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Issue 1
December 2021
NE
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FEATURING
IPMS UK
COLUMN
A VENTURA ADVENTURE
Revell’s 1/48 Mk.II
ISSUE 1
ON THE
COVER
Rene Van
Der Hart’s
1:48 Tamiya
P-38H
Lightning
PLUTO’S P-38
Tamiya’s Superb 1/48 Kit
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WAR COLOURS • 1:48 HOBBYBOSS DASSAULT RAFALE B • 1:48 TAMIYA F-16C/N
DECEMBER 2021
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NAVY ONE
AMT’s 1/48 Presidential
S-3A Viking
BLACK HEART
SWEDISH SKIER!
ICM’s 1/32 Arctic Gladiator
Copper State Models
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REGULARS
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THE NEWSSTAND
All the latest news from the world
of Aviation Modelling
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CZECH NEWS
The Czech News round-up by Tim
Upson-Smith
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IN THE BOX
We take a look in the box of new
and upcoming releases
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ACCESSORIES
The latest accessories on show
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DECALS
The latest decal releases
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IPMS (UK)
News from the IPMS (UK)
presented by Chris Ayre
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COMING SOON
What’s in store for next month!
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Upcoming modelling shows
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FRENCH
JAGUARS AT
WAR!
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FRENCH JAGUARS
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FRENCH
JAGUARS
AFRICAN AND COLONIAL
OPERATIONS
AT WAR!
four Mirage FICs and a single C-135F
were also operational from N’Djamena,
followed later by a Breguet Atlantic.
The Jaguars went into action on 2
September 1983, ‘buzzing’ rebel forces
that were attacking Oum Chalouba,
their remit being only to deter the
attackers. On 25 January 1984, however,
before the ‘Mamba’ forces could
intervene, the insurgents overran
the Chadian army garrison at Ziguey,
and the French reaction was swift.
That morning two Jaguars, escorted
by two Mirage F.1s and refuelled by a
C-135F, were despatched to find the
aggressors, and successfully located
a twenty-vehicle rebel convoy near
Torodoum. The aircraft kept the convoy
I
n French service, the Jaguar
bared its claws on a number of
occasions, and it was the French
who first blooded’ the ‘cat’.
Soon after Chad, a poor, landlocked
country in north central Africa, gained
its independence from France in
1960, fighting broke out. Four veteran
Douglas Skyraider’s were despatched
to Djibouti and provided air support,
a detachment that was enlarged in
March 1969. This period, the first of
France’s ‘Chad interventions’, ended in
September 1972. However, in 1973, Libya
annexed a sixty-two mile (100km) wide
strip in northern Chad, which could
provide bases for Libyan forces and
Chadian rebels. Tensions arising from
this action remained high and French
aircraft remained on detachment at
Djibouti until 1975. Three years later,
in April 1978, the French were back
again. Under Operation ‘Tacaud’,
eight of the EC 3/11 Jaguars were then
deployed for Operation ‘Lamentin’ at
Dakar in Senegal and were detached
to N’Djamena to back up the ailing
Chadian government. A further twelve
Jaguars from EC 2/11 ‘Vosges’ arrived
in Djibouti in late April 1978. French
forces subsequently lost a Jaguar to an
SA-7 ‘Grail’ SAM on 31 May, a second
during a reconnaissance flight on 8
August, a third in a collision on 23
August and a fourth on 14 October.
Further incursions in Chad led to
Operation ‘Mamba’ on 12 August
1983, when, as part of a larger tri-
service force, with four Jaguars from
EC 4/11 ‘Jura’ stationed at Libreville
in Gabon, with four other Jaguars,
three C-135F tankers and two Breguet
Atlantic aircraft being based at Bangui
Airport, Djibouti. By 21 August, six
other Jaguars, from EC 3/11 ‘Corse’,
under surveillance, and while the jets
awaited orders, the rebels Fired SA-7s
at them with no effect. An hour later,
authorisation was finally given to a
similar formation of two Jaguars and
two Mirages to stop the convoy. During
the action one of the Jaguars was
struck in its main hydraulic system by
23mm gunfire (although other reports
indicate that it may have been hit by
an SA-7). Despite ejecting, its pilot was
killed as his aircraft, which was in a
tight banking turn just prior to being
hit, was too close to the ground for a
safe ejection. The remaining Jaguar
and the two Mirages strafed the convoy,
stopping it, despite one of the F.1s also
being damaged by gunfire. Following
this incident further
troops, helicopters,
Mirages and Jaguars
were sent to Chad
to counter any other
aggression, going onto
full alert for possible
operations against
Libya. Nevertheless, a further Jaguar
was lost on 16 April during a probing
flight sixty-two miles from the ‘Red
Line’, after hitting a sand dune near
Faya Largeau. The French withdrew
their forces in the September.
mission of what they termed Operation
‘Épervier’ (Sparrowhawk) at 8:00am on
16 February 1985, when eight Jaguars of
EC 3/11 ‘Corse’ flew from their Djibouti
base, covered by Mirage F.1Cs and
refuelled by a C-135F, in a five-hour
round trip to attack the rebel airfield.
