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<blockquote data-quote="federicobarbarroja" data-source="post: 786542">The Cheetah C fighter jet was built on the frame of the Mirage III South Africa bought from France in the 1960s. An arms embargo against the apartheid regime from 1977 to 1994 meant the French fighter could not be replaced. As an alternative, local experts started upgrading the Mirage's weapon systems and avionics by the mid-1980s, and the Cheetah was born. The Cheetah programme to upgrade the South African Air Force's (SAAF) fleet of Dassault Mirage III supersonic fighters was started in 1984, by the then Atlas Aviation (now Denel Aerospace). (Previously, from 1975, Atlas had assembled some of the SAAF's Mirage IIIs as well as its Mirage F1s.) At that time, South Africa operated Mirage IIICZ (Z being the suffix indicating that the aircraft were manufactured for the SAAF), IIIBZ, IIIDZ, IIID2Z, IIIE, IIIRZ and IIIR2Z versions. Powerplant&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 1x Snecma Atar 9K50, 72 kN (15,873 lbf) thrust turbojet <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/rsa/cheetah.htm">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/rsa/cheetah.htm</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="federicobarbarroja, post: 786542"] The Cheetah C fighter jet was [B]built on the frame of the Mirage III[/B] South Africa bought from France in the 1960s. An arms embargo against the apartheid regime from 1977 to 1994 meant the French fighter could not be replaced. As an alternative, local experts started upgrading the Mirage's weapon systems and avionics by the mid-1980s, and the Cheetah was born. The Cheetah programme to upgrade the South African Air Force's (SAAF) fleet of Dassault Mirage III supersonic fighters was started in 1984, by the then Atlas Aviation (now Denel Aerospace). (Previously, from 1975, Atlas had assembled some of the SAAF's Mirage IIIs as well as its Mirage F1s.) At that time, South Africa operated Mirage IIICZ (Z being the suffix indicating that the aircraft were manufactured for the SAAF), IIIBZ, IIIDZ, IIID2Z, IIIE, IIIRZ and IIIR2Z versions. [B]Powerplant 1x Snecma Atar 9K50, 72 kN (15,873 lbf) thrust turbojet [/B] [url]http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/rsa/cheetah.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]

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Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982