ATL3 Atlantique Maritime Patrol Aircraft

The Atlantique ATL3 maritime patrol aircraft, incorporates an enhanced weapon way to do having a maximum 9,000kg payload, new technology engines, glass cockpit and sophisticated avionics and sensors.

The primary mission of these Atlantique is anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, but secondary roles consist of search and rescue, mine laying and detection and long range maritime surveillance.

The Atlantique ATL3 has four underwing hardpoints having a total capacity of 3,500kg for carrying missiles. In addition, it has a huge weapon bay along with other capacity to carry a maximum internal payload of 5,500kg, and can carry a range of ordnance and equipment to support deployment for out of area operations.

Various combinations of payloads could be loaded at the weapons bay having a option of: up to eight NATO torpedoes; two Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles; four Harpoon air-to-surface missiles; six mines (either 250kg or 500kg; eight anti-submarine warfare depth charges; 12 search and rescue containers; 200 sonobuoys; and 70 markers.

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Alpha Jet French/German Jet Trainer

Alpha Jet French/German Jet Trainer Photos

The Alpha Jet is a French / German jet trainer. That is, the French version is a trainer, and German is primarily a strike aircraft, replacing the Fiat G.91. The Alpha Jet is a twin-engine plane with a high setting, the moderate wing sweep. The Alpha Jet shows that an aircraft does not have to be a technological marvel that an effective fighter. Simple, cheap and easy to maintain, the Alpha Jet is well suited to low-intensity warfare.

The state of the art ground attack and attack aircraft are not cheap, and many air forces or capabilities of the Tornado Strike Eagle would be lost. However, there is much less expensive aircraft, often designed for different purposes, they are able to carry out ground attack missions in low threat environments.

The Alpha Jet is a Dassault-Breguet/Dornier coach Franco-German advanced was designed to have a secondary attack role. Indeed, German Alpha Jets are almost exclusively as a close support aircraft car, coach or aircraft weapons battlefield reconnaissance. Weapons load and avionics do not match the most advanced aircraft, but the Alpha Jet is easy to handle, easy to fly and easy to maintain. The Alpha Jet has been sold to several countries in Africa and the Middle East.

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Dassault Mirage 4000 Jet Fighter Aircraft

Dassault Mirage 4000 Jet Fighter Aircraft Photos

The Mirage 4000 made use of the aerodynamic source computer control system with a fly-by-wire active and a center of gravity backwards. It was designed to be easy to maintain at airports forward. They also had a variable incidence sweptback foreplanes blister and a cockpit with a field of view of 360 °. Compounds of boron and carbon fiber is widely used in the fin, rudder, flaps, fuselage panels access foreplanes and elsewhere.

The wings were large radius root fairings. The entire trailing edge of each wing flaps was taken by two sections. Variable inclination was provided by fully automatic edge-span flaps. The rear fuselage was shorter, which made Karman fairings unnecessary. The rudder, ailerons, flaps and control system drives the fly-by-wire. The vertical fin was made of the fuel tanks and contents of carbon composite, which helped make the 4000 about three times more internal fuel as the Mirage 2000 (from other fuel tanks were on the wings and fuselage).

The fuselage was of conventional semi-monocoque structure. Type air brake door is in each intake trunk above the edges of the main wings. The tricycle landing gear was designed by Messier-Hispano-Bugatti and had twin nose and a single wheel on each unit. Each had a moving average intake centerbody cone. The two M53s provided a thrust-to-weight off 1:01 - if you had entered service, it would have been equivalent to the F-15 or Su-27.

Wherever possible, avionics systems and adapted to the Mirage 2000. The hydraulic system was made by Messier-Hispano-Bugatti, and was pressurized to 280 bars (4,000 lb / sq in). It was powered by four advanced pumps and used lightweight titanium pipelines. The Mirage 4000 Auxilec also used two electric generators. In a compartment behind the pilot was a Palouste Turbomeca gas turbine APU (to start the engines).

The prototype uses the same RDM multi-mode Doppler radar as the Mirage 2000, but radar as large as 80 cm (31.5 in) in diameter, could fit in the dome of the big nose. Other avionics included a digital autopilot, multi-mode displays, a SAGEM Uliss INS 52, Crouzet type 80 air data computer, a VE-130 HUD Thomson-CSF, and an automated digital delivery system of weapons.

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Mirage 2000 French Air Force Fighter

Mirage 2000 French Air Force Fighter Photos

Introduced into operational service of the French Air Force in 1984 as air defense variant (Mirage 2000 C and B), the Mirage 2000 is praised by all operators. The quality and safety of its flight control system and ease of maintenance that arose in the top of the world references in this field.

These qualities, combined with extreme robustness led Dassault Aviation and its partners to move forward with your aircraft weapon system, taking into account the emergence of new business requirements and the availability of new technologies.

In 1986, another version called the Mirage 2000 N, became operational service, to perform the nuclear mission. With the Mirage 2000 D version called two versions both responded to a specific need for low altitude penetration of the French Air Force. Both featured double seat configuration and terrain-following radar.

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Dassault Rafale Multi-role fighter

Dassault Rafale Multi-role fighter Photos

The Dassault Rafale is a Multi-role fighter and relatively small plane carrying a heavy load. The Rafale has an empty operating weight of about 22,000 pounds and was initially designed with a maximum takeoff weight of 49,600 pounds. That figure has now increased to 54,000 pounds, and Dassault is preparing a jump of more than 60,000 pounds.

Without fuel or weapons, a Rafale weighs about 3,000 kilos more than a F-16C, but can take 10,000 pounds heavier. This allows the Rafale to carry up to 21,000 pounds of external stores, in addition to 9,000 pounds of internal fuel. With two fuel tanks as holding a total of 600 U.S. gallons fuel - designed and tested in flight by Dassault for its campaign to win the competition of Korea combat - the Rafale can perform an attack mission 1. 000 nm radius, carrying both heavy air-surface weapons and air-air missiles.

Despite these possibilities, the Rafale has failed to win a single export order to date, although they came very close to the campaigns of the UAE and Korea. Singapore is nearing a decision on a future combat aircraft high end. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), apparently picked up much of the available market in the world, at least for now, so that Singapore, which wants the aircraft before the JSF is ready, it a unique opportunity for European contenders such as the Eurofighter Typhoon and its French rival, the Rafale.

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