Dassault Mirage F1 Facts for Kids

A Mirage F1 flying.

The Mirage F1 is a famous French fighter jet. It was designed to be both an air superiority fighter (meaning it's great at fighting other planes in the sky) and an attack aircraft (meaning it can bomb targets on the ground). This powerful jet first flew on December 23, 1966, and joined the French Air Force in 1973. It was built by a company called Dassault Aviation. Today, countries like France, Iran, and Morocco still use the Mirage F1.

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Mirage F1 from the Escadron de chasse 1/5 Vendée.
A Mirage F1C from EC 2/30 Normandie-Niemen at the 1975 Paris Air Show.
Two French Air Force Mirage F1Cs flying together in 1986.
A group of fighter jets, including a French Mirage F1C, during Operation Desert Shield.
An Ecuadoran Mirage F1JA during a joint exercise in 1986.
A Hellenic Air Force Mirage F1CG.
A Moroccan Mirage F1CH in 2007.
Four Mirage F1CZs flying in formation over Air Force Base Ysterplaat around 1982.
A South African Air Force (SAAF) Mirage F1CZ performing an aerial display.
A Spanish Air Force F1M at an airshow in 2010.
A Mirage F1BD, a two-seat version, in 2009.
Underside view of a SAAF Mirage F1AZ flying overhead in 2002.
A Mirage F1B performing a flight display at the 2008 Royal International Air Tattoo.
A Spanish Mirage F1CE at RAF Coltishall, England, in 1988.
A Mirage F1ED of the Libyan Air Force in 1981.
A Jordanian Mirage F1EJ flying with an American F-16 Fighting Falcon over Iraq in 1996.
Four Mirage F1CRs flying over Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, in 2006.
A French Air Force Mirage F1CR at the 2009 Royal International Air Tattoo.
A Mirage F1AZ at Air Force Base Swartkop, Gauteng, around 1996.
An Aerosud Mirage F1.
Mirage F1 operators, current (blue) and former (red).
An Iranian Air Force Mirage F1BQ.
An Iraqi Air Force Mirage F1BQ.
A Jordanian Air Force Dassault Mirage F1EJ.
A Qatari Air Force Mirage F1EDA.
Dassault Mirage F1 3-view drawings.
The Thomson CSF Cyrano IV radar unit.
Different types of bombs next to a Mirage F1.

Dassault Mirage F1 facts for kids

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