Mirage 5
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Once upon a time, a french boy sat in his nursery school listening to a teacher reading humpty dumpty. He wondered what he was doing inside an English nursery, and used the story as the inspiration for the Mirage. Affordable, exportable but outdated and poorly designed, they were designed as attack aircraft but became the multirole aircraft for the French Air Force. Mirages equipped for air-superiority in the Falklands conflict were defeated by Harriers, the equivalent of a policeman in riot gear getting beaten up by an old lady and her purse. Fortunately for the French, Battlefront has spared the historical authenticity and given you a very solid bomber aircraft.
In Team Yankee
It's almost identical to a Tornado but has 3+ courage instead of 3+ morale. Fortunately, The Armée de l'Air Française aren't as cowardly as their cousins in the AdT, and will stick around a bit longer after sustaining casualties. A relatively cheap way to kill large blobs of enemies if they dont spread out too much.
As with other NATO strike aircraft, use these things in suicide missions to blast out fractions of the enemy's army: a good pass will literally kill dozens of points in units while a mediocre one against spread out units will earn you the points cost of your aircraft, and then some.
A 30mm autocannon is included if you decide to use these things for shooting helicopters instead of blasting your payload into the enemy. For some reason.
IRL
| French Forces in Team Yankee | |
|---|---|
| Tanks: | AMX-30 |
| Transports: | AMX-10P- VAB |
| Troops: | Section d'infanterie/Chasseurs - Milan Section Antichar |
| Artillery: | AMX Auf1 |
| Anti-Aircraft: | AMX-13 DCA - AMX Roland |
| Tank Hunters: | VAB Mephisto |
| Recon: | AMX-10 RC - AMX-10P VOA |
| Aircraft: | Gazelle HOT - Gazelle 20mm - Mirage 5 |