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Given that Dewitt lives twenty miles from Boston, he was pleased when his little F1 got back in only four hours. He was not pleased, however, with Dewitt Jr.'s selection: Stop Making Sense (Somerville Theatre...
...Iraqi strikes that preceded the Iranian aerial campaign were apparently carried out by French-built Mirage F1 fighter-bombers equipped to fire Exocet missiles. Iraq took delivery of 28 such F1 models last summer, all specially modified to use the standoff antiship missile that first made its mark during the Falklands war. With a range of up to 1,000 miles, the Mirages are also capable of venturing deeper into the gulf than aircraft used by the Iraqis in the past. Iraq's aim: to interdict oil shipments from the Iranian oil port at Kharg Island, thus pressing Tehran...
...French aircraft exports, worth $900 million, and earned profits of $35 million. As of the first of the year, it had turned out 1,312 Mirage III and Mirage 5 jet fighters (of which two-thirds were exported). Its export sales of warplanes, including the Mirage F1, the Alpha Jet and the Jaguar (built jointly with the British Aircraft Corp.), are unsurpassed by any other European military-aircraft maker...
...aircraft executives and diplomats. The party's host, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, had every reason to splurge. After more than a year of knee-and-gouge competition, Belgium had decided to buy the company's F-16 fighter-interceptor instead of the French Dassault Mirage F1-M53 as a replacement for aging U.S. F-104 Starfighters. That clinched what everyone was calling "the arms deal of the century...
...choice had seemed likely since January, when the U.S. Air Force ordered 650 F-16s for its own fleet. The fighter handles better than its chief competitors, the Swedish Viggen, built by Saab-Scania, and the Mirage F1-M53, built by the French firm Dassault-Breguet. The F-16 also appealed to the consortium because of the savings that would result from standardizing planes of U.S. and NATO forces...