Dragon 1/32 Mirage III E/R (Aust Decals)
The Dassault Mirage III is a reference point of the French aircraft production. It has been produced from the early sixties to provide to Armee de l'Air, the French Air Force, a reliable and effective fighter aircraft. The Mirage III rapidly became a commercial success and it was widely exported to several Countries taking part to a lot of conflicts between the seventies and the eighties. Characterised by the delta wing design without horizontal tail plane, thanks to its Snecma Atar afterburning turbojet, it was able to exceed the speed of Mach. After the introduction of the single-seat interceptor Mirage IIIC, a new multirole and strike version has been implemented. The Mirage IIIE was born and it has been a successful version produced in a significant number of units. It was characterised by a forward fuselage extension to permit the installation of the new avionic system. From the same airframe, including the fitting of cameras in the nose, Dassault has also been developed the reconnaissance variant designed as Mirage IIIR.
Features:
- Detailed ejection seat w/photo-etched pilot restraints
- Choice of fighter or recce instrument panels
- Detailed cockpit with nice relief detailing
- Positionable canopy
- Optional boarding ladder
- Choice of Mirage IIIR or ZR noses
- Both recce noses have positionable access doors and detailed interiors
- Choice of under-nose doppler antenna fairings
- Full-length intake ducts to engine compressor face
- Detailed Atar 9C engine and afterburner chamber
- Engine can be displayed on included engine stand
- Detailed landing gear and wheel wells
- Positionable landing gear
- Positionable rudder
- Positionable elevons
- Optional ventral strake