{"id":21829,"date":"2026-08-22T19:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/?page_id=21829"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:06:16","slug":"sud-aviation-vautour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/ru\/aircraft\/sud-aviation-vautour\/","title":{"rendered":"Sud Aviation Vautour II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mfam\">\n<style> html{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21829{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21829 h1.entry-title.main_title{display:none} body.page-id-21829 #sidebar{display:none} body.page-id-21829 #left-area{width:100%!important;float:none;padding:0} body.page-id-21829 #main-content .container::before{display:none!important;background:none!important} body.page-id-21829 #main-content .container{padding-top:0} #mfam{width:100vw;margin-left:calc(50% - 50vw);overflow:hidden;font-family:'Gilroy 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span.rd{display:block;font-size:14.5px;color:#6a7684} #mfam .sources{columns:2;column-gap:34px;margin-top:6px} #mfam .sources .src{break-inside:avoid;margin:0 0 16px;font-size:14.5px;color:#39424e} #mfam .sources .src b{font-family:'Gilroy semiBold';display:block;color:#0d1117} #mfam .foot{font-size:13px;color:#8794a6;margin-top:26px;border-top:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding-top:18px;max-width:820px} @media(max-width:900px){#mfam .eng,#mfam .rec,#mfam .relgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}#mfam .spectbls{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:22px}#mfam .gallery{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}#mfam .hero h1{font-size:42px}#mfam .sources{columns:1}} @media(max-width:600px){#mfam .eng,#mfam .rec,#mfam .relgrid{grid-template-columns:1fr}#mfam .hero h1{font-size:34px}#mfam .hero{min-height:74vh}#mfam h2{font-size:25px}#mfam .scard{flex:0 0 84vw}} <\/style>\n<section class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"hero-inner\">\n<div class=\"brd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Book of Beasts<\/a> &nbsp;\/&nbsp; Cold War Jets &nbsp;\/&nbsp; Sud Aviation Vautour<\/div>\n<h1>Sud Aviation Vautour II<\/h1>\n<p class=\"claim\">France&rsquo;s versatile 1950s twin-jet &mdash; one swept-wing airframe built as attacker, radar night-fighter and light bomber &mdash; and, in Israeli hands, a hard-worked deep-strike aircraft of the Six-Day War.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1952<\/b><span>First flight<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>3<\/b><span>Variants from one airframe<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~140<\/b><span>Built<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1967<\/b><span>Six-Day War strikes<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Role:<\/b> Twin-jet attack \/ night-fighter \/ light bomber<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Era:<\/b> Cold War (1956&ndash;1979; Israel to the early 1970s)<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Engines:<\/b> 2 &times; SNECMA Atar turbojets<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Origin:<\/b> France<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status:<\/b> Retired &middot; several preserved (France &amp; Israel)<\/span><a class=\"chip-fly\" href=\"#faq\">Can you fly a Sud Aviation Vautour today?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">The Story<\/p>\n<h2>The Sud Aviation Vautour II: one airframe, three jobs, two air forces<\/h2>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>The Sud Aviation Vautour II is a fascinating example of Cold War aircraft design: a single, adaptable twin-jet airframe that France turned into three quite different combat aircraft &mdash; a ground-attacker, a radar-equipped night fighter, and a light bomber &mdash; and that went on to a hard-fought second career in the Israeli Air Force, where it became one of the most important aircraft of the 1960s. Its name, French for &ldquo;vulture,&rdquo; suited a big, purposeful machine built to strike.<\/p>\n<p>The Vautour was designed in the early 1950s by SNCASO, the French state aircraft company that soon merged into Sud Aviation. The prototype, the SO.4050, first flew in October 1952, at a time when France was rebuilding its aviation industry and its air force after the Second World War. The clever idea at the heart of the programme was commonality: rather than design three separate aircraft for three separate missions, France would build one basic swept-wing, twin-jet airframe and produce it in three closely related versions, sharing most of their structure and systems. It was an efficient approach for a nation with limited resources, and it gave the French Air Force a family of capable jets from a single design effort.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the Vautour into service took time. The SO.4050 emerged from a French requirement for a multi-role jet, and after the first prototype flew in 1952 the design was refined through further prototypes and pre-production aircraft before the definitive Vautour II was ready. By the time it reached squadron service in the second half of the 1950s, France finally had a modern, home-built combat jet in useful numbers &mdash; a real milestone for a national aircraft industry that had been rebuilding almost from scratch since 1945.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull\">&ldquo;One airframe, three aircraft: the single-seat IIA attacker, the radar-nosed IIN night fighter, and the glass-nosed IIB bomber.&rdquo;<span>&mdash; the Vautour&rsquo;s one-design, three-role concept<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The three versions each had a clear job. The Vautour IIA was a single-seat ground-attack aircraft, armed with cannon and able to carry bombs and rockets. The Vautour IIN was a two-seat all-weather night fighter and interceptor, with a radar in its nose and a radar operator behind the pilot to work it &mdash; the aircraft that would guard French airspace after dark. And the Vautour IIB was a two-seat light bomber, with a glazed nose for a bombardier to aim through and an internal bomb bay to carry the load. Same wings, same engines, same fuselage in essence &mdash; three different noses and missions.<\/p>\n<p>Power for all three came from a pair of SNECMA Atar turbojets, the French engine family that would go on to power the Mirage fighters. The swept wing gave the Vautour high-subsonic performance, good for its day. But its most distinctive engineering feature was hidden underneath: because the thin swept wing and the podded engines left no good place for conventional wing-mounted landing gear, the Vautour used a bicycle undercarriage &mdash; two main gear units in tandem under the fuselage, one behind the other, with small outrigger wheels near the wingtips to keep the aircraft balanced on the ground. It was the same solution used by aircraft like the B-47 and the U-2, and it gave the Vautour an unusual, slightly ungainly stance on the runway.<\/p>\n<p>In French service the Vautour equipped the Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air from the mid-1950s. The IIN night fighters stood watch over France, the IIA attackers and IIB bombers gave the air force a strike capability, and for a period the bomber version was part of France&rsquo;s early nuclear-strike thinking before dedicated nuclear aircraft took over. The Vautours served steadily, if without great drama, through the 1960s and 1970s, with the last French examples &mdash; used for reconnaissance, electronic warfare and trials &mdash; not retiring until around 1979.<\/p>\n<p>That long tail of specialist service was itself a testament to the design. Even after the front-line fighter and bomber versions were withdrawn, the Vautour&rsquo;s size and load-carrying ability kept it useful: some French aircraft were converted for photographic reconnaissance and for electronic-warfare and radar-calibration work, jobs that suited a roomy, twin-engined airframe. It was in these quiet roles that the type saw out its days &mdash; a fitting end for an aircraft whose whole career had been about adapting one basic design to whatever the air force needed.