BAC Strikemaster
Bomber Plane

The BAC 167 Strikemaster was a successful project to turn the Jet Provost trainer into a light attack aircraft. The Strikemaster airframe was based on a strengthened Jet Provost T.Mk 5 with the addition of a more powerful engine, updated avionics and weapon mounting hard-points, BAC (British Aircraft Corporation) built 146 Strikemasters between 1967 and 1984 and they served with the air-forces of Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Singapore, Sudan, Ecuador, Kenya, Kuwait, Botswana and New Zealand.

The picture above depicts G-UVNR, a privately owned 1971 BAC 167 Strikemaster Mk87 (cn EEP/JP/2876)) which originally served with the Botswana Defence Force as OJ-10 and then the Kenyan Air Force as 605.
 

BAC 167 Strikemaster Mk87 Specifications:

• Crew: Pilot and co-pilot
• Length: 33 ft 8 in (10.27 m)
• Wingspan: 36 ft 11 in (11.25 m)
• Height: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
• Empty weight: 5,995 lb (2,772 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 11,500 lb (5,220 kg)
• Engine: Single 3,410 lbf (15.2 kN) Rolls-Royce Viper Mk.535 turbojet
• Maximum speed: 450 knots (520 mph, 834 km/h)
• Range: 780 nm (900 mi, 1450 km)
• Service ceiling 40,000 ft (12,200 m)

Armament:

• Twin 7.62 mm machine guns

Up to 3,000 lb of munitions on eight under-wing hard-points which may include:

• Bombs
• Machine gun pods
• Air-to-ground rocket pods
• Napalm tanks