Six of the Jaguars, each carrying two
1,200 litre fuel tanks, a Phimat chaff
dispenser, a Barracuda ECM pod and
Lacroix tail cone flare launcher, dropped
eighteen Thomson-Brandt BAP 100
runway cratering munitions with great
accuracy, the other two Jaguars being
armed with 400kg retarded bombs
instead of BAPs. In response, a Libyan
Tu-22 ‘Blinder’ bombed N’Djamena
air- port, causing a brief halt in in its
ANOTHER JAGUAR CRASHED SOON AFTER
TAKE-OFF FROM BANJUI AIRPORT, ON
27 MARCH, ITS PILOT EJECTING AFTER
REPORTING A TECHNICAL FAILURE
operations. On 7 January, in response
to an air raid by Libyan MiC-21s and
MiG-23s, another major air strike was
mounted. This time Libyan-operated
radar installations at the Ouadi Doum
airfield were hit by ten Jaguars of EC
4/11 (although some sources say EC 3/3),
armed with Martel anti-radar missiles,
in company with Mirage 51s and
reconnaissance Mirage F.1CRs. Another
Jaguar crashed soon after take-off from
Banjui airport, on 27 March, its pilot
ejecting after reporting a technical
failure. Tragically, the crippled fighter
hit an Islamic school on the outskirts
of the city, killing twenty-one people.
During 1987 the Chadian army pushed
back the rebels, supported again by
OPERATION ‘ÉPERVIER’
Within weeks of the departure of
the last of the French forces from
N’Djamena in November 1984, the
Libyans began, with East German
assistance, to construct a military
airfield at Quadi Doum in northern
Chad. It was completed in 1985 and
provided with Soviet-built radar
systems including ‘Flat Face’, ‘Spoon
Rest’, ‘Long Track’ and ‘Straight Flush’,
together with SA-6 ‘Gainful’ SAMs, and
23mm and 14.7mm AAA batteries. Once
again at the request of the president
of Chad, elements of the French army,
navy and air force stationed in Djibouti
were put on full alert to support their
African ally. By the middle of February,
twelve Jaguar As from EC 2/11, FC 3/11
and EC 4/11, four Mirage F.1Cs, three
C-135F tankers and six C.160 Transall’s
were ready to be called upon if needed.
Indeed, the French launched the first
the French Jaguars and Mirages,
and despite other incursions, which
resulted in a HAWK battery downing
a Libyan Tu-22, the war virtually
ended with the army overrunning
rebel positions and capturing no fewer
than twenty-three Libyan aircraft.
Although tension now eased, Jaguars
and C.160s remained at Djibouti on
semi-permanent detachment in case of
further incursions. Other operations
saw Jaguars support former French
colonies in Mauritania, Togo and
the Ivory Coast. EC 3/11 flew three
Jaguars on a ‘proving trip’ to Djibouti
in 1975, followed by a further sortie to
Senegal and the Ivory Coast in 1976.
Jaguars also participated in exercises
in Gabon with Operation
‘Estuaire’ in the Ivory
Coast with Operation
‘Bandama’ in Togo with
Operation ‘Mangrove’,
and in Senegal,
Operation ‘Murene’.
EC 3/11 was deployed
to Dakar, Senegal, in October 1977
when aircraft operated against rebel
forces in Mauritania in Operation
‘Lamentin’, acting against Algerian-
backed Polisario guerrillas. Two
Jaguars were shot down in December
1977, and another on 3 May 1978,
during a fourth French air strike
against guerrilla positions. On 24 June
1994, as part of the United Nations
humanitarian effort in the beleaguered
African country of Rwanda, ten
Jaguar As deployed to the Ivory
Coast under Operation ‘Turquoise’.
OPERATION ‘DAGUET’
The largest Jaguar operator in
Operation Desert Storm was the
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FEATURES
SPEEDY BUILD
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A Snake With Bite
Floyd S. Werner, Jr. builds ICM’s 1:32 AH-1G Cobra (Early
Production)
COMBAT FILE
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Daguet Jaguar
Snorre Sandviken builds the 1:48 Kitty Hawk Jaguar A in Gulf
War colours
1:48 SCALE
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Ventura Adventure
Jeroen Burger builds the 1:48 Revell Lockheed Ventura Mk.II
1:48 SCALE
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Rafale for Two
Barry Koervers builds the 1:48 HobbyBoss Dassault Rafale B
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‘Navy One’
Lee Powell builds the AMT/Ertl 1:48 Lockheed Viking S-3A that
carried President George W Bush aboard the USS Abraham
Lincoln in 2004 using CAM Decals
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Tooled Up Viper
Alex Roughsedge add lots of details to the 1:48 Tamiya
F-16C/N
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Pluto’s P-38
Rene Van Der Hart takes a look at the super 1:48 Tamiya P-38H
Lightning
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Silver Wings ‘Black Heart’
Tim Upson-Smith builds the 1:32 Copper State Models
Nieuport XVII Late
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Swedish Skier
James Ashton builds the 1:32 ICM Gloster Gladiator Mk.II
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