<\/p>\n<p>But the Vautour&rsquo;s most intensive and famous career was not French at all. In the late 1950s Israel, then closely allied with France, bought a small number of Vautours &mdash; examples of all three versions &mdash; and they immediately became among the most capable aircraft in the Israeli Air Force. Israel was surrounded by potential adversaries and needed to be able to strike hard and, crucially, to strike far; the Vautour, with its good range and useful bomb load, gave the young air force a genuine long-range attack and bombing capability it had never had before. Through the early 1960s the Vautour was Israel&rsquo;s principal strike aircraft and also served as a night fighter.<\/p>\n<p>The French connection was the key. In the late 1950s France was Israel&rsquo;s principal arms supplier, and a close military relationship brought a string of French aircraft &mdash; the Ouragan and Myst\u00e8re fighters, and then the Vautour &mdash; into Israeli service. For Israel the Vautour was a particular prize: unlike the nimble but short-legged day fighters, it could carry bombs a long way, and for a small country facing several neighbours at once, the ability to reach deep into hostile territory was strategically priceless. The Israelis flew their Vautours hard and maintained them meticulously, wringing far more use out of a handful of aircraft than their numbers alone would suggest.<\/p>\n<p>That capability mattered enormously in June 1967. At the opening of the Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched Operation Focus, a surprise attack that struck Arab air forces on their airfields and destroyed much of them on the ground in the first hours of the war. The Vautour&rsquo;s long reach made it especially valuable: it could hit distant airfields that Israel&rsquo;s shorter-ranged fighters could not reach, and Vautours were used in strikes against far-off targets during the campaign. It was the high point of the type&rsquo;s combat career, and it cemented the Vautour&rsquo;s place in Israeli aviation history.<\/p>\n<p>The Vautour&rsquo;s front-line days were numbered even so. The aircraft that replaced it &mdash; the Dassault Mirage and, later, the American F-4 Phantom and A-4 Skyhawk &mdash; were faster, more modern and more capable, and Israel retired its Vautours in the early 1970s as those types took over. France, too, wound down its Vautours through the 1970s. Only around 140 were ever built, and the type was flown operationally by just two nations, France and Israel. But the Vautour is remembered as a genuinely clever piece of design &mdash; one airframe stretched to do three jobs &mdash; and as an aircraft that, in Israeli hands, punched well above its modest numbers. Several survive today, preserved in museums in France and at the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim, where the big vultures still stand as reminders of a resourceful Cold War design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">01<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Vautour&rsquo;s origins: France rebuilds its air power<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour was born from France&rsquo;s post-war effort to rebuild a modern aviation industry and re-equip the Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air with home-grown jets. It was designed by SNCASO (the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale des constructions a\u00e9ronautiques du Sud-Ouest), one of the nationalised French aircraft firms, which merged into Sud Aviation in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype SO.4050 Vautour first flew in October 1952. From the start the programme was conceived around a single, adaptable airframe that could be built in several versions for different missions &mdash; a pragmatic way to get maximum capability from one design effort. After development and testing, the Vautour II entered French service in the second half of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">02<\/span><span class=\"gt\">One airframe, three variants: IIA, IIN and IIB<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The defining feature of the Vautour programme was that three distinct combat aircraft were built from essentially one airframe. The Vautour IIA was a single-seat ground-attack aircraft; the Vautour IIN was a two-seat, radar-equipped all-weather night fighter and interceptor; and the Vautour IIB was a two-seat light bomber with a glazed nose and an internal bomb bay.<\/p>\n<p>All three shared the same swept wing, the same twin-Atar powerplant and essentially the same fuselage, differing mainly in the nose and the crew arrangement. This commonality kept development and production efficient and gave the French Air Force attack, interception and bombing capability from a single design &mdash; an elegant answer to the needs of an air force rebuilding on a budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">03<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Vautour IIA: single-seat ground-attack<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour IIA was the single-seat ground-attack member of the family. With the pilot alone in the cockpit and no need for a radar operator or bombardier, it was the simplest of the three versions, optimised for striking targets on the ground with cannon, bombs and rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Relatively few IIAs were built compared with the night-fighter version, and in French service the type had a limited career. But the single-seat attacker was an important part of the concept &mdash; showing how the basic airframe could be tailored right down to a lean, pilot-only strike aircraft &mdash; and IIAs were among the Vautours that served with distinction in Israeli hands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">04<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Vautour IIN: the radar night fighter<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour IIN was the two-seat all-weather night-fighter and interceptor version, and it was the most numerous of the three. It carried an interception radar in its nose and a second crew member &mdash; a radar operator &mdash; seated behind the pilot to find targets in darkness or cloud and guide the aircraft to them.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with cannon and, in due course, guided missiles, the IIN gave the French Air Force a genuine all-weather air-defence capability for the first time, standing guard over French skies through the late 1950s and 1960s. It was the version that best expressed the Vautour&rsquo;s value as a large, roomy airframe able to carry the bulky radar equipment of the era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">05<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Vautour IIB: the glass-nosed light bomber<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour IIB was the light-bomber version, distinguished by a glazed nose through which a bombardier could aim, and an internal bomb bay to carry the load. With two crew &mdash; a pilot and a bombardier\/navigator &mdash; it gave the French Air Force a jet bomber able to deliver a useful weight of bombs over a good range.