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Nord griffon 1500 vs sa 9050 trident
Dear All,
Two French experimental planes from the fifties.
During the fifties France was called "LAND OF THE PROTOTYPES".
The reason was because many prototypes of jet aircraft reached flight status , some with excellent results but they never reached operational status mainly due to financial problems.
Europe nations had a strong fear at the time from Russian bombers that will penetrate their air defenses and bomb cities with atomic bombs.
The answer at the time was to create an interceptor that will be fast and with high rate of climb that will carry air to air missile that was designed to hit the bombers before they could reach their targets.
The Trident was powered by two rocket engines with two auxiliary jets at the wings edges while the nord griffon used a ramjet engine around atar turbojet.
Both experimental planes has an astonishing performance in terms of speed and rate of climb -mach 2 and 3 minutes to 50000 feet.
At the end it was decided to go instead on the Mirage III as it was more conventional and far less expansive to put into service.
Yair
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