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Aviation History
1964
1964 - 0024.PDF
FLIGHT International, 2 January 1964 19 COUP D'OEUIL TACTIQUE Now operational at Strasbourg with the 33e Escadre, I'Armee de I'Air, are the first of 50 Dassault Mirage IIIRs ordered for the French Air Force. As the title indicates, they are for tactical strike-reconnaissance. No 33 Escadre, an element of the 4th ATAF, has converted to the Mach 2 Mirages from transonic RF-84FS. The Mirage IIIR marries the air-to- surface armaments of the standard Mirage MIC strike aircraft with the longer fuselage and increased fuel tankage of the HIE long-range intruder version. Unlike the IIICs now in squadron service, it is camou- flaged. It can operate from grass fields as well as from surfaced runways. It was in a Production Mirage IIIR last June that Mme Jacqueline Auriol set the new women's air speed record over a 100km circuit of 1,261 m.p.h., which awaits homologation. in the space occupied by Cyrano fire- control radar in the purely strike versions, the Mirage IIIR carries a set of OMERA cameras: one forward-facing oblique in the e*treme nose, two vertical and four side- •'ys-facing obliques with a choice of ports.
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