Although in development in the 1950s for the French Armée de l'Air, the program was cancelled in favor of the Sud-Ouest Vautour II.

[1] An Armée de l'Air specification for a ground-attack aircraft drawn up in 1948 was intended to spur the French aviation industry to produce a jet-powered design.

Sud-Est entered the competition with a development of the earlier SE.2400 attack aircraft, after testing a model in the ONERA (Chalais-Meudon) wind tunnel.

[5] The first flight of Sud-Est SE.2410 Grognard I (F-ZWRJ) took place on 30 April 1950, while the second prototype (F-ZWRK) flew on 14 February 1951 but suffered from tailplane flutter.

[7] During the trials, the Armée de l'Air radically altered the specifications for fighter and bomber aircraft, virtually eliminating the attack category.