<\/p>\n<p>For a period the IIB was bound up with France&rsquo;s early thinking about nuclear strike, before purpose-designed nuclear aircraft such as the Mirage IV took over that role. In Israeli service the bomber Vautours were especially prized for their reach, and the IIB and its variants were central to the type&rsquo;s hard-hitting combat career in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">06<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The SNECMA Atar engines and swept wing<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>All three Vautour versions were powered by a pair of SNECMA Atar turbojets, mounted in nacelles under the swept wing. The Atar was the French jet-engine family of the era, and it would go on to power the whole line of Dassault Mirage fighters &mdash; so the Vautour flew behind the same basic engines that defined French air power for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The moderately swept wing gave the Vautour high-subsonic performance, good enough for its strike, interception and bombing roles, though the aircraft was not a supersonic dogfighter. Two engines gave power and a measure of safety for long-range work over sea or hostile territory &mdash; a quality that made the Vautour particularly attractive for Israel&rsquo;s deep-strike needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">07<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The bicycle undercarriage and wingtip outriggers<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>One of the Vautour&rsquo;s most distinctive features was its landing gear. Because the thin swept wing and the underslung engine nacelles left no convenient place for conventional wing-mounted main gear, the Vautour used a bicycle (or tandem) undercarriage: two main units mounted one behind the other under the fuselage centreline, with small outrigger wheels near the wingtips to steady the aircraft on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>This was the same solution adopted by other aircraft with thin, highly loaded wings, such as the Boeing B-47 and the Lockheed U-2. It gave the Vautour an unusual stance and demanded careful handling on the runway, but it was the logical answer to the problem of where to put the wheels on a swept-wing jet of that layout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">08<\/span><span class=\"gt\">French Air Force service<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour served the French Air Force (Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air) from the mid-1950s. The IIN night fighters equipped all-weather interception squadrons that stood watch over France; the IIA attackers and IIB bombers provided strike and bombing capability; and for a time the bomber version featured in France&rsquo;s early nuclear-strike plans before dedicated aircraft took over that mission.<\/p>\n<p>French Vautours never fought a major war, and their service was steady rather than dramatic. Later in their careers some were adapted for reconnaissance, electronic warfare and test duties, and it was in these specialised roles that the last French Vautours soldiered on, not finally retiring until around 1979 &mdash; a respectable career of more than two decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">09<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Israeli Vautour: a hard-worked strike aircraft<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour&rsquo;s most intensive career was in Israeli service. In the late 1950s Israel, then closely allied with France, acquired a small number of Vautours in all three versions, and they at once became among the most capable aircraft in the Israeli Air Force. What Israel valued above all was reach: the Vautour could carry a worthwhile load over a long distance, giving the young air force a genuine long-range strike and bombing capability for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Through the early 1960s the Vautour was Israel&rsquo;s principal strike aircraft, and it also served as a night fighter and for reconnaissance. Flown hard in a demanding operational environment, the Israeli Vautours earned a reputation as versatile, dependable workhorses &mdash; the aircraft the air force turned to when it needed to hit a target far away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/p>\n<h2>How the Vautour was built: one design, stretched three ways<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Vautour was engineered around commonality &mdash; a single swept-wing, twin-jet airframe adaptable into attacker, night fighter and bomber &mdash; with a bicycle undercarriage as its most distinctive quirk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"eng\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">01<\/div>\n<h3>One airframe, three roles<\/h3>\n<p>A single swept-wing, twin-Atar design built as the single-seat IIA attacker, the radar-nosed two-seat IIN night fighter, and the glass-nosed two-seat IIB bomber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Atar power<\/h3>\n<p>Two SNECMA Atar turbojets under a swept wing gave high-subsonic performance and the twin-engine reach that made the Vautour valuable for long-range strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"en\">03<\/div>\n<h3>Bicycle undercarriage<\/h3>\n<p>Tandem main gear under the fuselage with wingtip outrigger wheels &mdash; the same thin-wing solution used by the B-47 and U-2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Specifications<\/p>\n<h2>Sud Aviation Vautour II specifications: dimensions, performance and cost<\/h2>\n<div class=\"spectbls\">\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Dimensions &amp; powerplant<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Type<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">Twin-jet attack \/ all-weather night fighter \/ light bomber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Crew<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">1 (IIA) or 2 (IIN, IIB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Length<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~15.6 m (51 ft) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Wingspan<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~15.1 m (49 ft 6 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Height<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Empty weight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~10,000 kg (~22,000 lb) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Max takeoff weight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~20,000 kg (~44,000 lb) &mdash; approx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Engines<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">2 &times; SNECMA Atar 101 turbojet (~3,500 kgf each)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Undercarriage<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">Bicycle (tandem) main gear + wingtip outriggers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Armament<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">4 &times; 30 mm DEFA cannon (IIA\/IIN); bombs, rockets, missiles; internal bomb bay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"spec\">\n<caption>Performance &amp; programme<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Max speed<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~1,100 km\/h (~685 mph) &mdash; est.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Range<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">Long-ranged for its class &mdash; valued for deep strike (varies by variant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Service ceiling<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~15,000 m (~49,000 ft) &mdash; est.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">First flight<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">16 October 1952 (SO.4050 prototype)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Introduced<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">mid-1950s (French Air Force)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Retired<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~1979 (France); early 1970s (Israel)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Number built<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">~140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Main variants<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">IIA (attack), IIN (night fighter), IIB (bomber); plus recon\/EW conversions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Operators<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">France (Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air) and Israel (Israeli Air Force)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Unit cost<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded (Cold War procurement)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"k\">Cost per flight hour<\/td>\n<td class=\"v\">not reliably recorded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gd\">\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">10<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Vautour in the Six-Day War, 1967<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>The Vautour&rsquo;s combat high point came at the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967. The Israeli Air Force opened the war with Operation Focus, a carefully planned surprise attack on Arab air forces that struck their airfields and destroyed a large part of them on the ground in the opening hours &mdash; a decisive blow that gave Israel air superiority for the rest of the war.