Dassault Mirage III

Video Title :	Dassault Mirage III
Description :	The Dassault Mirage III is a supersonic fighter aircraft designed in France by Dassault Aviation during the 1950s, and manufactured both in France and a number of other countries. It was a successful fighter aircraft, being sold to many air forces around the world and remaining in production for over a decade. Some of the world's smaller air forces still fly Mirage IIIs or variants as front-line equipment today, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Pakistan (largest operator), and Venezuela.The Mirage III family grew out of French government studies begun in 1952 that led in early 1953 to a specification for a lightweight, all-weather interceptor capable of climbing to 18,000 m (59,040 ft) in six minutes and able to reach Mach 1.3 in level flight. Dassault's response to the specification was the Mystère-Delta 550, a sporty-looking little jet that was to be powered by twin Armstrong Siddeley MD30R Viper afterburning turbojets, each with thrust of 9.61 kN (2,160 lbf). A SEPR liquid-fuel rocket motor was to provide additional burst thrust of 14.7 kN (3,300 lbf). The aircraft had a tailless delta configuration, with a 5% chord (ratio of airfoil thickness to length) and 60 degree sweep. The tailless delta configuration has a number of limitations. The lack of a horizontal stabilizer means flaps cannot be used, resulting in a long take-off run and a high landing speed. The delta wing itself limits maneuverability; and suffers from buffeting at low altitude, due to the large wing area and resulting low wing loading. However, the delta is a simple and pleasing design, easily built and robust, capable of high speed in a straight line, and with plenty of space in the wing for fuel storage. The first prototype of the Mystere-Delta, without afterburning engine or rocket motor and an absurdly large vertical tailfin, flew on 25 June 1955. After some redesign, reduction of the tailfin to more rational size, installation of afterburners and rocket motor, and renaming to Mirage I, the prototype attained Mach 1.3 in level flight without the rocket, and Mach 1.6 with the rocket lit in late 1955.The first major production model of the Mirage series, the Mirage IIIC, first flew in October 1960. The IIIC was largely similar to the IIIA, though a little under a half meter longer and brought up to full operational fit. The IIIC was a single-seat interceptor, with an Atar 09B turbojet engine, featuring an "eyelet" style variable exhaust. The Mirage IIIC was armed with twin 30 mm DEFA revolver-type cannon, fitted in the belly with the gun ports under the air intakes. Early Mirage IIIC production had three stores pylons, one under the fuselage and one under each wing, but a second outboard pylon was quickly added to each wing, for a total of five. The outboard pylon was intended to carry a Sidewinder air-to-air missile (AAM), later replaced by Matra Magic.The Mirage IIIC was exported to Israel as the Mirage IIICJ, to South Africa as the Mirage IIICZ, and to Switzerland as the Mirage IIICS, to which one was sold in preparation for license construction. Some export customers obtained the Mirage IIIB, with designations only changed to provide a country code. Such as the Mirage IIIDA for Argentina, Mirage IIIDBR and Mirage IIIDBR-2 for Brazil. Mirage IIIBJ for Israel, Mirage IIIDL for Lebanon, Mirage IIIDP for Pakistan, Mirage IIIBZ and Mirage IIIDZ and Mirage IIID2Z for South Africa, Mirage IIIDE for Spain, Mirage IIIBS and Mirage IIIDS for Switzerland, Mirage IIIDV for Venezuela. * Crew: 1 * Length: 15 m (49 ft 3.5 in) * Wingspan: 8.22 m (26 ft 11 in) * Height: 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) * Wing area: 34.85 m² (375 ft²)3 * Empty weight: 7,050 kg (15,600 lb) * Max takeoff weight: 13,500 kg (29,700 lb) * Powerplant: 1× SNECMA Atar 09C turbojet * Maximum speed: Mach 2.2 (2,350 km/h, 1,460 mph) * Range: 2,400 km (1,300 NM, 1,500 mi) * Service ceiling: 17,000 m (56,000 ft) * Rate of climb: 83.3 m/s (16,400 ft/min) * Wing loading: 387 kg/m² (79 lb/ft²)
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Video Length :	9 : 58

Comments :

Colombia have Dassault Mirage 5. :-).

My most favorite Cold War era fighter of them all the Mirage III and deriatives, the MiGs are good but it in my opinion required too little maintenance, you've got to fix the plane once in a while, otherwise it would be quite boring for the maintenance personnel with only fuel and go, fuel and go.

the mirage was nice but the video was boring

One of the best looking and more effective fighters in Aviation History. Still in use here (soon to be replaced we hope) in the following versions: Mirage-IIIEA single seat and Mirage-IIIDA, two seaters...

where is "here"?

ah, never mind. Argentina, huh?

MirageIII-EA (A stands for Argentina, as M-IIIEE E stands for España and M-IIIEV V stands for Venezuela, and M-IIIEP for Pakistan)...

yes but the mirage flights was suspended after an accident the pilot died in tandil base.

Great vid man! Btw-can you tell me, what's the music? Sounds interesing...

I bet that thing terrified the first test pilot!