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The Dassault Mirage 5 is a supersonic [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] designed in [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] by [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] during the 1960s, and manufactured in France and a number of other countries. 

It was derived from Dassault's popular [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] fighter, and spawned several variants of its own.

Early development

The Mirage 5 grew out of a request to Dassault from the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. 

Since the weather over the Middle East is clear and sunny most of the time, the Israelis suggested removing avionics, normally located behind the cockpit, from the standard Mirage IIIE to reduce cost and maintenance, and replacing them with more fuel storage for attack missions.

 In September 1966, the Israelis placed an order for 50 units of the new aircraft.

Mirage 5



The first Mirage 5 flew on 19 May 1967.

 It looked much like the Mirage III, except it had a long slender nose that extended the aircraft's length by about half a metre. 

A [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] was distinctively moved from the tip of the nose to below the nose in the majority of Mirage 5 variants.

The Mirage 5 retained the IIIE's twin DEFA guns, but added two additional pylons, for a total of seven. Maximum warload was 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). Provision for the SEPR rocket engine was deleted.

Rising tensions in the Middle East led French President [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] the Israeli Mirage 5s on 3 June 1967. 

The Mirages continued to roll off the production line, even though they were embargoed, and by 1968 the batch was complete and the Israelis had provided final payments.

In late [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], the Israelis, who had pilots in France testing the aircraft, requested that the aircraft be transferred to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], in theory to allow them to continue flight training during the winter. 

The French government became suspicious when the Israelis also tried to obtain long-range fuel tanks and cancelled the move.

The Israelis finally gave up trying to get the aircraft and accepted a refund. Later however, cooperation with France resumed outside the public's eye and Israel received 50 Mirage 5s in crates from [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], while Ada took over the 50 aircraft originally intended for Israel, as Mirage 5Fs.
 The aircraft were delivered between May 1971 and February 1974 and assembled by Israeli technicians.[[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]] Officially, Israel claimed to have built the aircraft after obtaining complete blueprints, naming them [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

Like the Mirage IIIE, the Mirage 5 was popular with export customers, with different export variants fitted with a wide range of different avionics. 

While the Mirage 5 had been originally oriented to the clear-weather attack role, with some avionic fits it was refocused to the air-combat mission. 

As electronic systems became more compact and powerful, it was possible to provide the Mirage 5 with increased capability, even though the rear avionics bay had been deleted, therefore in some sub-versions, Dassault finished up with a "reinvented" Mirage IIIE.
Reconnaissance and two-seat versions of the Mirage 5 were sold, with the designation Mirage 5R, and Mirage 5D respectively. 

However, a little consideration of the differences between a Mirage III and a Mirage 5 quickly shows that these designations were simply for marketing purposes. 

There was no clear dividing line between the configuration of a Mirage III reconnaissance or trainer version and that of a Mirage 5 equivalent, and were one and the same in many cases.

The Mirage 5 was sold to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], and [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], with the usual list of subvariant designations and variations in kit. The Belgian aircraft were fitted with mostly US avionics, and Egyptian aircraft fitted with the MS2 attack avionics system from the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

In 1978 and 1980, Israel sold a total of 35 of their [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] plus 4 Nesher trainer aircraft (Nesher Ts) to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] where they were locally known first as Daggers and after their last upgrade as Fingers. 

The Argentines lost two IIIEA and 11 Daggers during the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] in 1982, and, as a measure of solidarity, the Peruvians transferred 10 their Mirage 5s to Argentina, under the name Mirage Mara to help make good their losses.

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] incorporated some Mirage 5s under name Mirage Elkan.

A total of 582 Mirage 5s were built, including 51 Israeli Neshers.

Mirage 50


The Atar 09K-50 engine, however, was still a good idea, and fit of this engine led to the next Mirage variant, the Mirage 50, during the 1970s. 

The uprated engine gave the Mirage 50 better take-off and climb characteristics than its predecessors. While the Mirage 50 also incorporated new avionics, such as a Cyrano IV radar system, it did not prove popular in export sales, as the first-generation Mirage series was becoming obsolete.

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] ordered a quantity of Mirage 50s, receiving both new production as well as updated Armée de l'Air Mirage 5s. 

The Chilean aircraft were later modernized along the lines of the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] as the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] Pantera. 

The Pantera incorporates fixed [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and other aerodynamic improvements, as well as advanced [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. 

These aircraft have an extended nose to accommodate some of the new systems.

In 1990, Dassault upgraded a batch of Venezuelan Mirage IIIEs and 5s to the Mirage 50 spec, with the upgrades designated Mirage 50M.

Mirage 5 ROSE


The [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] (Retrofit Of Strike Element) was an upgrade programme launched by the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] to upgrade old [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and Mirage 5 aircraft with modern avionics. In the first phases of the project, 33 ex-Australian [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] fighters were upgraded and designated ROSE I. 

The PAF then procured surplus Mirage 5F fighters in the late 1990s from the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] in two batches. 20 fighters from the first batch were upgraded with new cockpits, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], defensive aids systems and a [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]sensor under the aircraft's nose/cockpit, being designated ROSE II. 

The cockpits included new MFDs, HUDs, HOTAS controls, radar altimeters and RWRs.

14 Mirage 5F fighters from the second batch were upgraded similarly but with newer systems and designated ROSE III. 

The [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] sensors allow the Mirage 5 ROSE fighters to specialise in the night-time attack role. As of 1995, the Mirage 5 has been donated to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] by the PAF and has been transformed into combat naval squadron as of 2009.