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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Kfir (Was: Re: F-19 vs. F-117)
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.042733.29042@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 04:27:33 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


In article <1990Jul31.022951.19855@cbnews.att.com> Don.Allingham@FtCollins.NCR.COM (Don Allingham) writes:

>Isn't the Kfir C-2 Israel's Mirage III derivative?  How does this
>compare to other fighters?  

The first Israeli version of the Mirage III was known as the Nesher (Dagger).
Argentina was an export customer for this variant; I don't know of any others.
The Kfir (Lion Cub) was the follow-on aircraft.  I believe the Nesher 
retained the Mirage's SNECMA Atar engine, unlike the Kfir which has the GE
J79.

Geoff


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