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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2017, 08:32:33 AM »
You never fail to take it to the next level, mon ami!

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2017, 01:31:18 AM »
a Spirage-5DD was proposed
double-delta
There were also 2 SPirages with little canard foreplanes: SPirage-C2 & SPirajilan:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #27 on: December 01, 2017, 12:16:59 AM »
At http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=957.630 dear ysi_maniac presented weird (and beautiful) Mirage-5/MiG-23 mixes... I have another explanation about these designs: they would be derivatives of the unmanned SPirage-M23 (that was copied in USSR into MiG-23)...

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2017, 02:01:47 PM »
Mirage Carrier and unmanned SPirage: carried

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2017, 02:02:55 PM »
U shaped wing (seen from front) on Mirage and unmanned little SPirage:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #30 on: December 03, 2017, 07:06:45 AM »
I like this spy mini Mirage  :-*
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2017, 01:06:56 PM »
Thanks!

Mirage Carrier and unmanned SPirage: carried
There was, opposite, carried Mirage and SPirage carrier, featuring a huge UAV mother-ship:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2017, 08:58:09 PM »
 Nice one - could be a Mirage IV as the carrier aircraft.

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2017, 01:01:58 AM »
Thanks!

Now you know that the modern expert country about UAV (with lots of export sales in that field) is Israel. In fact, like the Kfir, all that came from Dassault designers then French boycott. Here is the Dassault SPirage J that should have completed the Mirage 5J (this prototype has been painted with a Judaic swastika by a Palestinian worker/refugee):

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #34 on: December 13, 2017, 12:25:04 AM »
Thanks to Robomog's weird topic http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7617.0
here is the SPirage/Mirage "of the 21st century" (when designed in 1977), piloted by a robot (not remote but not human either)...
Thanks Robomog and the sci-fi spirit!

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #35 on: December 13, 2017, 12:45:07 AM »
My Pleasure,  8)
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #36 on: December 13, 2017, 01:19:04 AM »
Hehe that's cute  :-*
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2017, 01:07:38 AM »
Thanks! ;)

There was also a photo-reco version of the SPirage. Not very aerodynamic with its camera of the 1970s, sorry...

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #38 on: December 19, 2017, 01:45:27 AM »
The UAV world is the kingdom of twin-boomers... ;)

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #39 on: December 19, 2017, 02:34:26 AM »
Now that one looks cool !    8) 8) :-*
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #40 on: December 20, 2017, 02:44:29 AM »
Thanks!

And from http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=22.1005 :
Hmmm ... how about a Double-Nez 2 with wider cockpit spacing and the jet intake between the noses?
an unmanned double-nose derivative:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #41 on: December 22, 2017, 03:09:19 PM »
Contrary to the Mirage, the SPirage had no landing gear, but a kind of vertical landing:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #42 on: December 23, 2017, 07:50:54 AM »
Very cool! But your Mirage and SPirage carrier take the cake  :-*
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #43 on: December 28, 2017, 09:45:26 PM »
Thanks a lot.

And as I built the 1/72 plastic Wazault Mini-Miraj (see http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=34.0 ) here is the UAV version of it, but this did not come from Dassault, just using Dassault parts.

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #44 on: December 30, 2017, 04:36:28 PM »
For Stealth reasons, the jet-less SPirage-SRé (Sans Réacteur) used a piston radial engine with propellers:
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #45 on: December 30, 2017, 05:55:39 PM »
Ooh ooh ! another cool one, keep em coming tophe  :smiley:  8)
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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #46 on: January 25, 2018, 01:18:54 AM »
Thanks a lot.
The next one may be the last one. In this family (of unmanned Mirages) there was a simple helicopter too:

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Re: Unmanned Mirages and others
« Reply #47 on: January 25, 2018, 01:27:39 AM »
Of course, together with the helicopter came the autogyro: