Israel gets it's Mirage 5J's as scheduled...

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Dassault Mirage 5J - 119 'Bat' Squadron, Israeli Air Force, 1969

 

 

 

 

 

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Superb machine, and excellent screenshots.

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Dassault Mirage 5J - No.113 'Hornet' Squadron, Israeli Air Force, 1972

 

 

 

 

 

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It is not as fictional as you may think.

There are some indications, that France delivered the Mirage 5 to Israel after a while and that the famous story of the Mossad action, where they had stolen the blueprints of the Mirage5, so that the Israeli Aircraft Industry was able to build the Nesher, was only a red herring.

Some years ago was an eye witness report of an american technician in the very reliable german Aircraft Magazin "Fliegerrevue", where he told the story, that the Mirage 5 were disassembled in major parts, when he arrived with a C-141 at a french airfield. The aircraft were loaden into the cargoplane and flown to Israel. There israeli and french technicians reassembled the planes which were named Nesher in israeli service.

 

The indications, that the story is true shall be that argentinian Daggers (the Nesher was sold to Argentinia after phasing out of IAF) have parts with nameplates with the writing "Made in France". If the Israelis would have built this planes as Nesher by their own, some say, they would never write "Made in France" on it, but "Made in Israel".

 

I will try to find th original article.

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It is not as fictional as you may think.

There are some indications, that France delivered the Mirage 5 to Israel after a while and that the famous story of the Mossad action, where they had stolen the blueprints of the Mirage5, so that the Israeli Aircraft Industry was able to build the Nesher, was only a red herring.

Some years ago was an eye witness report of an american technician in the very reliable german Aircraft Magazin "Fliegerrevue", where he told the story, that the Mirage 5 were disassembled in major parts, when he arrived with a C-141 at a french airfield. The aircraft were loaden into the cargoplane and flown to Israel. There israeli and french technicians reassembled the planes which were named Nesher in israeli service.

 

The indications, that the story is true shall be that argentinian Daggers (the Nesher was sold to Argentinia after phasing out of IAF) have parts with nameplates with the writing "Made in France". If the Israelis would have built this planes as Nesher by their own, some say, they would never write "Made in France" on it, but "Made in Israel".

 

I will try to find th original article.

Oh, I'm all too aware of the speculation involving the '5J'. Would love to know the real truth!