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Avioane IAR 93 Vultur (''Orao'') is a light ground-attack aircraft developed as a joint Yugoslav-Romanian project in the 1970s for the air forces of both nations. The Romanian aircraft was built by IRAv Craiova (today Aerostar SA ), and its Yugoslav counterpart by Soko as the Soko J-22 Orao . For Romania , the IAR 93 was intended to replace MiG-15 s and MiG-17 s in the fighter-bomber role. The last IAR-93s were withdrawn and mothballed from the Romanian Air Force in 1998 . DEVELOPMENT On May 20 1971 , Romania and Yugoslavia signed the governmental agreements for the YuRom programme. The program managers were Dipl. Dr. Engineer Teodor Zanfirescu for the Romanian party and Colonel Vidoje Knezevic for the Yugoslav party. The aircraft was of conventional high-wing monoplane configuration with all flying surfaces swept. The Rolls-Royce Viper was chosen as the powerplant, as Soko had experience with licence-building this engine. The Romanian prototype White 001 made its first flight whitch lasted 21 minutes on October 31 1974 . The aircraft was flown by Colonel Gheorge Stanica. On July 18 1975 the aicraft was demonstrated to Nicolae Ceauşescu on the Bacău airfield. The first batches of pre-production machines were delivered in 1978 . It was originally intended that an Afterburner would be developed for the Viper engines, but there were prolonged difficulties with this project, meaning that none of the pre-production aircraft featured it, and neither did early production examples. During the 1980s, both countries developed slightly different versions to take advantage of the afterburning engines that had since become available. Some IAR-93s are configured for the low level air defense role with a twinrail on each underwing hardpoint making possible the loading of up to eight AA-8 Aphid / R60 AAM. VARIANTS
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RELATED CONTENT Related development: Soko J-22 Orao SEE ALSO National Institute for Aerospace Research "Elie Carafoli" Comparable aircraft: Designation sequence: IAR 79 - IAR-80 - IAR 81 - IAR-93 - IAR 95 - IAR 99 |
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