Dassault Mirage 5

what is it?

The Dassault Mirage 5 is a French supersonic attack aircraft/fighter-bomber designed by Dassault Aviation during the 1960s and manufactured in France and other countries. It was derived from Dassault's popular Mirage III fighter and spawned several variants of its own, including the IAI Kfir. In the Pakistan Air Force, the Mirage 5 has been modified and is capable of nuclear weapons delivery.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · 8.2 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 2,350 km/htop speed
• size 13.7 tmax take-off weight
• built 582made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 59 years ago, in 1967.
• 🏎️Top speed is 18.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 💥Faster than sound: up to Mach 1.9 (sea-level speed of sound ≈ 1,235 km/h).
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🏔️Can fly 2.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1967-05-19

introduced

1970

status

still flying

number built

582

role

attack aircraft , fighter-bomber

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Dassault Aviation

engines

1× SNECMA Atar 9C

crew

1

length

15.6 m

wingspan

8.2 m

height

4.5 m

max take-off weight

13.7 t

top speed

2,350 km/h

cruise speed

956 km/h

range

—

ceiling

18,000 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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