The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard is a French carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft designed by Dassault-Breguet for service with the French Navy. The aircraft is an advanced development of the Étendard IVM.
- Role: Carrier-borne, strike aircraft
- National origin: France
- Manufacturer: Dassault-Brequet
- First flight: 28 October 1974
- Introduction: June 1978
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1977–1983
- Number built: 85
- Developed from: Dassault-Brequet Étendard IVM
Military Operators
- Argentine Naval Aviation 14 aircraft
- Aviation Navale 71 aircraft
- Iraqi Air Force was lent five French aircraft between 1983 and 1985; four returned to France in 1985.
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 14.31 m (45 ft 11½ in)
- Wingspan: 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in)
- Height: 3.86 m (12 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 28.4 m² (306.7 ft²)
- Empty weight: 6,500 kg (14,330 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 12,000 kg (26,455 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × SNECMA Atar 8K-50 turbojet, 49.0 kN (11,025 lbf)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 1,000 km/h (637 knots, 733 mph) at low level
- Range: 1,820 km (983 nmi, 1,130 mi)
- Combat radius: 850 km (460 nmi, 530 mi) with one AM39 Exocet missile one wing pylon and one drop tank on opposite pylon, hi-lo-hi profile
- Service ceiling: 13,700 m (44,900 ft)
- Rate of climb: 100 m/s (19,700 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 423 kg/m² (86.3 lb/ft²)
- Thrust/weight: 0.42
Armament
- Guns: 2× 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA 552 cannons with 125 rounds per gun
- Hardpoints: 4× underwing and 2× under-fuselage with a capacity of 2,100 kg (4,600 lb) maximum
- Rockets: 4× Matra rocket pods with 18× SNEB 68 mm rockets each
- Missiles:
- 1× AM-39 Exocet Anti-shipping missile or
- 1× Air-Sol Moyenne Portée nuclear armed missile or
- 2× AS-30L or
- 2× Matra Magic Air-to-air missile
- Bombs: Conventional unguided or laser-guided bombs, provision for 1 × AN-52 free-fall nuclear bomb, provision for “buddy” air refuelling pod
