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Mirage3
An Israeli Mirage

The Mirage III is a fighter aircraft made by French airplane company Dassault Aviation. If first flew in 1956 and was introduced in 1961. It used a triangle wing (called a delta wing). It had 2 cannons and some missiles. Because it was an interceptor, an airplane made to shoot down enemy airplanes at high speed, it could go Mach 2.2. It was used by Israel in the Six-Day War.

Images for kids

  • Dassault Mirage I in flight c1956

    The tailless 1955 Mirage delta-wing prototype with the very large vertical stabilizer and no horizontal stabilizer and no flaps

  • Dassault Mirage Cyrano 11 Radar

    Cutaway view of the Cyrano radar system

  • Mirage III-R MG 1468

    Nose of a Mirage IIIRS: thinner than the fighter version, this nose has several glass apertures for medium-format cameras.

  • Hatzerim Mirage 20100129 1

    Mirage IIICJ at the Israeli Air Force Museum (13 victory markings)

  • Two Mirage III of the Royal Australian Air Force 1

    Australian Mirage IIIO (top) and Mirage IIID (bottom) in 1980. These aircraft are now operated by the Pakistan Air Force

  • RAAF Mirage

    An Australian Mirage IIID in 1988

  • Mirage III-R MG 1444

    Swiss Dassault Mirage IIIRS recon on display

  • Jato3

    Swiss Air Force Mirage IIIS JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off)

  • SEPR Antrieb für Mirage

    SEPR at the Flieger-Flab-Museum

  • Downed Mirage

    Wreckage of downed Israeli Mirage in the Yom Kippur war

  • PAF Mirage III ROSE alert scramble competition Falcon Air Meet 2010 side view 2

    PAF Mirage-IIIEA ROSE-1

  • SAAF Mirage IIIBZ

    A South African Air Force Mirage IIIBZ on display at the South African Air Force Museum on AFB Swartkop

  • Primer Mirage III en Argentina

    The first Argentine Mirage, a IIIDA.

  • Argentina Air Force Dassault Mirage IIIEA Lofting-1

    Mirage IIIEA of the Argentine Air Force

  • Dassault Mirage IIIR

    French Mirage IIIR

  • Pakistan Air Force Mirage-IIIRP

    PAF Dassault Mirage-IIIRP2 from the No. 15 Squadron

  • Mirage III MG 1487

    The belly of a Mirage IIIS

  • Dassault Mirage IIING, France - Air Force AN1242270

    Mirage IIING

  • Dassault Mirage III Operators

    Mirage III operators, current (blue) and former (red)

  • A3-42 in August 2020

    A3-42 on display at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in 2020

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    3-view drawing of Mirage III-5

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