Dassault Mirage 50AZ

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Dassault Mirage 50AZ - Azerbaijani Air Force, 1994

 

When Azerbaijan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 it wasn't long before a long-standing dispute with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region flared up and escalated into open conflict in the winter of 1992. Never slow to miss an opportunity, Dassault Aviation offered Azerbaijan 30 refurbished Mirage 50 aircraft and these were delivered during the spring of 1993 equipping two squadrons of the Azerbaijani Air Force. After the 1994 ceasefire the surviving Mirage 50's were consolidated into a single fighter-bomber squadron based at Nasosnaya Air Base operating alongside the MiG-25PD interceptors and serving until 2008 when they were replaced with 17 ex-Armée de l'Air Mirage 2000D's.

 

 

 

 

 

This uses the skin from lindr2's Chilean Mirage 50FC (from the SF1 archives) with a slight tweak to one bitmap to fit the SF2 Mirage 5D model and some new Azerbaijani decals.