Dassault -Breguet Super Étendard

what is it?

The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard (Étendard is French for "battle flag", cognate to English "standard") is a French retired carrier-borne strike fighter aircraft designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault-Breguet. It was primarily used by the French Navy, and was also operated by Iraq (on a temporary lease) and Argentina. The Super Étendard was developed during the 1970s after French officials decided against procuring a navalised version of the SEPECAT Jaguar.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · 9.6 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 1,205 km/htop speed
• range 1,820 kmwithout refuelling
• size 12 tmax take-off weight
• built 85made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 52 years ago, in 1974.
• 🏎️Top speed is 9.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 9.6 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 1,820 km: 10× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.5× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1974-10-28

introduced

1978

retired

2016

status

retired

number built

85

role

strike aircraft

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Dassault Aviation

engines

1× Snecma Atar 8K-50

crew

1

length

14.3 m

wingspan

9.6 m

height

3.9 m

max take-off weight

12 t

top speed

1,205 km/h

range

1,820 km

ceiling

13,700 m

wings

monoplane

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.