The Dassault Super Etendard is a French carrier-borne "strike" fighter in service with the French and Argentine Navies. A small number were also flown by the Iraqi Air Force for a brief period during the Iran-Iraq War. It is a development of the earlier Etendard IVM that was originally to have been replaced by a navalised version of the SEPECAT Jaguar, the Jaguar M, until this plan was stalled by political problems. The prototype first flew on 28 October 1974. The French Navy initially ordered 60 of the new model, which were delivered in June 1978 and the Argentinian Navy ordered 14. The Super Etendard had been developed in parallel with a new air-launched version of Aerospatiale's anti-shipping missile, the AM 39 Exocet, and these were supplied to Argentina as well.