The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir (Hebrew: ???????, "Lion Cub") is an Israeli all-weather multirole combat aircraft based on the French Dassault Mirage 5, with Israeli avionics and an Israeli-built version of the General Electric J79 turbojet engine.

DESIGN
The Kfir programme originated in the quest to develop a more capable version of the IAI Nesher, which was already in series production. After General De Gaulle embargoed the sale of arms to Israel, the IAF feared that it might lose qualitative superiority over its adversaries in the future, which were receiving increasingly advanced Soviet aircraft. The main and most advanced type of aircraft available to the IAF was the Mirage, but a severe problem developed due to the Mirage fleet's depletion due to attrition after the Six-Day War. Domestic production would avoid the problem of the embargo completely; efforts to reverse engineer and reproduce components of the Mirage were aided by Israeli espionage efforts to obtain technical assistance and blueprints from third party Mirage operators.

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Performance

Maximum speed: 2,440 km/h (1,520 mph, 1,320 kn) above 11,000 m (36,089 ft)
Maximum speed: Mach 2.3
Combat range: 768 km (477 mi, 415 nmi) (ground attack, hi-lo-hi profile, seven 227 kg (500 lb) bombs, two AAMs, two 1,300 l (340 US gal; 290 imp gal) drop tanks)
Service ceiling: 17,680 m (58,010 ft)
Rate of climb: 233 m/s (45,900 ft/min)

Armament
Guns: 2× Rafael-built 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA 553 cannon with 140 rpg
Rockets: assortment of unguided air-to-ground rockets including the Matra JL-100 drop tank/rocket pack, each with 19× SNEB 68 mm rockets and 66 US gallons (250 liters) of fuel
Missiles: 2× AIM-9 Sidewinders or Shafrir or Python-series AAMs
Bombs: 5,775 kg (12,732 lb) of payload on nine external hardpoints, including bombs such as the Mark 80 series, Paveway series of LGBs

GROUPS
AG6: drop central fuel tank
AG7: parachute
AG8:close cockpit

!SOME RECOMENDATIONS¡
-this plane has an afterburner it automatically turn on at 96 % throttle be carefull cuz this afterburner burn your fuel.

-when you turn off the landing gears, the nose of the aircraft will go up so try to control it so press : W

-normal velocity whitout afertburner: 816 K/H

-whit afterburner: 1264 K/M

thats all i hope that you enjoy this aircraft