<\/p>\n<p>The Vautour&rsquo;s particular contribution was its range. Israel&rsquo;s more numerous fighters were relatively short-legged, but the Vautour could reach distant airfields that they could not, and the type was used against far-off targets during the campaign. It was demanding, high-stakes work, and it represented the culmination of the Vautour&rsquo;s value to Israel as the air force&rsquo;s long-reach striking arm before more modern aircraft arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">11<\/span><span class=\"gt\">The Sud Aviation Vautour&rsquo;s operating costs: what the records show<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>As with most Cold War military aircraft, there is no single reliable, transparent public figure for the Vautour&rsquo;s unit cost, cost per flight hour or total programme cost. It was procured in modest numbers in the 1950s, in three variants, through government channels rather than at a published list price, and consistent lifetime cost data is not available. Any single figure quoted for it should be treated with caution.<\/p>\n<p>The whole logic of the Vautour, however, was economy of effort: by building three combat types from one basic airframe, France spread its development and production costs across attack, interception and bombing roles rather than funding three separate aircraft. Rather than invent numbers, we list the cost fields here as &ldquo;not reliably recorded.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">12<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Replacement by the Mirage and Phantom generation<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Capable as it was, the Vautour belonged to the first post-war generation of jets, and it was overtaken by the rapid advance of aviation. In both French and Israeli service it was superseded by newer, faster and more capable aircraft: the delta-winged Dassault Mirage III, and, for Israel, the American McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom and A-4 Skyhawk that arrived at the end of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Israel retired its Vautours in the early 1970s as these modern types took over the strike and interception roles, and France wound its own fleet down through the 1970s, keeping a handful in specialised reconnaissance and electronic-warfare use until around 1979. The Vautour had bridged the gap between the early jet age and the modern combat aircraft that followed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><span class=\"gnum\">13<\/span><span class=\"gt\">Surviving Vautours in France and Israel<\/span><span class=\"gsign\">+<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"gbody\">\n<p>Because only around 140 Vautours were built and the type served just two air forces, survivors are not numerous &mdash; but a good number are preserved, fittingly in the two countries that flew it. In France, examples are held at the Mus\u00e9e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace at Le Bourget and other collections, representing the different variants.<\/p>\n<p>In Israel, Vautours are preserved at the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim, where they stand as monuments to the aircraft&rsquo;s intensive combat career and its part in the Six-Day War. Between them, the French and Israeli survivors keep alive the memory of a resourceful design that did three jobs from one airframe and served two nations well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Timeline<\/p>\n<h2>The Sud Aviation Vautour II through the years<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1952<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>First flight<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The SNCASO SO.4050 Vautour prototype flies on 16 October 1952, a swept-wing twin-jet designed to be built in several versions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">mid-1950s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Enters French service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Vautour II enters Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air service in its three variants &mdash; the IIA attacker, the IIN night fighter and the IIB bomber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1957<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Sud Aviation formed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SNCASO merges into Sud Aviation, the company name most associated with the Vautour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">late 1950s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Israel acquires the Vautour<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Israel, allied with France, buys Vautours in all three versions, gaining a long-range strike and bombing capability for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">early 1960s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Israel&rsquo;s principal strike aircraft<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Vautour becomes the Israeli Air Force&rsquo;s main strike and bomber aircraft, and also serves as a night fighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1967<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The Six-Day War<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Vautours take part in Operation Focus, using their long range to strike distant Arab airfields in the opening blows of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">late 1960s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>The Mirage and Phantom arrive<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Newer aircraft &mdash; the Mirage III, and for Israel the F-4 Phantom and A-4 Skyhawk &mdash; begin to supersede the Vautour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">early 1970s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Israel retires the Vautour<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Air Force withdraws its Vautours as modern American and French jets take over its strike and interception roles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">1970s<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>French recon and EW service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>France keeps a few Vautours in reconnaissance, electronic-warfare and trials roles as the main fleet winds down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlrow\">\n<div class=\"tlyr\">~1979<\/div>\n<div class=\"tlc\"><b>Final French retirement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The last French Vautours are retired, ending a service career of more than two decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/p>\n<h2>The Sud Aviation Vautour II in stories: the moments that defined it<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">One airframe turned into three aircraft, a bicycle undercarriage, French night-defence duty, and a hard-worked Israeli combat career culminating in the Six-Day War &mdash; the Vautour&rsquo;s history told through the moments that stuck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"carwrap\">\n<div><button class=\"carbtn\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('.track').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\">&lsaquo;<\/button><button class=\"carbtn\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.parentElement.querySelector('.track').