Air Enthusiast 2002-09
T.Buttler - 'Super Mirages'. France's quest for a future fighter
Dassault Mirage 2000H KF119 of 7 'Battle Axe' Squadron, Bharatiya Vayu Sena (Indian Air Force) Based at Gwalior from 1985.
Большую часть парка французских боевых самолетов в заливе составляли Mirage 2000. Истребители фирмы "Dassault" решали задачи ПВО и базировались в Аль-Акса в Саудовской Аравии.
A Mirage 2000C of Escadron de Chasse 02.005 ‘Ile de France' based at Orange.
The Snecma M53 for the Mirage 2000 is unusual in that it is a single spool engine having a single two-stage turbine driving both fan and HP compressor. It is usually poor practise to make the fan and HP compressor run at the same speed but the M53 offered carefree handling throughout the flight envelope, though it only achieves a pressure ratio of 9.8.
Dassault Mirage 2000EAD 741 (foreground) and Mirage 2000DAD 705 of 2 Shaheen Squadron, Abu Dhabi Air Force, UAE Western Air Command, based at Al Dhafra from 1990.
Dassault Mirage 2000C 15 of Armee de l'Air Escadron de Chasse EC 1/2 'Cigognes' based at Dijon, from the summer of 1984.
Dassault Mirage 2000C
Первый прототип Mirage F1-01
The ‘Super Mirage F1', actually the second F1 prototype showing its leading-edge flaps to good effect while departing for an early test flight.
The sole Mirage 4000 in a desert scheme applied in 1986.
The Mirage G8-01 was a two-seater; the second machine, G8-02, had just the single seat.
Lovely view of G8-01, in high-speed configuration with the wings swept fully back.
The single-engined Mirage G variable-geometry prototype with wings in the forward position.
Model of the Mirage G4 at the 1969 Paris Show with Marcel Dassault behind on the left.
Wooden mock-up of the Super Mirage ACF single-seater.
Model of the fixed-wing single-seat Super Mirage G8A ACF which was also labelled Super G8 in an early photograph.
Artist’s impression of the single-seat air superiority and interceptor version of the Super Mirage with four MATRA Super 530 missiles, fuel beneath the fuselage centreline with their upper fins apparently fitting into recesses in the aircraft's body and two more under the wings.
Dassault Mirage G8A.
The very impressive Mirage F2 prototype, at the time marked as the Mirage IIIF2.
Dassault Mirage 2000DP 193, the first of two two-seaters for the Fuerza Aerea del Peru, handed over on June 7, 1985. Operated by Escuadron de Caza-Bombardeo from La Joya.
Dassault Mirage 2000-5DDA QA86, first two-seater, operational from 1997 with 7 Air Superiority Squadron ofl Fighter Wing, Qatar Emiri Air Force based at Al Udaid.