Aircraft Of Foreign Countries

 


France Aircraft


Trainers
 

 
Type: Hanriot H.431 two seat intermediate trainer.
Max Speed: 112 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 16,075 ft
Range: 280 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: S.H.A.A.
The H.431 was an important element of the French training effort in the 1930s

 
Type: Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000B two seat operational conversion trainer.
Max Speed: 1,453 mph at 39,370 ft.
Climb Rate: 55,775 ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 59,055 ft.
Range: 1,150 miles.
Armament: up to 13,889 lb of disposable bombs.
Photo: SIRPA
This Mirage 2000B sports on its fin the seamew insignia of SPA-57 one of the three squadrons that make up the strength of Eascadre de Chasse et de Transformation 2/2 "cote d'Or".

 

Type: Nord N.3202 two seat primary trainer.
Max Speed: 161 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 1,181 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling:
Range: 621 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: Coll B. Thouanel
The N.3202 possessed no exceptional commercial or technical features, but was nonetheless a useful primary trainer that served the French army reliably over a period of several years.

 

Type: Mudry CAP 10B two seat elementary and aerobatic trainner.
Max Speed: 168 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 1,180+ ft per minute.
Service Ceiling: 16,405.
Range: 746 miles.
Armament: None
Photo: F. Robineau
These aircraft serve with three air force units, and one French navy unit operates six examples of the same model

 

Type: Fouga CM.170-1 Magister two seat basic trainer with light attack capability.
Max Speed: 414 mph at 30,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 3,345 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 36,090 ft.
Range: 575 miles.
Armament: two 7.5 or 7.62 mm o.205 or o.3 in machine guns and up to 221 lb of disposable stores.
Photo: SIRPA/Air
Israel used its aircraft for light attack in wars with its Arab neighbors.

 

Type: Aerospatiale CM..175 Zephyr two seat Carrierborne and shore based trainer.
Max Speed: 414 mph at 30,000 ft.
Climb Rate: 2,950 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 36,090 ft.
Range: 735 miles.
Armament: generally none.
Photo: B. Thouanel
The French navy's premier CM.175 unit is the 59e Escadrille de Sevitude based at Hyeres, and operates 12 from pool of 23 Zephyrs for the training of naval pilots.

 

Type: Jodel D.140E Mousquetaire IV four seat trainer and
utility light plane.
Max Speed: 158 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 775 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 16,405 ft.
Range: 870 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: D. R.
This type has fixed tail wheel landing gear, and construction is basically of wood with fabric covering.

 

Type: Aerospatiale Epsilon two seat primary/basic trainer.
Max Speed: 236 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 18,50 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 23,000 ft.
Range: 792 miles.
Armament: up to 661 lb of disposable stores.
Photo: Aerospatiale
The Epsilon has a cockpit layout modeled on that of a fast jet to acclimatize the trainee pilots to the concept of military aircraft.

 

Type: Hanriot H.232.2Et.2 two seat advanced trainer.
Max Speed: 208 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 24,605 ft.
Range: 746 miles
Armament: none.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The French air force received 35 before the defeat of June 1940 and, apart from three delivered to Finland by the Germans, these were soon scrapped by the occupying forces.

 

Type: Hanriot HD.14Et.2 two seat primary trainer.
Max Speed: 68 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 13,125 ft.
Range: 112 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
Though intended as a trainer, the HD.14 was also used for liaison as indicated by this photo of an HD.14 in Morocco during the Riffian war of the 1920's

 

Type: Morane-Saulnier MS.315Et.2 two seat primary trainer.
Max Speed: 106 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 18,045 ft.
Range:
Armament: none.
Photo: F. Robineua
Apart from its civil registration, 220-hp American radial, a tail wheel in place of the original skid and the glider towing hook, this  MS.317 is externally identical with the MS.317 used so successfully and so long by the French air force and navy for the primary training of pilots.

 

Type: Percival Proctor MK IV three/four seat radio trainer and communications plane.
Max Speed: 160 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 700 ft. per minute.
Service Ceiling: 14,000 ft.
Range: 500 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: RAF Museum
With fully enclosed accommodation, the Proctor Mk IV was for its time a modern communications type that also proved very successful as a radio trainer.

 

Type: Dassault Breguet/Domier Alpha Jet two seat basic/advancen flying weapon trainer
Max Speed: 621 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 30,000 ft in less than 7 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 48,000 ft.
Range: radius 764 miles.
Armament: provision for more than 5,511 lb of disposable stores carried externally.
Photo: MDBA
In 1969 the French and West Germans announced a joint requirement for a new aircraft able to undertake the basic/advanced trainer and the light attack and reconnaissance roles. This alpha Jet E is on the strength of the French fighter school based at Tours.

 

 

Trainers Fighters Attack & Close Support
Interceptors / Air superiority

 

 

Bombers  Reconnaissance Transports / Electronic

 

 

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