Word: mirage3
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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