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\">&rsaquo;<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"track\">\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">One Design, Three Aircraft<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The commonality idea<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">France built three combat types from one airframe.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Rather than design three separate aircraft, France built one basic swept-wing, twin-jet airframe and produced it as an attacker, a night fighter and a bomber &mdash; sharing most structure and systems.<\/p>\n<p>It was an efficient way to give the air force three capabilities from a single design effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Name<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>&ldquo;Vulture&rdquo;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Vautour is French for vulture.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The aircraft&rsquo;s name, Vautour, is simply the French word for &ldquo;vulture&rdquo; &mdash; a fitting name for a big, purposeful machine built to circle and strike.<\/p>\n<p>It sat in a French tradition of naming combat aircraft after birds and forces of the air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The IIA<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Single-seat attacker<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The leanest version carried one pilot.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Vautour IIA was the single-seat ground-attack version &mdash; no radar operator, no bombardier, just a pilot and a load of cannon, bombs and rockets for striking targets on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>It showed how far the basic airframe could be pared down for a pure attack role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The IIN<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Radar in the nose<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The night-fighter version was the most numerous.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Vautour IIN was a two-seat all-weather night fighter, carrying an interception radar in its nose and a radar operator behind the pilot to hunt targets in darkness or cloud.<\/p>\n<p>It gave the French Air Force a real all-weather air-defence capability, standing guard over France after dark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The IIB<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The glass-nosed bomber<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The bomber had a glazed nose and a bomb bay.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>The Vautour IIB was the light-bomber version, with a glazed nose for a bombardier to aim through and an internal bomb bay to carry the load over a good range.<\/p>\n<p>Its reach made it especially valuable to Israel, and the bomber Vautours were central to the type&rsquo;s combat career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Bicycle Gear<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Wheels in tandem<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">The Vautour&rsquo;s landing gear was unusual.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>With no room in the thin swept wing for conventional gear, the Vautour used a bicycle undercarriage &mdash; two main units in tandem under the fuselage, with small outrigger wheels near the wingtips.<\/p>\n<p>It was the same solution used by the B-47 and U-2, and it gave the Vautour its distinctive stance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Atar Power<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The engines of the Mirage<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Two Atar turbojets powered every Vautour.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>All three Vautour versions flew behind a pair of SNECMA Atar turbojets &mdash; the same engine family that would go on to power the Dassault Mirage fighters for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The swept wing and twin engines gave high-subsonic performance and the reach that made the type valuable for long-range strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Guarding France<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The night-defence years<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">French IIN Vautours stood watch after dark.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>In French service the radar-equipped IIN night fighters equipped all-weather interception squadrons that guarded French airspace through the late 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Their service was steady rather than dramatic &mdash; the quiet, essential work of air defence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Israel&rsquo;s Long Arm<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Reach above all<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Israel valued the Vautour for its range.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>When Israel acquired the Vautour in the late 1950s, it gained a genuine long-range strike and bombing capability for the first time &mdash; the ability to carry a worthwhile load to a distant target.<\/p>\n<p>Through the early 1960s the Vautour was the Israeli Air Force&rsquo;s principal strike aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Operation Focus<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Six-Day War, 1967<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Vautours struck distant airfields in 1967.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>At the opening of the Six-Day War, Israeli Vautours took part in Operation Focus, the surprise strikes that destroyed much of the Arab air forces on the ground on the first morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Vautour&rsquo;s long reach let it hit far-off airfields that shorter-ranged fighters could not &mdash; its combat high point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Night Fighter Too<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Israel&rsquo;s all-weather Vautour<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Israel used Vautours as night fighters as well.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Besides its strike role, the Israeli Air Force flew radar-equipped Vautours as night fighters and interceptors, and used the type for reconnaissance &mdash; getting the most from its small, hard-worked fleet.<\/p>\n<p>It was a versatile aircraft that Israel turned to for many demanding jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">Overtaken<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Mirage and Phantom era<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Modern jets superseded the Vautour.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>By the end of the 1960s the Vautour was being overtaken by faster, more modern aircraft &mdash; the Mirage III, and for Israel the F-4 Phantom and A-4 Skyhawk.<\/p>\n<p>Israel retired its Vautours in the early 1970s, and France wound its own fleet down through the decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"scard\">\n<summary><span class=\"stag\">The Survivors<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Preserved in two nations<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sprev\">Vautours survive in France and Israel.<\/p>\n<\/summary>\n<div class=\"sbody\">\n<p>Fittingly, the surviving Vautours are preserved in the two countries that flew them &mdash; in French museums such as Le Bourget, and at the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim.<\/p>\n<p>They keep alive the memory of a clever design that did three jobs from one airframe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Photo Gallery<\/p>\n<h2>The Sud Aviation Vautour II in photographs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">French Air Force, Israeli and museum photographs of the Vautour and its three variants, each credited to its source and licence. Click any photo to enlarge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\" id=\"vautour-gallery\">\n<figure class=\"gfig tall\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iin-night-fighter.