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...Vulcan, which is electrically operated and fires 6,000 rounds a minute through six barrels. The Super-Mirage is equipped with a U.S.-manufactured J-79 General Electric engine similar to the one that powers U.S.-built Phantoms. Israeli engineers have also installed the J-79 in their older Mirage3 jets, replacing the French Atar engines. As a result, they have better aircraft: the switch has boosted Mirage3 speeds...
...with which they had extensive experience. Because they helped France in the development of the more sophisticated Mirage-5, they were familiar with that model as well. The Israelis may also have been helped by a Swiss engineer who is awaiting trial on charges of stealing 132,000 Mirage3 blueprints and selling them to Israel for $200,000. The blueprints were said to have detailed the manufacture of Mirage tools and dies as well as diagramming the multiple parts of the jet itself...
Hardly a Crater. Streaking in ahead of the dawn, the first waves of Israeli Mirage3 fighter-bombers simultaneously destroyed four Egyptian airbases in the Sinai Peninsula, site of Nasser's massive buildup against Israel in the past month. Some 200 of Nasser's frontline fighters, mostly Russian-built MIG-21s, were caught and destroyed on the ground. At almost the same time, Israeli jets hit Arab bases in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. They swept in from the sea to hit Egyptian bases deeper inside Egypt; and after landing only long enough to refuel, they hammered away until...
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