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The Orao and IAR-93 are the Yugoslav and Romanian versions
of a ground attack aircraft jointly developed from 1970. The
design has a shoulder mounted swept wing, lateral intakes
and power provided by two licence built Rolls-Royce Viper
turbojets with some variants having afterburner. Yugoslav
variants were the initial Orao 1 with non afterburning engines.
These were considered underpowered and used only for reconnaissance
as IJ-22. The production two-seat reconnaissance version was
the NJ-22. Some of these had afterburners. Most of the definitive
single seat J-22 had afterburners. Romanian versions were
the initial non afterburning IAR-93A and the afterburning
IAR-93B.
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