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Sud Aviation SO.4050 Vautour IIN night fighter. Photo: Steve Knight \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).\"><img data-opt-id=1273470934  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:580\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iin-night-fighter.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20580%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22580%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22580%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sud Aviation SO.4050 Vautour IIN night fighter. Photo: Steve Knight \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).\"><figcaption>A Sud Aviation SO.4050 Vautour IIN &mdash; the two-seat all-weather night-fighter and interceptor version, with nose radar. Photo: Steve Knight \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iib-light-bomber.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Sud Aviation Vautour IIB light bomber with glazed nose. Photo: Duch.seb \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).\"><img data-opt-id=701935155  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1028\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iib-light-bomber.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201028%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221028%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221028%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sud Aviation Vautour IIB light bomber with glazed nose. Photo: Duch.seb \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).\"><figcaption>A Sud Aviation Vautour IIB &mdash; the two-seat light-bomber version, with a glazed nose for the bombardier and an internal bomb bay. Photo: Duch.seb \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iia-ground-attack.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Sud Aviation Vautour IIA single-seat ground-attack aircraft. Photo: Groumfy69 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain.\"><img data-opt-id=1193165621  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:685\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iia-ground-attack.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20685%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22685%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22685%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sud Aviation Vautour IIA single-seat ground-attack aircraft. Photo: Groumfy69 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Sud Aviation Vautour IIA &mdash; the single-seat ground-attack version, one of the three variants built from the same basic airframe. Photo: Groumfy69 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig wide\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vautour-israeli-air-force-museum-hatzerim.jpg\" data-cap=\"Preserved Vautours at the Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim. Photo: Oren Rozen \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).\"><img data-opt-id=1975001121  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vautour-israeli-air-force-museum-hatzerim.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Preserved Vautours at the Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim. Photo: Oren Rozen \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).\"><figcaption>Preserved Vautours at the Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim &mdash; Israel was the Vautour&rsquo;s most intensive combat operator. Photo: Oren Rozen \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-so4050-vautour.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Sud Aviation SO.4050 Vautour, French twin-jet of the 1950s. Photo: San Diego Air and Space Museum, public domain.\"><img data-opt-id=880829724  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:865\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-so4050-vautour.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20865%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22865%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22865%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sud Aviation SO.4050 Vautour, French twin-jet of the 1950s. Photo: San Diego Air and Space Museum, public domain.\"><figcaption>A Sud Aviation SO.4050 Vautour &mdash; the French twin-jet of the 1950s, showing its swept wing and twin Atar turbojets. Photo: San Diego Air and Space Museum archive, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iin-french-air-force.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Sud Aviation Vautour IIN in French Air Force markings. Photo: Joost J. Bakker \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).\"><img data-opt-id=1810363220  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:998\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iin-french-air-force.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%20998%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22998%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%22998%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sud Aviation Vautour IIN in French Air Force markings. Photo: Joost J. Bakker \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).\"><figcaption>A Sud Aviation Vautour IIN night fighter in French Air Force markings. Photo: Joost J. Bakker \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iib-french-air-force.jpg\" data-cap=\"A Sud Aviation Vautour IIB light bomber of the French Air Force. Photo: Jerry Gunner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).\"><img data-opt-id=193281588  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1536\/h:1024\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sud-aviation-vautour-iib-french-air-force.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201024%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221024%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sud Aviation Vautour IIB light bomber of the French Air Force. Photo: Jerry Gunner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).\"><figcaption>A Sud Aviation Vautour IIB light bomber of the French Air Force. Photo: Jerry Gunner \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gfig\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vautour-hatzerim-bicycle-undercarriage.jpg\" data-cap=\"A preserved Israeli Vautour at Hatzerim, showing the bicycle undercarriage. Photo: Oren Rozen \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).\"><img data-opt-id=83903990  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:1440\/h:1080\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vautour-hatzerim-bicycle-undercarriage.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201536%201152%22%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221152%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%221536%22%20height%3D%221152%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Preserved Israeli Vautour at Hatzerim, showing the bicycle undercarriage. Photo: Oren Rozen \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).\"><figcaption>A preserved Israeli Air Force Vautour at Hatzerim, showing the distinctive bicycle (tandem) main undercarriage with wingtip outrigger wheels. Photo: Oren Rozen \/ Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"vautour-lb\" id=\"vautour-lightbox\"><button class=\"vautour-lb-close\">&times;<\/button><button class=\"vautour-lb-prev\">&lsaquo;<\/button><button class=\"vautour-lb-next\">&rsaquo;<\/button><img alt=\"Sud Aviation Vautour enlarged photo\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vautour-lb-cap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">On Film<\/p>\n<h2>The Sud Aviation Vautour II on video: a documentary history<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">A documentary on the Vautour &mdash; its one-airframe-three-variants design, its French service and its intensive combat career with the Israeli Air Force.