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Old 25th Jul 2018, 20:28
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Ken,

Fair call, although I suspect this has come out of an older design study.

Interesting regarding the Mirage2000. I thought when it came out it was ahead of it's time. Not in the use of a Delta though!
But in it's performance being optimised for the top right hand corner of the envelope. If it had had decent missiles and radar it could have owned the high ground!
Rather than fighting in an area to everyone else advantage (lower down and slower)!

I certainly found the 2 seat low level attack version an interesting choice.

I'm sure you would know but I always thought the F-18 was far to much the other way compared to the Mirage ( optimised for low and slow) - perfected the Sopwith camel for low speed handling you could argue!
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