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FS2004 Jaguar Marine. French Navy prototype Jaguar M, intended for its naval aeronautics and modified to operate from an aircraft carrier. It made its first flight on November 14th, 1969 and made several trial campaigns: deck landings feigned on runway in Nimes, tests on a catapult on the ground in the United Kingdom, then offshore tries from the aircraft carrier Clemenceau. This version is however given up at the beginning of 1973. On one hand the Jaguar turned out sub-motorized, on the other hand it would have been necessary to strengthen catapults and deck of the aircraft carrier which generated obviously a high additional cost.