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vid\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qt1WCWBpKPQ\" title=\"The Sud Aviation Vautour (Dark Skies documentary)\" loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\">&ldquo;The Plane that No One Dared to Face&rdquo; by Dark Skies (approx. 400,000 views at time of writing; running time ~12 minutes) &mdash; a documentary on the Sud Aviation Vautour, its design and its service with France and Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/d3\/7.8.5\/d3.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/topojson\/3.0.2\/topojson.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jsdelivr.net\/npm\/d3-geo-projection@4\/dist\/d3-geo-projection.min.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Operations Overview<\/p>\n<h2>Where the Sud Aviation Vautour flew: an operator map<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">Designed and built in France for the Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air, and flown intensively in combat by the Israeli Air Force &mdash; the Vautour served just these two nations, so this is deliberately a small, two-country map. Hover or tap a country for detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"maphold\">\n<div id=\"vautour-map-widget\">\n<div id=\"vautour-map-container\" style=\"width:100%;position:relative\"><svg id=\"vautour-map-svg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\"><\/svg><\/p>\n<div id=\"vautour-tooltip\" style=\"position:fixed;background:#1a1a2e;color:#fff;padding:10px 16px;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.3px;pointer-events:auto;opacity:0;transition:opacity .15s;z-index:100000;max-width:360px;line-height:1.5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"vautour-controls\" style=\"display:flex;gap:8px;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:flex-start;margin-top:12px\"><button class=\"vautour-toggle active\" data-cat=\"origin\" data-full=\"Design, Manufacture &amp; French Air Force\" data-short=\"France\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #5C91FF;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"vautour-label\">Design, Manufacture &amp; French Air Force<\/span><span class=\"vautour-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"vautour-toggle active\" data-cat=\"raf\" data-full=\"Combat Operator (Israel)\" data-short=\"Israel\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #6B8E23;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:linear-gradient(135deg,#4A6741 25%,#6B8E23 25%,#6B8E23 50%,#556B2F 50%,#556B2F 75%,#8B9D77 75%);background-size:8px 8px\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"vautour-label\">Combat Operator<\/span><span class=\"vautour-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><button class=\"vautour-toggle active\" data-cat=\"surv\" data-full=\"Surviving Airframes (France &amp; Israel)\" data-short=\"Survivors\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;gap:6px;padding:8px 12px;border:2px solid #C0C0C0;border-radius:0;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a2e;white-space:nowrap\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:14px;height:14px;flex-shrink:0;background:#C0C0C0\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"vautour-label\">Surviving Airframes<\/span><span class=\"vautour-check\" style=\"font-size:10px;opacity:1\">&#10003;<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<div id=\"vautour-count\" style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;color:#666;margin-top:12px;line-height:1.7;width:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"vcap\" style=\"margin-top:14px\">Categories: <b style=\"color:#5C91FF\">Design, Manufacture &amp; French Air Force<\/b> (France) &middot; <b>Combat Operator<\/b> (Israel) &middot; <b>Surviving Airframes<\/b> (France and Israel). The Vautour was flown operationally by only these two nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Service Record<\/p>\n<h2>The Vautour&rsquo;s record: a resourceful design, hard-worked in combat<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">The Vautour&rsquo;s significance lies in its clever one-airframe-three-roles concept and in its intensive Israeli combat career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rec\">\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>3<\/b><span>Combat types from one airframe<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>2<\/b><span>Operators &mdash; France and Israel<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>1967<\/b><span>Deep-strike role in the Six-Day War<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"rcard\"><b>~140<\/b><span>Built<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\" id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/p>\n<h2>Sud Aviation Vautour II: your questions answered<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>Can I fly in a Sud Aviation Vautour?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>No &mdash; there is no bookable Vautour flight experience, and MiGFlug does not offer one. Only around 140 were built, all retired decades ago, and the survivors are static museum exhibits in France and Israel rather than flying aircraft. If what you actually want is the real thing &mdash; strapping into a genuine military jet and flying it &mdash; you very much <strong>can<\/strong> do that today in other types. MiGFlug arranges flights in real fighter jets and warbirds around the world. Start here: <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What were the three Vautour variants?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Vautour II was built in three closely related versions from essentially one airframe: the Vautour IIA, a single-seat ground-attack aircraft; the Vautour IIN, a two-seat all-weather night fighter and interceptor with a radar in its nose; and the Vautour IIB, a two-seat light bomber with a glazed nose for a bombardier and an internal bomb bay. All three shared the same swept wing, twin Atar engines and basic fuselage, differing mainly in the nose and crew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why did the Vautour have a bicycle undercarriage?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Vautour&rsquo;s thin swept wing and its underslung engine nacelles left no convenient place for conventional wing-mounted main landing gear. The solution was a bicycle (tandem) undercarriage: two main gear units mounted one behind the other under the fuselage centreline, with small outrigger wheels near the wingtips to steady the aircraft on the ground. It was the same approach used by aircraft such as the Boeing B-47 and the Lockheed U-2, which had similarly thin, highly loaded wings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was the Vautour&rsquo;s role in the Six-Day War?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>At the start of the Six-Day War in June 1967, the Israeli Air Force launched Operation Focus, a surprise attack that struck Arab air forces on their airfields and destroyed much of them on the ground in the opening hours. The Vautour&rsquo;s special value was its range: it could reach distant airfields that Israel&rsquo;s shorter-ranged fighters could not, and Vautours were used against far-off targets during the campaign. It was the high point of the type&rsquo;s combat career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who operated the Sud Aviation Vautour?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Vautour was flown operationally by just two nations: France and Israel. France&rsquo;s Arm\u00e9e de l&rsquo;air used all three variants from the mid-1950s, with the last examples retiring around 1979. Israel acquired Vautours in the late 1950s and made the most intensive combat use of the type, flying it as its principal strike aircraft and as a night fighter through the 1960s before retiring it in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why was the Vautour so important to Israel?