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| | Dassault Mirage 2000 |
 | | Designed as a competitor for the General Dynamics F-16 Falcon, which defeated the Mirage F1 in a contest for a new jet fighter for the air forces of Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and Norway, the Mirage 2000 was a small single-engined, delta wing fighter, a development of the Mirage III fighter that first flew in 1956. |
 | | Unlike its predecessor, the new Mirage 2000 was an unstable aircraft with full fly-by-wire, quadruplex system with four analog computers, full authority on three axes (pitch, roll and yaw) and no mechanical back-up. |
 | | Because the Mirage 2000 used the Mirage III as a basis it was possible to develop the aircraft in only 27 months. |
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