oh me too I thinks its super awesome. I never knew the series names choices for Mcdonnel Douglas one before or the deHavilland,
Haha you know for the longest I thought the name of Matra, and Magic were how the French referred to their missiles. Matra like" sacred utterance" and Magic missile etc. like names that had to do with mysticism I have no idea where or how I came to that conclusion or read it somewhere. I think Matra can mean incantation in other languages so threw me off.
Already watching it! now and set it to english subs!
Thanks!
I really hope we get some more older mirages soon too there is still some cool unique ones to get.
The airframe is completely different. Everything has changed. Looking similar does not mean they are the same.
It’s not just “new technologies” it’s quite literally a whole new aircraft.
I don’t know why you think the name has anything to do with anything lol. The Super Hornet is called a Hornet but shares nothing in common with the original F-18. They just named it that so it wouldn’t seem like they were creating an entire new aircraft, when they essentially were.
Man I’ve seen a mirage F1 and a mirage III (and a mirage 2000) IRL, standing next to them, and just with their size, there’s simply no comparison. It’d be like comparing a mig21 with a su7
If we go the car route, then you could argue with this reasoning at the Golf is the same as the Polo, the Audi A3, and a skoda, because they share the same chassi and engines, and only the exterior panels and the interior differ. But here we are going back to the « based off » and « related to » blabla, which I did not caught up to before posting my answer
Or even better, the Passat W12 is actually half a Veyron
Think of them this way, those are the equivalent of the Shenyang J-11 to the Sukhoi Su27. They do not apply to the Mirage and Dassault’s variants over the years.
Another example,
The Chevy corvette was always a front engine car. now they are mid engine cars with much more technology. They are still Corvettes at the end of the day & come from an original design heritage.
Same with the F1. Dassault went with the conventional design for moment in history and then returned back to delta configuration of the original design. They are still Mirages.
Of course, it’s a new aircraft, but shares the same design heritage from previous iteration before it.
Now, if you want to go back almost 100 years ago when jet powered combat aircraft were in its infancy and say the P38 is nothing like the F-35 Lightning II JSF today. I guess you have me there…
However, the F-35 still has the same design philosophies that can be traced back to the first Lightning. The P38 was designed for what we today would call “multirole capability”. It assumed Fighter role, Fighter bomber, & served as reconnaissance aircraft.
It is fitting that Lockheed Martin would call the F-35 the Lightning II.
Hope that helps, my bad. did not mean to be abrasive. I thought you were someone else.
