Dassault Mirage 5

Dassault Mirage 5

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=== Chile ===
=== Chile ===
[[Chile]] incorporated some Mirage 5s under name Mirage Elkan.
[[Chile]] incorporated some Mirage 5s under name Mirage Elkan.

=== Egypt ===
[[File:Egyptian Mirage 5 at Cairo-West 1985.JPEG|thumb|An Egyptian Mirage 5E2 in 1985]]
Egypt has historically used Mirage 5s, with 101 airframes according to most sources, and at least 82 continually modernized overall. They were primarily used as ground strike aircraft and were extensively modernised throughout their time with the Egyptians, and at least one was shot down by Iranian [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat|F-14As]] on 14 March 1986, a Mirage 5SDE. Another Mirage was damaged by an [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4 Phantom]] on the same day. As of 2019, there was some talk to selling old airframes to Pakistan,{{Cite web |date=15 September 2019 |title=Pakistan Plans Purchase of Modernised Mirage 5 Attack Jets From Egypt |url=https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/pakistan-plans-purchase-of-modernised-mirage-5-attack-jets-from-egypt |access-date=15 July 2025 |website=Military Watch Magazine}} though this seems to have not gone through.{{cn|date=January 2026}}


=== Libya ===
=== Libya ===
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The First training squadrons established as OCUs (Operation Conversion Squadrons) were the 1010th "Jerusalem" OCU Squadron at [[Tripoli, Libya|Mitiga (Tripoli)]] supervised by French and Pakistani Instructors, and the other was the Egyptian Operational Training Unit based at [[Tobruk|Nasser (Tobruk)]] Airbase overseen by Pakistani and Egyptian Instructors recently trained in France.
The First training squadrons established as OCUs (Operation Conversion Squadrons) were the 1010th "Jerusalem" OCU Squadron at [[Tripoli, Libya|Mitiga (Tripoli)]] supervised by French and Pakistani Instructors, and the other was the Egyptian Operational Training Unit based at [[Tobruk|Nasser (Tobruk)]] Airbase overseen by Pakistani and Egyptian Instructors recently trained in France.

=== Egypt ===
[[File:Egyptian Mirage 5 at Cairo-West 1985.JPEG|thumb|An Egyptian Mirage 5E2 in 1985]]
Egypt has historically used Mirage 5s, with 101 airframes according to most sources, and at least 82 continually modernized overall. They were primarily used as ground strike aircraft and were extensively modernised throughout their time with the Egyptians, and at least one was shot down by Iranian [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat|F-14As]] on 14 March 1986, a Mirage 5SDE. Another Mirage was damaged by an [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4 Phantom]] on the same day. As of 2019, there was some talk to selling old airframes to Pakistan,{{Cite web |date=15 September 2019 |title=Pakistan Plans Purchase of Modernised Mirage 5 Attack Jets From Egypt |url=https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/pakistan-plans-purchase-of-modernised-mirage-5-attack-jets-from-egypt |access-date=15 July 2025 |website=Military Watch Magazine}} though this seems to have not gone through.{{cn|date=January 2026}}


=== Pakistan ===
=== Pakistan ===