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One of her boilers was out of action, her speed was limited, and her catapult was not yet ready. At that speed, the only aircraft she could hope to operate was a stubby French turboprop with a crew of three, and nobody yet knew whether it could get off the deck without a catapult. It was the Br\u00e9guet Aliz\u00e9.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A few weeks later, those same Aliz\u00e9s were flying night strikes against shipping off East Pakistan. It was the combat high point of an aircraft that rarely makes the history books, yet served two navies from 1959 to 2000 and hunted submarines from three French carriers and one Indian one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Three-seat carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Builder:<\/strong> Br\u00e9guet, France (Br.1050)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> October 1956<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engine:<\/strong> One Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> 89, between 1957 and 1962, including prototypes<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Operators:<\/strong> French A\u00e9ronavale (1959 to 2000); Indian Navy (1961 to 1991)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Carriers:<\/strong> <em>Arromanches<\/em>, <em>Clemenceau<\/em>, <em>Foch<\/em> and INS <em>Vikrant<\/em><\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Wartime service:<\/strong> Goa operation (1961) and the Indo-Pakistani wars of 1965 and 1971<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From a jet-prop hybrid to a submarine hunter<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Aliz\u00e9, French for &ldquo;tradewind&rdquo;, grew out of a failed experiment. The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/breguet-960-vultur-turboprop-turbojet-aeronavale-alize\/\">Br\u00e9guet Br.960 Vultur<\/a> of the early 1950s combined a turboprop in the nose with a jet engine in the tail. Its second prototype was rebuilt as the Br.965 \u00c9paulard anti-submarine aircraft, and that in turn led to the Br.1050 Aliz\u00e9.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The jet engine was gone. The Aliz\u00e9 had a single Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop, a low wing that folded for carrier stowage, and a tricycle undercarriage whose main wheels retracted forwards into wing nacelles. The front of those nacelles held sonobuoys. It carried a pilot, a radar operator and a sensor operator, all crammed into one cockpit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Britain tackled the same carrier anti-submarine problem with the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fairey-gannet\/\">Fairey Gannet<\/a>, a larger aircraft driven by a double turboprop. The French solution was simpler and smaller: one engine, one propeller, and everything else packed around the crew and the radar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/breguet-alize-59-f-azyi-folded-wings-2019.jpg\" alt=\"A grey Breguet Alize in French Navy markings numbered 59 parked with its wings folded upwards\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Aliz\u00e9 59, civil-registered F-AZYI, shows the folding wings and underwing nacelles that let the type operate from crowded carrier decks. Photographed in June 2019. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:French_Navy,_F-AZYI,_Breguet_1050_Aliz%C3%A9_(49580304612).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Zvereva \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Its signature feature was the radar. A retractable radome in the belly could be lowered in flight to search the sea and raised for take-off and landing. An internal bay took a homing torpedo or depth charges, and underwing pylons could carry rockets, bombs or AS.12 wire-guided missiles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Into French service<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The prototype first flew in October 1956 and was shown at the Paris Air Show in May 1957. Development took time, and the first production aircraft did not reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/french-naval-aviation\/\">A\u00e9ronavale<\/a> until March 1959. Final assembly took place at Biarritz, with parts from Toulouse and other factories. In all, 89 were built between 1957 and 1962, including prototypes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>French Aliz\u00e9s flew from the carriers <em>Arromanches<\/em>, <em>Clemenceau<\/em> and <em>Foch<\/em> and from shore bases. Their job was patient, unglamorous work: long patrols over the sea, searching for submarines with radar and sonobuoys while the jets on deck took the headlines. With a range of around 2,500 km, they could stay out for hours.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwprpbwpL0I\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Archive footage of French Navy Aliz\u00e9s aboard the carrier <em>Foch<\/em> in 1968.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">India&rsquo;s night strikers<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>India was the only export customer. Its navy bought around a dozen Aliz\u00e9s and commissioned them into INAS 310, the &ldquo;Cobras&rdquo;, in 1961, the year <em>Vikrant<\/em> joined the fleet. They flew reconnaissance over Goa during its annexation that December, and maritime patrol and electronic intelligence missions in the 1965 war with Pakistan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/ins-vikrant-launches-alize-1971-indo-pakistani-war.jpg\" alt=\"An Indian Navy Breguet Alize lifting off the deck of the carrier INS Vikrant as deck crew watch\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">INS <em>Vikrant<\/em> launches an Aliz\u00e9 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:INS_Vikrant_(R11)_launches_an_Alize_aircraft_during_Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Navy \/ Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The 1971 war was their finest hour. Rear Admiral S. Ramsagar, then the Cobras&rsquo; senior pilot, later described how the squadron proved that the Aliz\u00e9 could take off from the damaged <em>Vikrant<\/em> without the catapult, first in a lightened state and then at full load.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;We proved the versatility of the Alize aircraft and not only completed the free take off trials successfully but also did Free Take Offs at full designed loads of the aircraft.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Rear Admiral S. Ramsagar (retd)<\/strong> &mdash; Senior pilot of INAS 310 in 1971, writing for Livefist<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Vikrant<\/em> sailed for the Bay of Bengal. While her <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sea-hawk\/\">Sea Hawk<\/a> jets struck by day, the Aliz\u00e9s flew anti-submarine and reconnaissance patrols around the clock and, as the only night-capable aircraft aboard, carried out the night strikes with bombs, as well as daytime rocket and depth-charge attacks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ramsagar described a night attack on merchant ships anchored in the river at Khulna, flown with his commanding officer, Commander Ravi Dhir, each Aliz\u00e9 carrying five 500 lb bombs through heavy anti-aircraft fire. Two days later he attacked a naval tug towing troop boats, finishing with a depth-charge run flown practically skimming the water.