ARBEITSGRUPPE FÜR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT
GROUPE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DE PROJETS AÉROSPATIAUX
AEROSPACE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Piranha

The PIRANHA project was undertaken by ALR as a private venture with the support of Switzerland’s industry. The reason for initiating the project was that the development and manufacturing cost of advanced tactical fighter aircraft (F-15, F-18) has risen so high that the number of aircraft which an armed service is able to procure has been reduced to unacceptably low levels.

PRIANHA 1 was a subsonic aircraft configuration optimised for the anti-armour and anti-helicopter roles.

PIRANHA 6* was designed to meet the battlefield air superiority and battlefield interdiction roles. These role requirements led to a very small, agile supersonic fighter powered by advanced engines such as the RB.199, EJ-200, or M.88.

The design works undertaken in the early eighties have been applied by ALR in other projects.