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This is the second largest city in France, with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate, but Reyes is not in the mood to enjoy those alluring scenery and experience the romantic country, and all his energy is focused on the advanced fighter jets.

Falcon Reyer, he has always thought that he was born for the sky!

Assigned to combat units, Reyes first flew the MiG-21, a small, agile fighter with excellent maneuverability, and in 80 years, he shot down an Iranian fighter plane, which became his first achievement.

After that, he changed to fly the MiG-25, and he developed an attachment to this fighter, he liked the feeling of triple the speed of sound, and the feeling of seeing the Earth from the edge of the atmosphere.

He had the feeling of looking down on the earth as if he were the lord of all things, when in reality he was also the lord of the sky!

Before switching to the Mirage 4000, he was actually a little resistant to the order to send him to France, is this French Mirage 4000 fighter really that magical?

However, he is still studying hard, mastering all kinds of knowledge needed to operate the Mirage 4000, which is an advanced fighter with fly-by-wire operation, which is essentially different from the previous MiG-25 and other fighters, and the instruments in the cockpit are no longer the bulky mechanical instruments of the Soviet-style fighters, but the same as the F-20 by two display screens to form the main data display. ≦≧

Moreover, even on the simulator, Reyer felt the width of the cockpit, unlike the MiG-25, the seats in this cockpit are much higher on both sides, as if he was riding on a fighter, the field of vision is very broad, if driving the MiG-25 is like driving a tank in the periscope, then, driving the Mirage 4000, it is like driving a convertible sports car!

This feeling, when he actually sat in the cockpit of the Mirage 4000, Reyer's feeling was even stronger, and at the same time, he immediately liked this kind of fighter!

Because it is a twin-engine heavy fighter, it is an enlarged version of the Mirage 2000, so the cockpit of the Mirage 4000 has also become larger, and the rear of the cockpit has also become glass, so that sitting in the cockpit, you can have a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery. ≦≧

With the end of the development process of the Mirage 4000, the initial production version of the Mirage 4000 has been produced at a low speed and delivered simultaneously with the Mirage 2000.

The Mirage 2000 was delivered to the French Air Force, and the Mirage 4000 was delivered to the Iraqi Air Force!

The four Mirage 4000s, which were produced at a low speed in the early days, finally ushered in the day when they returned to Iraq.

This Mirage 4000 adopts the delta wing layout that Dassault is good at, and the front full-motion canard wing is implemented at the suggestion of His Excellency Cusay, which constitutes the basic aerodynamic layout of the Mirage 4000.

Since the radar with amplified antenna developed for the Mirage 4000 is still being developed by Thomson, the radar of this batch of fighters uses the same type of radar as the French Air Force, and it has not shrunk at all.

In the later stage, because the nose of the Mirage 4000 is larger, it can be replaced with a larger radar antenna, so the performance of the radar even exceeds that of the Mirage 2000 used by the French Air Force.

The Mirage 4000 is mainly equipped with the Matra 530 medium-range missile and the Magic short-range air-to-air missile, and French technicians can integrate other missiles into the fire control system for Iraq, including the Sparrow and Sidewinder that Iraq now uses, and can also be medium-range missiles developed by other European countries. ≦≧

The only thing that makes Dassault feel a little sorry is that the engine used in the Mirage 4000, this single-rotor M53 engine, because it cannot match the strong maneuverability, in order to avoid another surge, Dassault technicians have adopted a simple method: by changing the control law of the fly-by-wire system, the aircraft is not working in that state, which is equivalent to limiting the maneuverability of the aircraft in disguise, but this measure can only be taken until the new engine is successfully developed.

The fuel capacity of the Mirage 4000 is three times that of the Mirage 2000, and the Mirage 4000 can carry three large auxiliary fuel tanks, one on each side of the wing and under the belly, and the transfer range has reached nearly 5,000 kilometers, and it can fly directly from Marseille to Iraq. (Since historically, this fighter has not been in service, so there is no specific data on the transfer range, but the combat radius of this fighter is 2,000 kilometers, so the transfer range of 5,000 kilometers should be about the same.) ≦≧）

This is also the charm of a heavy fighter! And the Su-27 fighters of the Sukhoi Design Bureau never even need to attach auxiliary fuel tanks or refuel in the air, so they have a large enough combat radius.

So, these four Mirage 4000s, chose the route of flying directly from Marseille to Baghdad.

