uprated and more economical Adour 106
engines. With these modifications, the
GR1 became a GR3A and the T2 a T4.
The Jaguar was withdrawn from RAF
service as a cost-saving measure, two
years earlier than planned in 2007.Jaguar International
Dassault took over Breguet in 1971 and
then the relationship with BAC became
difficult, as Dassault regarded their 50%
share in Jaguar unfavourably in contrast to
their own Mirage F1, which they wholly
produced. This manifested itself inDassault competing against Jaguar with
its Mirage for many overseas contracts,
which on some occasions had the
opposite effect of allowing American
aircraft to win the order. In 1980 British
Aerospace obtained full rights from
Dassault to export Jaguar, but often this
was then in direct opposition to the
Mirage F1.
The Jaguar International based on the
RAF version was announced at the 1974
Farnborough Air Show. The first
production RAF Jaguar S1, XX108, which
was retained for trials, was presented
statically at the Show as the prototype of
this version with a huge variety of
weapons on display, including an Agave
radar nose as later fitted to the Indian Air
Forces Jaguar IM variant. Trials of the
actual Jaguar International specification
on XX108 began the following year with
Adour 804s installed, providing amuch-improved performance with Magic
missiles on over-wing mountings which
allowed the full range of weapons to be
carried on the under-wing positions.Export orders
Ecuador and Oman each ordered ten
Jaguar single-seaters and two trainers for
delivery in 1977-78. Oman re-ordered the
same number in 1980 which were all
delivered by the end of 1983. The first
production Jaguar International, a
twin-seater for Ecuador FAE283
temporarily registered as G27-266 flew in
August 1976. After steady usage by 1991
the Ecuadorian Air Force only had nine
Jaguars flying and so topped up its fleet
with three attrition replacements GR1s
from RAF which were refurbished by BAe
at Warton. However in 2004 Ecuador
withdrew its aircraft from service. In a
similar fashion, Oman added to its Jaguar80 The Aircraft of British Aerospace and BAE SYSTEMS 1977 - 2017
FAE302, one of
twelve Ecuadorian
Jaguars, on
approach to land.
They were operated
from 1977 until- (BAE SYSTEMS
North West Heritage)