Brand: Hobby Master

Model: HA1655, Mirage 2000B 5-OU, EC 2/5, FAFL 60th Anniversary, France, 2002

Material: Diecast

Type: Military Aircraft

Scale: 1/72

Length: 20.2cm, Wingspan:12.7cm, Height:7.2cm

[Stock Available. Original, Brand new and unused]

Features:

Authentic 1/72 Scale.

Die-cast Display Model.

Premium Quality Product.

Professionally painted. 

Great attention to detail. 

All markings are Tampoed (pad applied). 

Option to display the model on a stand that is provided. 

Model can be shown with the landing gear in the down or up positions. 

Canopy can be displayed open or closed. 

Pilot figure included. 

Extremely heavy metal with a minimum of plastic. 

Highly collectable.

Recommended Age Range: 14 years & Up

Country/Region of Manufacture: Bangladesh

Background:

The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a multirole, single-engine, delta wing, fourth-generation jet fighter designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation.

Work on what would become the Mirage 2000 originated with the "Delta 1000" project launched in 1972. In contrast to other projects that Dassault had recently worked on, such as the Anglo-French Variable Geometry (AFVG) and Mirage G, the Delta 1000 was an interceptor first and a strike aircraft second while retaining a more affordable single engine configuration. In response to feedback from the French Air Force (Armée de l'air), which sought a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Armée de l'air), the Delta 2000 proposal was redesigned into the Mirage 2000, for which the service issued requirements that matched Dassault's performance estimates in March 1976. On 10 March 1978, only 27 months after the programme was cleared to proceed, the first prototype conducted its maiden flight, during which the aircraft went supersonic. A total of three prototypes and one single-seat demonstrator were produced for the flight test programme. On 20 November 1982, the first production Mirage 2000C (C for chasseur, "fighter") made its first flight; deliveries commenced during the following year.

The Mirage 2000B is a two-seat operational conversion trainer variant which first flew on 11 October 1980. The French Air Force acquired 30 Mirage 2000Bs, and all three AdA fighter wings each obtained several of them for conversion training.

The Free French Air Forces (French: Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, FAFL) were the air arm of the Free French Forces in the Second World War, created by Charles de Gaulle in 1940. The designation ceased to exist in 1943 when the Free French Forces merged with General Giraud's forces. The name was still in common use however, until the liberation of France in 1944, when they became the French Air Army. Martial Henri Valin commanded them from 1941 to 1944, then stayed on to command the Air Army.