Specifications

210 × 297 mm, 160 pages  in full colour, 445 photographs, 32 artworks

ISBN 978 0 946958 51 1

Price £25.00 net

Jaguar Squadrons

RICHARD L. WARD

with Yves Fauconnier

Foreword by Wing Commander David Sullivan OBE MSc

Dick Ward’s long-awaited follow-up to Lightning Squadrons of the Royal Air Force has finally arrived, and for the first time in this long-established sequence of titles he considers a postwar combat aircraft in terms of its worldwide service across six different air arms; in this endeavour he has been able to call upon Yves Fauconnier, whose splendid photographs of Armée de l’Air aircraft are shown to advantage in the book, Simon Watson, whose collection of Indian Air Force images is well to the fore, and of course a veritable army of other photographers who have generously permitted their work to be reproduced within.

Each air force covered is accorded a separate section, and the squadrons are arranged in numerical order for each nation. The author provides expert commentary on the astonishing range of colour schemes that the Jaguar has sported over the thirty-plus years since it first arrived on the scene, and highlights the various weapons fits and other equipment that it has carried during its career.

Although recently retired from service with the Royal Air Force and Armée de l’Air, the Jaguar continues to be an effective weapon in the Indian and Omani armouries, and indeed is scheduled to remain so for some time yet