{"id":153683,"date":"2024-12-02T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/french-mirage-f1-downed-f-14-tomcats-a-100f-super-sabre\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:00:14","slug":"meet-the-french-mirage-f1-that-downed-f-14-tomcats-a-100f-super-sabre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=153683","title":{"rendered":"Meet The French Mirage F1 That Downed F-14 Tomcats &amp; A 100F Super Sabre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Vietnam, it has been rare for US-made             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58724\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fighter-jets\/\"  >fighter jets<\/a><\/span> to be downed in air-to-air engagements with Soviet-made jets &#8211; however the French-made             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"83016\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dassault\/\"  >Dassault<\/a><\/span> Mirage F1 is known to have claimed at least five US-made fighter jets.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027384\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-the-f-15-eagle-has-never-been-shot-down\/\" >No F-15s have been lost in an air-to-air battle<\/a><\/span>, and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026699\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-16s-arrive-in-ukraine-combat-record\/\" >only one F-16 has been confirmed to have been lost in an air-to-air incident<\/a><\/span> &#8211; to a French-made Mirage 2000. During Operation Desert Storm, some of the most capable aircraft Iraq had were its French-made Mirage F1s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirage F1 (&amp; 2000), have downed US-made F-100s, F-14s, and F-16s in Iranian and Turkish service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9442,120,628,94,10187,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-dassault-mirage","category-europe","category-fighter-jets","category-france","category-iraqi-air-force","category-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153684,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153683\/revisions\/153684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}