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Here's how US Air Force pilots learn to fly French Mirage fighters
We are the Mighty ^ | October 11, 2017 | Harold Hutchison

Posted on 10/11/2017 10:32:32 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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To: JimRed; njslim
Is there a white flag surrender pod attached?

Why don't you ask the US Army Green Berets who were ambushed in Niger by Al Qaeda last week about the French. It was French helicopters who came in and airlifted out the Green Berets and their dead and wounded.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/06/us-troops-killed-in-niger-identified-as-decorated-green-berets.html

I know it's cool to poke fun at the French, but they were with us in Afghanistan for over 10 years, and they are with us in Africa right now.
21 posted on 10/11/2017 1:53:23 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: DesertRhino

Amen.


22 posted on 10/11/2017 1:54:08 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: higgmeister
Bird colonel.

In his defense we had the green bag name tags that showed Lt Smyth's RCAF wings. The Col was ready to ream Lt Smyth (and those of us enjoying it) out then saw the Canadian wings. Most of us were smart enough to run into the cargo bay to laugh.

The look on the colonel's face was priceless, cherry red with white bug eyes. Then Lt Smyth smartly saluted again as the Colonel departed!!

23 posted on 10/11/2017 2:21:19 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: sukhoi-30mki
US Navy and Marine pilots flew the Israeli version of the Mirage V+ , the Kfir / F-21a Lion, as aggressors in the Top Gun program.
24 posted on 10/11/2017 5:33:51 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: DesertRhino

No joke, Saudi and Pakistan are the ones that really kill me.


25 posted on 10/11/2017 8:22:49 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Haiku Guy

No joke. A lot of people think that the pic is photoshopped to show more bombs than it actually carried (at least on that test flight, don’t ask me how feasible it was or what it did for its combat range!). It’s not fake, I was in high school in the mid-80s and this was a poster on my wall for years until I joined the Navy at age 18.


26 posted on 10/11/2017 8:28:59 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: JimRed
"Is there a white flag surrender pod attached?"

Kind of:


27 posted on 10/11/2017 8:39:47 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: DesertRhino

I’m not some great lover of the French but there’s a few things that I like.

First off, I like that they’re not members of NATO. NATO is a joke, it is a huge fail. The world laughs at NATO, it’s an organization that can’t get out of its own way. The only purpose it serves is to be a cushy assignment for generals and their perfumed staffs.

Second, I like that France doesn’t let anybody tell them what to do with their nuclear programs (energy and weapons). They tested a new hydrogen bomb in an underwater test in the mid-1990s and told anybody who didn’t like it to go suck it. I like that. Whenever the enviralists don’t like something the USA is doing and starts whining, we always kowtow to them and shut it down. We buckle like a belt and it pisses me off to no end.

Third: and speaking of nukes, it’s the worst-kept secret in the world that we provided France with all kinds of nuclear information in the 1970s, including the design of the neutron bomb, which they’ve tested and have in their inventory. It’s pretty sad when we can’t trust our future govt. officials to be proper stewards of our nuclear inventory, so we have to turn it loose on France who is more trusted to do what’s right and show strength in the face of liberal whiners.


28 posted on 10/11/2017 8:40:21 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: pfflier

I love it! Thanks for the story!


29 posted on 10/12/2017 12:03:43 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

The current user base of the Mirage 2000 is listed as Egypt, India, Peru, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Taiwan,
Qatar and Brazil. All of these countries have military ties with the U.S. and do buy U.S. weaponry. So I’m not sure which of these can be termed as hostile.


30 posted on 10/12/2017 12:36:28 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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I know it's cool to poke fun at the French, but they were with us in Afghanistan for over 10 years, and they are with us in Africa right now.

I'm still pissed at them for surrendering to Germany twice and forbidding our F-111s crossing their territory on the way to Libya, as well as taking in Muslims by the tens of thousands. BTW, I had not heard about any of their recent military exploits, but then I don't read LeMonde.

31 posted on 10/12/2017 7:48:28 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I thought that Iran and Syria were flying it, too. Or is that just Mirages in general, not the 2000?


32 posted on 10/13/2017 10:30:16 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I’m not sure if Syria has used any type of Mirage yet. Iran operates a few Mirage F1s, an older swept-wing design. There is no point in exercising with a newer delta-wing design to plan against F1s.


33 posted on 10/13/2017 9:24:09 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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