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France |
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Type: Strike fighter |
| Manufacturer:
Dassault |
| Service:
1973 - 2008 |
| First
Flight: 23 December 1966 |
| Production:
700 |
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The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French single-seat air-superiority fighter and attack aircraft built by Dassault Aviation. More than 700 F1s have been produced.
French Air Force Mirage F1s saw their first operational deployment in 1984 during the French intervention in the Chad. More recently, in October 2007, three Mirage 2000s and three Mirage F1s have been deployed at Kandahar Air Force Base, where they fly close air support and tactical reconnaissance missions in support of international forces in Southern Afghanistan.
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| TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS ( Mirage F1) |
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General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 15.33 m (50 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 8.44 m (27 ft 8 in)
- Height: 4.49 m (14 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 25 m (270 ft)
- Empty weight: 7,400 kg (16,000 lb)
- Loaded weight: 11,130 kg (24,540 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 16,200 kg (35,700 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 x SNECMA Atar 9K-50 afterburning turbojet
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 2.3 (2,573 km/h, 1,600 mph) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft)
- Combat radius: 425 km (229 nm, 265 mi)
- Ferry range: 2,150 km (1,160 nm, 1,335 mi)
- Service ceiling 20,000 m (66,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 215 m/s (42,300 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 450 kg/m (91 lb/ft)
- Thrust/weight: 0.64
Armament
- Guns: 2 x 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA 553 internal fixed forward firing cannons
- Other:
- 6,300 kg (14,000 lb) on 5 external hardpoints
- 4 x R.550 or AIM-9L
- 2 x Super 530F
- 2 x AM.39 Exocet Anti-Ship Missiles
- 2 x AS.30L
- 4 x Mk.82
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