Special Hobby 1/72 Dassault Mirage IIIC Armee de l'Air

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The Dassault Mirage IIIC Armee de l'Air from our 1/72 scale aircraft model kits range accurately recreates the real-life French jet fighter aircraft. This plastic model kit requires paint and glue to complete.

The Mirage IIIC was the first jet produced in Western Europe to break the double speed of the sound in the level flight. The type was the very first of the family of Mirage fighters IIIC, IIIE, and 5 - some of which are still in active service.

The Mirage IIICJ was the epitome of the Israeli air supremacy in the wars with the neighbouring Arab countries during the War over Water, Six Day War, Attrition War and Yom Kipur War as well as many other more minor conflicts. A great number of Israeli fighter pilots became aces flying their Mirages.

The Mirage IIIC saw service with the domestic Armee de l'Air, too, the first airframes being fitted with a unique belly mounted rocket booster motor to enhance the performance in the initial climb. The later machines had this booster removed to enable them to carry more ordnance to more distant targets. The Mirage IIIC was also delivered to the SAAF and some of the ex-IAF machines found their way to Argentina. The type proved worthy in its role of air superiority fighter.

Seven sprues of grey styrene plus one sprue with clear parts offer highly and finely detailed parts, the kits also has a sheet of decals with markings for four French machines, two of which flew in the natural bare-metal colour (one of them of the early booster-fitted variety), plus one machine in blue-grey over aluminium and one in a later desert scheme.

Manufacturer: Special Hobby
Model: 72476 Dassault Mirage IIIC Armee de l'Air Plastic Aeroplane Model Kit
Scale: 1/72