The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French fighter and attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was developed as a successor to the Mirage III family. During the 1960s, Dassault commenced development of what would become the Mirage F1 as a private venture, alongside the larger Mirage F2. Work on the F1 eventually took ...

The South African Air Force recognized the advantages of a simplified version of the Mirafe F1CZ for day visual attack missions. The resulting Dassault-Breguet Mirage F1AZ is visually distinguished by having a slender conical nose, resulting from removal of …

The Mirage F1-AZ is probably better known in the UK for the black painted jet in the French car manufacturer commercial which was shown on TV. The Mirage F1-AZ is optimised for ground attack and was designed to meet a South African requirement.

Dec 23, 2022 · Power plant: One SNECCMA-Atar 9K-50 turbo jet with 11 090 lb (5 035 kg) static thrust or 15 000 lb (6 810 kg) with afterburner. The Dassault-Breguet Mirage F-1 is the natural successor to the delta-winged Mirage III fighter aircraft and features an impressive array of improvements on its predecessor.

Equipped with an interim Snecma Atar 9 K 31 jet engine, the Mirage F1 01 made its first flight on December 23, 1966 at Melun-Villaroche piloted by René Bigand. On January 7, 1967, he reached Mach 2 on the 4th flight.

Volume 1 provides a high-level summary of the Mirage F1CZ and F1AZ in SAAF service. The bulk of volume 1 focuses on the details of the AZ and CZ demonstrated with images of several …

3 days ago · "Mirage F1 losses" page 306 at bottom: "F1CZ 205 had tail section of F1CZ 206 fitted and returned to service as F1CZ 205". We thus have two possibilities: Which one is true?

Feb 1, 2017 · Mirage F1AZ. The Dassault-Breguet Mirage F1AZ is a single-seat strike and multi-role fighter. This simplified attack version features extra fuel in place of radar and some other...

'Cats' Balls' RWR sensors fitted later (see Mirage F1AZ. avionics flight demonstrator for positions)

The Dassault Mirage F1 was used operationally by the South African Air Force (SAAF) in the “bush” war in Angola in the 1980’s in both its CZ and AZ versions. Two confirmed air-to-air kills were made by SAAF F1CZs over Angolan Air Force MiG -21’s. Kills were via 30mm cannon fire.