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The Étendard IVP is a follow-on to the Étendard IVM project described here.
Sylvain Parouty has developed it in tandem with the IVM so all enhancements are being added to both.
As with the IVM, flight model testing is enhanced with advice from former Étendard pilot Michel Panattoni.
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Three external configurations will be included: clean, 2 tanks (below), and as shown
to the right, "Nounou" (2 tanks and Douglas refueling pod). When the refueling
pod is installed the flush mounted camera pod is removed. An AI version of the IVM with refueling pod will be included in the final IVM/IVP package. |
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Textures for two aircraft from Flotille 16F will be included. One in the original blue/white scheme (above) from the 1960's and the second in the final two-tone gray camo scheme with subdued markings worn up to 2004 when the Étendard IVP was retired. |
| Virtual cockpit of the IVP showing the camera control panel at top center where the gunsight was on the IVM, the six camera switches at the lower left of the instrument panel, and the camera configuration panel on the center panel. Both the IVM and IVP cockpits have two main variations each: standard and air-to-air refueling (the Douglas pod command panel replaces the gunsight on the IVM or the camera control panel on the IVP). |  |
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Virtual cockpit view showing the lateral camera sight used to take a photo (as it was done in the real aircraft). Four cameras are available: front, left, right nose, and ventral belly. As with the IVM, a lot of work has gone into the VC in the form of improved canopy and windscreen elements, seat, texture reworking, etc. A mist effect has been added on the windscreen glass. |
| The configuration gauge now looks like pages from a flight manual. In this example the fuel management "page" is used to determine the fuel quantity in internal and external tanks. In addition to a "cover page" when the gauge is first displayed there is also a "start" page and a "cold/dark cockpit" management page. A neat idea and it looks cool. |  |
Included in the April 2025 update, the Etendard IVPM.A modernization program was implemented from 1989 into 1994 that fitted the Etendard IVP with an updated inertial navigation system (INS), a cockpit instrumentation update, and a DRAX 16 radar warning receiver (RWR). The RWR featured spikelike antenna fairings on the upper front and lower rear of the tailfin, with a flush antenna on each side of the tailfin (as also seen on the Muirage F1C). The aircraft was also wired for the Matra Magic II AAM (image below). The updated machines were designated "Etendard IVPM", with the "M" standing for "Modernization". Etendard IVPMs often carried pylon-mounted countermeasures gear, such as an LC III or Phimat chaff dispenser, and a Barracuda jammer. All of these configurations and IVPM cockpit changes are included in this new version.
Unlike the Etendard IVM, Etendard IVP/PM had combat experience, flying reconnaissance missions over Middle Eastern combat zones from the 1970s and over the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The Etendard IVP/PM was finally retired from operational service in July 2000 after decades of useful service, to be replaced by reconnaissance-configured Super Etendards.
A wide variety of external store are included such as 600 litre center line tank, 595 litre wing tanks, rocket launchers, Mk-82 bombs, Baracuda jamming pod, LCIII and phimat flare dispensors, Matra R550 Magic, and Douglas refueling pod. These are grouped by the mission (refueling, rocket attack, bomb attack, interception, etc.), with many options.
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