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...Islamic states. An Elysée spokesman later said that no spare parts for French weapons in the Iraqi arsenal would be forthcoming while the fighting continued. But he said that France would honor a $1.6 billion arms agreement with Iraq involving the sale of 60 Mirage F-l jet fighters, as well as tanks, antitank weapons, radar, guided missiles and patrol boats-all part of an Iraqi attempt to diversify its weapons inventory away from total dependence on the Soviet Union...
...French response was more muted. Iraq is now the largest supplier of French oil after Saudi Arabia. French sales to Baghdad surpass $400 million a year, including a recent contract for 36 Mirage F-l jets. On the ground that the three Iraqi guards who shot at the Palestinian kidnaper were diplomats, and thus immune from prosecution under the 1961 Vienna Convention, President Giscard merely ordered them home on the first available plane...
Many French and British officials are convinced, in fact, that the environmental issue raised by U.S. opponents is actually a smokescreen. The French are still smarting over last July's arms deal in which the U.S. aced out their Mirage F-l combat plane by persuading NATO to choose the American-designed F-16 as its standard fighter. They see U.S. opposition to the Concorde as a move to protect the American aerospace industry, which despite a bad year still supplies 90% to 95% of the commercial aircraft flown outside the Soviet Union. The British take a similar point...
This bizarre "antisymmetrical" configuration, Jones contends, is superior to the familiar swing-wing design of, say, the Air Force F-l I I or the Navy F14, or the fixed-wing design of the British-French Concorde. Although drag is decreased when the wings of these aircraft are angled back, he says, another aerodynamic factor comes increasingly into play. At supersonic speeds, the swept back wings create noticeable pressure on each other; Jones likens the interference effect to that created when two motorboats speed alongside each other and waves from the bow of one boat slam into the hull...
...orders this year. The Defense Department also continues to reduce purchases as the Viet Nam War winds down. Moreover, technical problems until recently held up development of a more powerful engine for Boeing's 747, and production of an engine with more thrust for General Dynamics' F-l 11 fighter-bomber is behind schedule...