Mirage III Foreign Variants.

A few more Mirage variants based on the Mirage III by Captain_Ahab_62. Might update later with more Mirage variants (namely Mirage IIIS and Atlas Cheetah)

Mirage V

• Simply a Mirage III with various electronics removed (namely the radar, resulting in the new "slim" nose) designed for Israeli desert operation. However, France's 1969 Arms Embargo to Israel prevented any Mirage Vs from being sold to them. Israeli intelligence stole plans for the Mirage V and built their own unlicensed copy, called the "Nesher".

Kfir Gderot

• The SNECMA Atar 9 engine in the Mirage V was found unsatisfactory and very weak by Israel. As a result, a complete redesign of the Mirage V ("Nesher") was undertaken, adding a new aux. intake in the vertical stabilizer strake, the J-79 engine from an F-4 Phantom, and reworking the bottom "lump" under the fuselage to be further back and more angular for including flare/chaff dispensers. The early Gderot did not have the large canards of the usual Kfir family.

Kfir C.2

• The first "real" Kfir, the C.2 has the large canards remniscient of the Kfir family, added to increase stability and manouverbility.

Milan

• The Milan is a mix of the Mirage III and V, designed to fulfill the Swiss air force's requirement of a new strike aircraft that manouvered better than the Mirage III. The Milan is essentially a Mirage V with special "pop out" canards (nicknamed "whiskers" or "mustache" by test pilots) in the nose that deploy at low speed to increase manouverbility and lower the take-off and landing speed. Whilst the canards were retracted during high speed flight in real life (making it look almost identical to a Mirage V, besides the shorter vertical stabilizer strake), i have modelled the canards in the "deployed" position.