Comments by "alex Lo" (@alexlo7708) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. Mirage can't shoot their own brand.
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  2. All they had the same problem. They could not make the engine themself.
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  3. It is at least better than contempolary turbojet the French only had then.
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  4. It looks like China Q-8.
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  5. At the time ,there were only 2 military turbofan engine , TF30 and RR Spey.
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  6.  @thethirdman225  Turbojet doesn't have quick response enough in low speed ,low altitude. Thats why F111 which was design for wide range of attack lo altitude ,hi altitude needs turbofan. At the time US military turbofan was not mature enough, That cause its TF30 engine compressor stall uncertainly, while British Rollsroyce who offered Spey engine as TF40 didn't give US a hint on why.
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  7.  @thethirdman225  UK is the 1st who built afterburner turbofan engine "Spey RB166". US followed through.
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  8. American had innovation idea of pitching its main wing angle to slow down the jet when landing. The Brit went conventional put heavy plane to land and stop,so cable can't handle too far.
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  9. The plane has so many design flaw. Center of weight locates aft the wing. When used as trainer on stall condition, pilot coach can't recover the plane because its tail down and made several fatal accidents to Thai air force. Engine in backward causes heat because it couldn't gain entering wind as front engine ,again engine shutdown before tail stalled. So it was early retired all the fleet then.
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