BIEN

1. SEA HARRIER FRS.1
HISTORY
Naval Aviation British has had a slow death, losing its fighter squadrons fixed
wing at least twice, in the seventies the last aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
retired, leaving if coverage air fleet, with much work yu no few tricks, the
Admiralty managed to recover some of the combat power of the fleet, with a
couple of "cruisers clear deck", a euphemism to deceive the bureaucrats and
afford to build new aircraft carriers, to equip these vessels, it was decided use a
derivative of Harrier of the RAF, a multipurpose aircraft vertical takeoff, so I
emerged the Sea Harrier, which appeared in one of the most desperate
moments of modern history of Britain, the first devices were indispensable to
recover the Falkland islands , giving insufficient protection screen aerial fleet,
demolishing a large number of Argentine aircraft, but there was never enough
aircraft to provide adequate CAP and many planes could slip.
Although from the beginning of the development of the Harrier in the sixties it
was thought in its board use tests being carried off and landing on conventional
aircraft carrier, the elimination of the Fleet Air Arm in the seventies, ended the
naval development, almost a step-decade until it could reconstitute units fixed
wing, reconstituting the 797 Squadron, with Sea Harriers training and
preproduction fighters, for the first ship of the class,
The BAe Sea Harrier FRS1 was designed with no few complications, the Harrier
had entered the service of the RAF in the late seventies, immediately proved to
be a magnificent instrument of combat, unmatched by any other British unit
performance, despite being ominous for the Royal Navy, this kept a watchful
development of the Harrier eye, originally planned as attack aircraft, was that he
had very good performance as an apparatus of hunting, becoming one of the
first and most efficient multi-role aircraft in the world times. The
modificacionesfueron, a higher cabin deck operations, metal parts corrosion

2. resistant, watertight compartments to increase its buoyancy, navalized beacon
of direction, electronica latest navigation and a different radar
The design of the Harrier had arisen as the first VTOL aircraft, this involved a lot
of research and not a few radical ideas, the essence is the engine and nozzles,
a powerful Pegasus engine capable of delivering an output of ----, enough to
support its own push the weight of the fully loaded device, to direct the thrust
vectoring engine, it was necessary to place the vector based on the center of
the apparatus, however, a nozzle capable of lifting and directing forward the
apparatus was not possible place in the center of gravity was replaced by four
rotational on the sides of the fuselage, equidistant from the center of gravity
nozzles, this gave a very graceful appearance on the plane with a huge and
very bulky fuselage, and that was one of his limiting, besides the enormous
aerodynamic drag, as the device reaches a minimum height, its radar signature
is unmistakable, to compensate for this lack, the aerodynamics was very
elaborate, smooth fuselage and wings delta, although very small, if the fuselage
was reduced to a minimum, only the most essential, the cockpit, radar,
undercarriage, engine, and an extraordinary landing gear, two-pronged, to
balance the weight of the fuselage one put forward and one back of the engine,
this forced add guns out of the fuselage, a clear order to place under the
fuselage an auxiliary tank or pump height was left, but rarely use, the place was
best used by placing 30mm cannon Aden. The payload on the wings was very
good, thanks to a very good structure and four hardpoints, which could be fitted

3. with bombs, rocket launchers or fuel tanks, later defensive weapons were
added, the Sidewinder missile with all its wiring and guns 20 mm.
The Sea Harrier was approved in 1979, and development began immediately,
first to correct was the cabin, which for naval operations needed to be higher,
this parrot increasing the fuselage, a new more modern radar and electronics
were added in one reconfigured cone, also watertight compartments, a
reinforced train and the whole structure was added was revisdad to replace
materials readily oxidized by naval materials, a system more advanced
navigation and provision to carry and launch naval weapons and missile Sea
Skua , also from the beginning it was thought at the Sea Harrier as a naval
fighter, equipped with Sidewinder and 30mm cannons, plus an efficient system
of air defense control. After the Falklands campaign, is developing a new
version of the FA.2, with the lessons learned from the conflict, a new radar
pulse, the ability to bring new AMRAAM, a new Pegasus Mk 106 engine, more
fuel a new avionics and sisitema automatic landing, although this has rarely
been used.
Operational History of Sea Harrier began almost immediately on entering the
service, the first squadron to receive the apparatus was the 797 OCU, shortly
after there was sufficient equipment to form a unit, the 800th Squadron,
intended to serve aboard HMS Hermes , and had begun the formation of a
second squadron 801, intended to serve on HMS Illiustrious, when Argentina
occupied the Falkland Islands, when sending set down to the fleet to recover,
the situation was serious, one aircraft carrier well equipped, other without air
group, hastily was reformed 801, with pilots and aircraft 797, leaving behind
only three seater aircraft, the needs of attack would be covered by Harriers
RAF, which would operate from aircraft carriers, even so, it was too ocean for
very few planes, when they reached the combat zone, was established a CAP,
but very thin, without any AWAC, Argentine aircraft found many holes where
slip, causing great damage to British ships, despite this, the Harriers made a
very good job, knocking down a lot of Argentine aircraft, and defending the fleet,
because even with losses, achieving all its objectives, failures must be seen
elsewhere in the decision of the British government to withdraw the carriers and

4. fleet air cover, it is very unlikely that Argentina managed to sink a single aviation
vessel if the Royal Navy had told even with HMS Ark Royal and its endowment
Phantoms.
While the Falklands were their moment of more fame, it was not the only
operation in which appeared the Sea Harrier, subsequently intervened in the air
control over Bosnia in 2000 operated in support of the British forces in Sierra
Leone, Gulf War against Iraq. Although originally thought to replace them with a
version navalized of GR.7 not se hizo anything about it and the few units of the
fleet were withdrawn in 2006, without replacement, 801 NAS was disbanded
and again, was the Aviacion end of the fixed wing of the Royal Navy.
The Sea Harrier was exported to several countries, India uses it in its original
form, while the navies of the United States, Italy and Spain use the American
version, with electronics and weapons from that country.
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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
For Sea Harrier FRS.1
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Type: Hunting Naval
Engine: Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan with 9752 kg (21500 lb)
Performance: Maximum speed: 1186 km / h. Service ceiling 15000 m. 5560 Km
range with an air recharge.
Weight: 5489 kg empty, maximum takeoff 11340 Kg..
Dimensions: Wingspan 7.70 m, length 14.5 m, height 3.71 m, 18.68 m2 Wing
area.
Armament: 2 x 30 mm cannon Aden, 2268 kg of maximum load.

5. MODELING
This model is manufactured by Airfix, today, even I do not get none, those who
are old GR.3 assembly of highly modified RAF, also is manufactured in 1/144
by Academy, just received one as the assembly , I will describe it in detail.