liters (66 US gallons) of kerosene
Unguided bombs
- 2 × Mk.83 (454 kg free-fall bombs )
- 6 × Mk.82 (227 kg free-fall bombs)
- 10 × Mk.81 (113 kg free-fall bombs)
Additional container
- 2 × subsonic underwing drop tanks for 1300/1100 liters of kerosene
- 2 × supersonic under wing additional tanks for 500 liters of kerosene
- 1 × drop-off lower hull additional tank for 600 liters of kerosene
See also
Web links
- IAI - NESCHER (1971–1981)
- GlobalSecurity: Nescher
Individual evidence
- ↑ FliegerRevue March 2009, pp. 30–34, IAI Kfir - The lion still roars