Dassault/BAC Mirage IVS

Started by Devilfish, September 23, 2014, 11:00:41 PM

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sandiego89

Really great.  Like it a lot.  Would look really great with some conventional weapons as well.
Dave "Sandiego89"
Chesapeake, Virginia, USA

Devilfish

It'll have a nuclear deterant hanging underneath, as soon as I design and build it.....

Thorvic

Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Hobbes

I like the TSR-2 style cockpit canopies (or did the Mirage have a similar arrangement?).

As for nuclear deterrent: the RAF standardized on the WE177 bomb, but how about a nuclear version of Sea Eagle? Elongate the Sea Eagle a bit for longer range (I think the WE177 charge would fit inside the existing payload space).

Or alternatively, go with ASMP. 

Thorvic

Quote from: Hobbes on September 27, 2014, 05:16:01 AM
I like the TSR-2 style cockpit canopies (or did the Mirage have a similar arrangement?).

As for nuclear deterrent: the RAF standardized on the WE177 bomb, but how about a nuclear version of Sea Eagle? Elongate the Sea Eagle a bit for longer range (I think the WE177 charge would fit inside the existing payload space).

Or alternatively, go with ASMP. 

Your thinking 'Megaton' Martel which was a proposed version on the Martel
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Go4fun

What is the giant black spot on the bottom?
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Dizzyfugu

Quote from: Go4fun on September 27, 2014, 07:13:39 AM
What is the giant black spot on the bottom?

The original radar fairing of the Mirage IV bomber.

PR19_Kit

Quote from: Hobbes on September 27, 2014, 05:16:01 AM
I like the TSR-2 style cockpit canopies (or did the Mirage have a similar arrangement?).

Yes, they're very similar. Both manufacturers and operators reckoned the GIB didn't need to look outside, he was only the navigator.  ;D
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rickshaw

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 27, 2014, 08:56:36 AM
Quote from: Hobbes on September 27, 2014, 05:16:01 AM
I like the TSR-2 style cockpit canopies (or did the Mirage have a similar arrangement?).

Yes, they're very similar. Both manufacturers and operators reckoned the GIB didn't need to look outside, he was only the navigator.  ;D

Darkness also helped him use the relatively dark displays on the radar of the day.  The RN carried to extremes with the "coal hole" on the Vixen.   The US also used to do it, just look at the Vigilante, for example.  It wasn't until they got into a real shootin' dogfightin' war with the North Vietnamese that they realised the GIB's eyes could be critical.
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Glenn Gilbertson

That is a really good looking "might have been". :thumbsup: