[hyair]

The Super Etendard was developed from the Etendard IV of the french aeronaval.
The Super Etendard started to get into service in the late 70's. Argentina bought 5
of these naval attack fighters and when the Falkland war started they were ready.
The main weapon of the SE was the aerospaceial excocet missile.
The SE had a very good naval maping radar named Agave that could identify naval ships
from more than 40 km distance and when fired the missile had an internal guidance system
that was tracking the target alone -so the SE could turn back to base with impunity and
without even coming close to the british task force which used the sea harrier with big
success. Of course in order to avoid detection the SE flew at very low level.
In this way the HMS Sheffield and a few other british ships were badly bit.

Attached here more photos of the SE in 1:48 scale.
The excocet missile will be add later.

Yair