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Old 11-28-2009, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by kozzm0 View Post
time's up, the plane I posted is the IAI Kfir. Mirage3 + stolen plans = Kfir. The Mirage 3's plans were stolen by the Mossad after France embargoed Israel. Israel added their own, better engine and their own avionics and a few other things.
Are you sure about that? I mean Mossad stealing France's blueprints of the Mirage 3. Because I remember reading somewhere, that since France was supplying Israel with planes, tanks, and weapons (before the US took over as the main contributor,) they gave the Israeli's the Mirage 3 because it was becoming outdated for the French Air Force. And also, that's how they got other Mirage's like the IV and another early Mirage (by buying them, and then suiting them up for their own uses, not stealing the prints).
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