Dassault Mirage III

Dassault Mirage III adalah sebuah pesawat tempur supersonik sayap delta yang dibuat di Prancis oleh Dassault Aviation selama tahun 1950, dan dimanufaktur baik di Prancis maupun di beberapa negara lainnya. Pesawat ini adalah pesawat tempur yang sukses, dijual ke berbagai pasukan udara di seluruh dunia dan masih tetap diproduksi. Beberapa pasukan udara kecil lainnya yang masih menerbangkan Mirage III, contohnya pasukan udara di Negara Argentina, Chili, Kolombia, Mesir, Gabon, Libya, Pakistan (operator terbesar), Peru, dan Venezuela.

Dassault Mirage III

Mirage III
Tipe	Interceptor aircraft
Terbang perdana	17 November 1956
Diperkenalkan	1961
Status	Active service
Pengguna utama	Angkatan Udara Prancis
Pengguna lain	Angkatan Udara Pakistan
Jumlah produksi	1,422
Varian	Dassault Mirage IIIV Dassault Mirage 5 Atlas Cheetah

Operator Sipil

•  Swiss Espace Passion Foundation operates a single Mirage III-DS (S/N 101/228F) civil registration HB-RDF^[1]

Operator Militer

•  Argentina
•  Pakistan (scheduled to be replaced with the PAC JF-17 in 2015)

Mantan Operator Militer

•  Prancis
•  Australia (retired in 1988, 50 sold to Pakistan)
•  Brasil 20/8 MirageIIIE/D (retired 2005)
•  Belgia (retired, 20 sold to Chile in 1994)
•  Chili (retired 2006)
•  Kolombia (retired 2010)
•  Mesir
•  Spanyol (retired in 1991, sold to Pakistan in 1992)
•  Gabon
•  Israel
•  Lebanon (sold to Pakistan in 2000)
•  Libya (sold to Pakistan in 2004)
•  Peru (2007)
•  South Africa (retired 1990)
•  Swiss (retired)
•  Uni Emirat Arab( Abu Dhabi retired)
•  Venezuela (2007)
•  Zaire

Spesifikasi (Mirage IIIE)

Data dari Encyclopedia of World Military Aircraft^[2]

Ciri-ciri umum

• Kru: 1
• Panjang: 15.03 m
• Rentang sayap: 8.22 m
• Tinggi: 4.50 m
• Luas sayap: 34.85 m²
• Berat kosong: 7,050 kg
• Berat isi: 9,600 kg
• Berat maksimum saat lepas landas: 13,700 kg
• Mesin: 1 × SNECMA Atar 09C turbojet
  • Dorongan kering: 41.97 kN (9,436 lbf)
  • Dorongan dengan pembakar lanjut: 60.80 kN (13,668 lbf)

Kinerja

• Laju maksimum: Mach 2.2 (2,350 km/h, 1,268 knots, 1,460 mph) at 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
• Radius tempur: 1,200 km (647 nmi, 746 mi)
• Jangkauan feri: 4,000 km (2,152 nmi, 2,486 mi)
• Langit-langit batas: 17,000 m
• Laju tanjak: 83 m/s+

Persenjataan

• Senjata api: 2× 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA 552 cannons with 125 rounds per gun
• Roket: 2× Matra JL-100 drop tank/rocket pack, each with 19× SNEB 68 mm rockets and 66 US gallons (250 liters) of fuel
• Rudal: 2× AIM-9 Sidewinders OR Matra R550 Magics plus 1× Matra R530,
• Bom: 4,000 kg (8,800 lb) of payload on five external hardpoints, including a variety of bombs, reconnaissance pods or Drop tanks; French Air Force IIIEs through 1991, equipped for AN-52 nuclear bomb.

Album

• Dassault Mirage III
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  French Mirage IIIR
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  Mirage IIICJ in Israeli Air Force museum (13 victory markings)

Referensi

1. "Swiss Aircraft Registry". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2012-04-01. Diakses tanggal 29 August 2012.
2. Donald and Lake 1996, p. 125.

Bibliografi

• Atlejees, Leephy. Armscor Film by Armscor, SABC and Leephy Atlejees. Public broadcast by SABC Television, 1972, rebroadcast: 1982, 1984.
• Baker, Nigel and Tom Cooper. "Middle East Database: Dassault Mirage III & Mirage 5/Nesher in Israeli Service".www.acig.org, Air Combat Information Group Journal (ACIG), 26 September 2003. Retrieved: 1 March 2009.
• Breffort, Dominique and Andre Jouineau. "The Mirage III, 5, 50 and derivatives from 1955 to 2000." Planes and Pilots 6. Paris: Histoire et Collections, 2004. ISBN 2-913903-92-4.
• "Cheetah: Fighter Technologies". Archimedes 12. June 1987.
• Cooper, Tom. "Middle East Database: War of Attrition, 1969-1970." www.acig.org, Air Combat Information Group Journal (ACIG), 24 September 2003. Retrieved: 1 March 2009.
• "The Designer of the B-1 Bomber's Airframe". Wings Magazine, Vol. 30/No 4, August 2000, p. 48.
• Donald, David and Jon Lake, eds. Encyclopedia of World Military Aircraft. London: AIRtime Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-880588-24-2.
• Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. New York: Smithmark Books, 1994, ISBN 0-07607-0904-1.
• Jackson, Paul. "Mirage III/5/50 Variant Briefing". World Air Power Journal 14, 15, 16.
• Lake, Jon. "Atlas Cheetah". World Air Power Journal 27: 42–53, Winter 1966.
• Pérez, San Emeterio Carlos. Mirage: Espejismo de la técnica y de la política. Madrid: Armas 30. Editorial San Martin, 1978. ISBN 84-7140-158-4.
• Rogers, Mike. VTOL Military Research Aircraft. London: Foulis, 1989. ISBN 0-85429-675-1.
• Schürmann, Roman. Helvetische Jäger. Dramen und Skandale am Militärhimmel (in German). Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-85869-406-5.

Pranala luar

• The History of the Dassault Mirage III in Brazil (with pictures) - Milavia.net
• The Dassault Mirage III/5/50 Series from Greg Goebel's AIR VECTORS
• Mirage III/5/50 at FAS.org
• Mirage Argentina, el sitio de los Deltas argentinos - details, side views, and pictures of Argentine mirages (in Spanish). Retrieved: 17 May 2008, Diarsipkan 2008-05-05 di Wayback Machine.
• Diarsipkan 2010-04-29 di Wayback Machine.