Reyes walked to his own plane, these four fighters, all painted in the paint of the Iraqi Air Force, looking at this large fighter, although not as imposing as the huge rectangular air intake of the MiG-25, the shock cone also has a fierce performance.

It's time for this powerful fighter to fly back to the country it wants to defend!

Reye stepped up the gangway, and at the same time, the Iraqi maintenance personnel who had gone abroad to study maintenance followed up to check whether Reyer's seat belt was fastened and whether the cockpit cover that had been lowered was locked, and then moved the ladder.

Reyer looked at the two rectangular displays in front of him, flipped the familiar switches, and started the two engines at the tail. ≦≧

If it was a Soviet-style fighter, a huge roar in the tail had already been heard at this time, but the cockpit sound insulation of the Mirage 4000 was very good, and he only knew that the engines had been successfully started only by staring at the display.

Brake is released, and the Mirage 4000 is slowly sliding towards the runway.

At this time, the two Mirage 4000s in front of them were already taking off in a two-plane formation.

Although a total of six pilots came to train during the same period, led by Reyer, only two Iraqi pilots participated in this long transition flight, and the pilots of the two fighters in front of them were French.

Reyes looked to the side, one of his Arab brothers had also slipped to the designated position, and he said to the tower in half-baked French: "012 requests to take off." ”

"You can take off." A voice came from inside the tower, and then added, "Have a good journey." ”

Reyer released the brake, did not turn on the afterburner, just adjusted the right throttle to the maximum, and felt a strong push back feeling, on the front display, the speed display was beating rapidly.

Just after taxiing for a distance of 600 meters, Reyer felt that the plane wanted to flutter its wings, he pulled the lever back a little, and the nose of the plane was lifted lightly, and then, the whole fuselage was light, and it was off the ground.

When piloting the MiG-25, the MiG-25 is also a heavy fighter, and it also has this feeling of pushing back, but the MiG-25 has to run at least more than 1,000 meters before it can fly, and the hydraulic system of operation has a certain resistance, unlike this, the operating lever is very soft. The MiG-25 is like a grumpy man, and the Mirage 4000 is cold and restrained.

Behind him, another Iraqi pilot, Captain Omar, had already followed him and flew into the sky.

At this time, the blue sky was like a wash, and the two Mirage 4000s that took off after followed the fighters in front, and they formed a formation together and flew into the sky over the Mediterranean Sea in a southeasterly direction.

Four Mirage 4000s have finally embarked on the route back home, and the return of these four fighters represents the birth of a powerful Iraqi Air Force!

With a smile on his goggles-like face, Reyes is accustomed to the MiG-25's one-piece helmet, which can adapt to pressurization at an altitude of 30,000 meters, while the helmet with an oxygen mask has not been used since leaving the MiG-21.

However, the vision of this helmet is much better, coupled with the bubble-shaped cockpit, almost everything around you can be seen.

On the steering stick, the soft force feedback came, because it is fly-by-wire control, the piloting of this fighter is the same in any airspace, and it will not be like the original fighter, with a small amount of high-altitude rods and a large amount of low-altitude rods. Moreover, at any moment, as soon as the lever is released, the fighter will return to level flight.

The Mirage 4000 gives Reyes the feeling that the first is to operate agilely, and the second is to operate agile! Fly-by-wire operation and full-motion canard wings give this fighter greater maneuverability, and Reyer can fly the high-altitude and high-speed MiG-25 out of the MiG-21, and can fly the Mirage 4000 out of a better state than the F-14!

The Mirage 4000 fighter is Iraq's Heavenly Sword!

This Mirage 4000 fighter was introduced to fight the Iranian F-14, but by the time it was really equipped with the Iraqi Air Force, the Iranians' powerful F-14 fleet had almost been grounded due to a lack of spare parts, but its opponents were even more: Israel's F-15, F-16, the US Navy's F-14, F-18, this kind of fighter jet, in the next few years, will be in the limelight.

And while the Mirage 4000 was on its way to Iraq, Reyer's fellow pilots were busy nervously carrying out a long-range attack.

This was another time when the air forces of the Southern Military Region and the Northern Military Region were operating together, with two squadrons of F-20 fighters, two squadrons of Mirage F-1 fighters, three squadrons of MiG-23s, two squadrons of MiG-25s, and one squadron of Tu-22 bombers, participating in this air raid operation together, and they were preparing to take off from various air bases in Iraq.