AMD (Aviation Marcel
Dassault) - Mirage IIIC - Serial No. 73
Escadron de Chasse 2/13 "Alpes" (French Air
Force)
Base Aérienne 132 at Colmar/Meyenheim (France)
Mai 1962 to April 1965
Kits,
Pictures & Text by Peter Mojzisek
Dassault
- Mirage IIIC
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The
Mirage IIIC served as an Air Defense Fighter with the
French Air Force, but the South African and Israel Air
Forces used them also very successfully as a
Fighter-Bomber. Although the frontline-service for the C-model was short (1961 to 1964) with the French Air Force, some of their Mirage IIIC served well into the 80's with EC 3/10 "Vexin" in Djibouti (East Africa) with the French forces there. In addition to this, some ex-Israeli IIICJ were also still in use with the Fuerza Aerea Argentina in the late 90's! |
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their Mirage IIIC, the French Air Force was the first
European air arm to have a Mach-2 interceptor
operational, plus all-weather and day/night capability! Equipped with the Cyrano radar, and armed with 2 x 30 mm DEFA-cannons plus two Sidewinder AIM-9B and one Matra R.530 (infra-red or radar-guided) missiles, the Mirage represented a fearsome weapons platform (at least for its time ...). |
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Due to
the metallic finish, I had some problems to make the
pictures with a Digital Camera. On most of them, I got
some irritation or blind sections - and during shrinking
to fit them on these pages, I lost some more quality. Even so, I hope you will get some taste on my Mirage ... |
I have more pictures! Please go to the second Page of the Mirage. |