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;Lucky for us the crew sits with the pilot on the left of centre, the navigator on the right and the rear radar operator also sits on the right of the centerline. So all the direct hits on the aircraft missed us by inches.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Rear Admiral S. Ramsagar (retd)<\/strong> &mdash; On the 20 mm hits his Aliz\u00e9 took in 1971, writing for Livefist<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>His crippled Aliz\u00e9, with no electrical power or hydraulics and a small fire in the radome, made it back to the carrier with its undercarriage and hook lowered by gravity. Not every crew was so lucky: on 10 December 1971, an Indian Navy Aliz\u00e9 was shot down by a Pakistani <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-104-starfighter\/\">F-104 Starfighter<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DVyGTtS0Jl0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Archive footage of Indian Navy Aliz\u00e9 operations aboard INS <em>Vikrant<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Indian Aliz\u00e9s kept working long after. In 1987, flying from shore bases, they supported the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, and during Operation Cactus, after the attempted coup in the Maldives in 1988, they helped force the surrender of rebels escaping in a hijacked ship. The Cobras retired the type in 1991 and moved on to the Dornier 228. One Aliz\u00e9 is preserved at the Naval Aviation Museum in Goa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/indian-navy-alize-naval-aviation-museum-goa.jpg\" alt=\"A white Indian Navy Breguet Alize numbered 02 with folded wings on display at the Naval Aviation Museum in Goa\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An Indian Navy Aliz\u00e9 with folded wings at the Naval Aviation Museum in Goa. India retired the type in 1991. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Indian_Navy_Aliz%C3%A9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinidade \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Forty-one years at sea<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>In France, the Aliz\u00e9 was updated again and again. In the 1980s and 1990s the A\u00e9ronavale gave it new radar, navigation, electronic-surveillance and data-link equipment, and later a forward-looking infrared sensor. Even so, by the 1990s it could no longer realistically hunt modern nuclear submarines, and its work shifted to surface surveillance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/aeronavale-breguet-alize-53-grey-1998.jpg\" alt=\"A dark grey French Navy Breguet Alize numbered 53 parked on an apron at an air show\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A late-service Aliz\u00e9 in overall grey, photographed in 1998, two years before the type left French service. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Breguet_1050_Alize,_France_-_Navy_AN0323262.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan D R Brown \/ Wikimedia Commons, GFDL<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A French Senate report on naval aviation at the turn of the millennium listed the last Aliz\u00e9s for withdrawal in 2000, with the Grumman E-2C Hawkeye arriving as their successor on the carrier deck. The type left A\u00e9ronavale service in September 2000, 41 years after the first delivery.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FJ8mDU7Runc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">A surviving airworthy Aliz\u00e9 displaying at Duxford, its Dart turboprop still turning decades after the type left service.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That is a long career for any carrier aircraft, let alone one designed in the early 1950s. The Aliz\u00e9 was never fast and never famous. But it was the aircraft that kept French carriers watching beneath the waves for four decades, and the one an Indian crew trusted to fly them home through anti-aircraft fire on a single engine and no hydraulics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Ailes Anciennes Toulouse (Br.1050 Aliz\u00e9 history), Livefist (Rear Adm S. Ramsagar, &ldquo;The Alize 1050 in 1971&rdquo;), StratPost (INAS 310 Cobras 50th anniversary), Aviation Safety Network (IN203, 10 December 1971), French Senate report on the future of the carrier group (1999-2000 session)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<p class=\"mf-photo-credits\" data-no-translation style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 18px\">Header photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Breguet_1050_Alize,_France_-_Navy_AN1945053.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation \/ Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the Br\u00e9guet Aliz\u00e9?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Br\u00e9guet Br.1050 Aliz\u00e9 was a French carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft powered by a single Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop. It had a crew of three, folding wings and a retractable belly radome. It first flew in October 1956, and 89 were built between 1957 and 1962 for the French and Indian navies.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which carriers did the Aliz\u00e9 fly from?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">French Aliz\u00e9s flew from the carriers Arromanches, Clemenceau and Foch as well as from shore bases. The Indian Navy operated its Aliz\u00e9s from shore bases and from the light carrier INS Vikrant, including during the 1971 war with Pakistan, when they were the only night-capable aircraft aboard.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What did the Aliz\u00e9 do in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Indian Navy Aliz\u00e9s of INAS 310 flew anti-submarine patrols, reconnaissance and night strikes from INS Vikrant in the Bay of Bengal, attacking shipping with rockets, bombs and depth charges. On 10 December 1971 one Indian Navy Aliz\u00e9 was shot down by a Pakistani F-104 Starfighter.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When was the Br\u00e9guet Aliz\u00e9 retired?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Indian Navy retired its Aliz\u00e9s in 1991, replacing them in INAS 310 with the Dornier 228. France kept the type much longer, upgrading it repeatedly, and withdrew it from A\u00e9ronavale service in September 2000 as the E-2C Hawkeye arrived, 41 years after the first delivery in March 1959.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How was the Aliz\u00e9 related to the Br\u00e9guet Vultur?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Aliz\u00e9 descended from the Br\u00e9guet Br.960 Vultur, a 1951 carrier prototype with a nose turboprop and a tail jet engine. The second Vultur was rebuilt as the Br.965 \u00c9paulard anti-submarine aircraft, which led to the Br.1050 Aliz\u00e9. 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