Description

VMKC 48014 Mirage 5E2 conversion

In 1977 Egypt ordered a batch of 16 Mirage 5E2 aircraft which were to be backed with Saudi funds. The Mirage 5E2 is a fighter-bomber equipped with the Aida II navigation/attack systems employed by the Alpha Jet MS2 including the Sagem Uliss 81 Inertial Navigation System, a HUD, a Thomson-CSF TMV630 Laser Rangefinder & Marked Target Seeker. After the Camp David accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, Saudi Arabia cancelled their financial support to the Egyptian arms deals. Therefore, the last purchase, namely 16 Mirage 5E2, had to be financed by Egyptians after their break with Riyadh. All Mirage 5E2’s were delivered to Egypt in 1983 along the Dassault-Breguet Alpha Jets ordered almost simultaneously.

These aircraft were operated by the 73rd Squadron with base in Marsa Maruth AB. In late 2000 the remaining 13 aircraft were overhauled at PAC in Kamra, where they received a locally developed chaff flare suite.  In 2019 the surviving Mirage 5E2 aircraft were said to have been sold to Pakistan.

Contents:

Cast resin parts

1. Nose section
2. Laser rangefinder
3. T type antenna (on laser rangefinder)
4. Vertical rear cockpit antenna
5. Barracuda RWR (front and rear tail)
6. MOHAFIZ counter measures suite (right side rear fuselage only)

3D printed parts

1. instrument panel