and a weapons specialist. Armed with air‐to‐rurface missiles carried under the wing and under the fuse‐
lage. The prototype was not intended for the carriage of an internal armament. The aircraft was powered by
an Armstrong‐Siddeley Mamba turboprop and a Rolls & Royce turbojet Nene, both of British origin. The
Br.960 first flew on August 3, 1951.
The mixed propulsion seemed to show some deficiencies, especially when turning it on during flight of the
turbojet. This dual engine configuration also had issues with sea spray that might reach during certain
phases of flight at low altitude over the sea. In 1953, one of the Br.960 was used for a few months for tech‐
nical evaluation by the flight test center under the designation Br.963 however, it was shelved. But the sec‐
ond prototype was used for another program that would give birth to a French aircraft with longevity: the
Breguet Alizé Br.1050.