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>When Israel acquired the Vautour in the late 1950s, it gave the young air force something it had never had: a genuine long-range strike and bombing capability, able to carry a worthwhile load to a distant target. In a region where Israel needed to be able to strike far as well as hard, the Vautour became the air force&rsquo;s long-reach striking arm, and it played an important part in the deep strikes of the Six-Day War before more modern aircraft took over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What replaced the Vautour?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>The Vautour belonged to the first post-war jet generation and was overtaken by faster, more modern aircraft. In both French and Israeli service it was superseded by the delta-winged Dassault Mirage III, and for Israel by the American McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom and A-4 Skyhawk that arrived at the end of the 1960s. Israel retired its Vautours in the early 1970s, and France wound its fleet down through the decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Was the Sud Aviation Vautour a good aircraft?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"qabody\">\n<p>Yes &mdash; it was a genuinely clever and useful design, even if it was never a world-beater. Its great strength was the efficient one-airframe-three-roles concept, which gave France attack, interception and bombing capability from a single design, and its good range made it a valuable long-range striker &mdash; a quality Israel exploited to great effect. It was overtaken by the rapid advance of jet technology, but in its day, and especially in Israeli hands, the Vautour did important work well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Can I fly in a Sud Aviation Vautour?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No - there is no bookable Vautour flight experience, and MiGFlug does not offer one. Only around 140 were built, all retired decades ago, and the survivors are static museum exhibits in France and Israel rather than flying aircraft. If what you want is the real thing - strapping into a genuine military jet and flying it - you very much can do that today in other types. MiGFlug arranges flights in real fighter jets and warbirds around the world. 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MiGFlug puts you in genuine fighters and warbirds around the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ctacar\">\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>Fighter Jet Flights<\/h3>\n<p>Take the controls of a real ex-military jet with an experienced pilot.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>L-39 Albatros<\/h3>\n<p>The classic jet trainer &mdash; aerobatics and high-speed passes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>MiG-29 Fulcrum<\/h3>\n<p>Ride a genuine air-superiority fighter to the edge of space.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctacard\">\n<div style=\"height:6px;background:#5C91FF\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cc\">\n<h3>Warbird experiences<\/h3>\n<p>Fly in a genuine ex-military warbird from the jet age.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ctabtn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See flights &amp; prices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ctanote\">All flights are operated by MiGFlug&rsquo;s vetted partners with professional pilots. Browse every option and current pricing at <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\" style=\"color:#5C91FF\">migflug.com\/flights-prices<\/a>. MiGFlug does not operate Sud Aviation Vautour flights &mdash; no bookable example exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Related Aircraft<\/p>\n<h2>If the Sud Aviation Vautour interests you, explore these<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-ouragan\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Early Jet &middot; France &amp; Israel<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Dassault Ouragan<\/span><span class=\"rd\">France&rsquo;s first operational jet fighter &mdash; and, like the Vautour, an early jet that Israel bought and flew in combat.<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Cold War &middot; Jet Bomber<\/span><span class=\"rt\">English Electric Canberra<\/span><span class=\"rd\">The classic British twin-jet light bomber of the same era &mdash; a Western contemporary of the Vautour IIB.<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gloster-meteor\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Early Jet &middot; Multi-National<\/span><span class=\"rt\">Gloster Meteor<\/span><span class=\"rd\">Britain&rsquo;s first jet fighter, flown by many air forces &mdash; including France and Israel &mdash; in the early jet age.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"sec alt\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<p class=\"kick\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/p>\n<h2>Where this Sud Aviation Vautour history comes from<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sources\">\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Mus\u00e9e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace (Le Bourget)<\/b>France&rsquo;s national air museum, holding preserved Vautours and reference material on the type.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Israeli Air Force Museum (Hatzerim)<\/b>Home of preserved Israeli Vautours and records of their combat service.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>French Air Force (Arm&eacute;e de l&rsquo;air) histories<\/b>Accounts of Vautour service in the attack, night-fighter and bomber roles.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Sud Aviation \/ SNCASO company histories<\/b>References on the Vautour&rsquo;s design, its three variants and the SO.4050 programme.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>SNECMA \/ Atar engine histories<\/b>Material on the Atar turbojet family that powered the Vautour and the Mirage.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Six-Day War and Israeli air-power studies<\/b>Published accounts of Operation Focus and the Vautour&rsquo;s deep-strike role in 1967.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Israeli Air Force histories<\/b>Records of the Vautour&rsquo;s acquisition and its career as Israel&rsquo;s principal 1960s strike aircraft.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Cold War jet-development studies<\/b>Analyses of first-generation French jets and their place in NATO-era air power.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Aviation-history reference works<\/b>Standard published references on the Vautour&rsquo;s variants, specifications and operators.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Wikimedia Commons<\/b>Source of the public-domain and Creative Commons Vautour photographs used in the gallery, each credited to its author and licence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>MiGFlug Afterburner magazine<\/b>MiGFlug&rsquo;s own aviation-history features on Cold War jets and Middle East air power.<\/div>\n<div class=\"src\"><b>Museum and squadron records<\/b>French and Israeli museum and unit records covering Vautour operations and survivors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"foot\">Note on figures: dimensions, performance and production numbers for the Vautour vary between sources and by variant, and are hedged here as approximate. Cost fields are listed as not reliably recorded because trustworthy Cold War procurement cost data is not consistently available. The Vautour&rsquo;s Israeli combat history, including the Six-Day War, is presented here in summary and with due care; detailed operational accounts should be sought in specialist histories. Several Vautours survive in museums in France and Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"vautour-map-data\" data-js=\"(function boot(){
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