Editing Dassault Mirage III (section)

====Balzac / Mirage IIIV====
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One of the offshoots of the Mirage III/5/50 fighter family tree was the ''Mirage IIIV'' vertical take-off and landing ([[VTOL]]) fighter. ("IIIV" is read "three-vee," not "three-five").<ref name = "prof 179">Brindley 1971, pp. 179.</ref> This aircraft featured eight small vertical [[lift jet]]s straddling the main engine. The Mirage IIIV was built in response to a mid-1960s [[NATO]] specification for a VTOL strike fighter. It used eight RB.162-31 lift engines(generating 5,400&nbsp;lb thrust each), long-stroke landing gears, and additional covers to reduce impact of the lift engine exhausts. The main engine was a SNECMA TF-104 turbojet.<ref name="Mirage III fighter jet family, AirForceWorld.com">{{cite news |url=http://airforceworld.com/fighter/eng/mirage3.htm |access-date=26 August 2013 |title=Mirage III fighter jet family, AirForceWorld.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919185000/http://www.airforceworld.com/fighter/eng/mirage3.htm |archive-date=19 September 2013 }}</ref>