ℹ️ ➖➖➖ The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet is a light attack jet and advanced jet trainer co-manufactured by Dassault Aviation of France and Dornier Flugzeugwerke of Germany. It was developed specifically to perform trainer and light attack missions, as well as to perform these duties more ideally than the first generation of jet trainers that preceded it. Following a competition, a design submitted by a team comprising Breguet Aviation, Dassault Aviation, and Dornier Flugzeugwerke, initially designated as the TA501, was selected and subsequently produced as the Alpha Jet. The Alpha Jet is a light twin-engine aircraft equipped with an intentionally simple airframe despite the performance delivered. Both the leading edges and air intakes are fixed; while the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft, which was developed with the aid of computer-aided design (CAD), conforms with the area rule. Fully powered controls are used, comprising dual-hydraulic systems and load-factor limited dynamic feel system arrangement attached to conventional flight control surfaces. The cockpit is pressurised for greater comfort during training. The Alpha Jet is designed to accommodate ten-minute turn around times with minimal ground equipment, using features such as pressurised single-point refuelling, ladder-less entering/egress of the cockpit, and a ten-hour endurance of the liquid oxygen system.
📑 ➖➖➖ The Cameroon Air Force was established in August 1960, the year of independence from France. The French supplied the first batch of equipment to the Cameroon Air Force. Later, orders from France included the Alouette II, Alouette III and Gazelle helicopters, and Fouga Magister and Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet, jet trainers etc In 1977, two Lockheed C-130 Hercules were installed into service. The air force had 6 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets (2 inoperable) as attack aircraft

▪️👤 Crew: 2
▪️📏 Length: 13.23 m (43 ft 5 in)
▪️↔️ Wingspan: 9.11 m (29 ft 11 in)
▪️↕️ Height: 4.19 m (13 ft 9 in)
▪️↔️ Wing area: 17.5 m2 (188 sq ft)
▪️⬇️ Empty weight: 3,515 kg (7,749 lb)
▪️↗️ Max takeoff weight: 7,500 kg (16,535 lb)
▪️🛢 Fuel capacity: 1,520 kg (3,351 lb)[75]
▪️⚙️ Powerplant: 2 × SNECMA Turbomeca Larzac 04-C5 turbofan engines, 13.24 kN (2,980 lbf) thrust each
▪️⏭ Maximum speed: 1,000 km/h (620 mph, 540 kn) at sea level
▪️⏩ Stall speed: 167 km/h (104 mph, 90 kn) (flaps and undercarriage down)
216 km/h (134 mph; 117 kn) (flaps and undercarriage up)
▪️🛢Combat range: 610 km (380 mi, 330 nmi) lo-lo-lo profile, gun pod, underwing weapons and two drop tanks
1,095 km (680 mi; 591 nmi) hi-lo-hi profile, gun pod, underwing weapons and two drop tanks
▪️⬆️ Service ceiling: 14,630 m (48,000 ft)
g limits: +12 / -6.4 (Ultimate)
▪️⏫ Rate of climb: 57 m/s (11,200 ft/min) max
Time to altitude: 9,145 m (30,003 ft) in less than 7 minutes
▪️⚔️ Guns: One 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon in centreline gun pack with 120 rounds or one 30 mm DEFA cannon in centreline pod with 150 rounds
Hardpoints: 5 with a capacity of 2,500 kg (5,512 lb), with provisions to carry combinations of:
Rockets: Two Matra rocket pods with eighteen SNEB 68 mm rockets each or two CRV7 rocket pods with nineteen 70 mm rockets each
Missiles: Two AIM-9 Sidewinders; two Matra Magic IIs; two AGM-65 Mavericks;
Bombs: a variety of bombs (such as the Hunting BL755 cluster bomb)
Other: 2x 310 l (82 US gal; 68 imp gal) Drop tank.

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