Cheetah fighter jet

The Cheetah is a South African development of the French Mirage III fighter, combining some features of its predecessor with others of the Israeli Kfir (see separate database entry).

Accordingly, the Cheetah shares a common basic configuration with the Mirage III and Kfir, featuring a low-set "dog-tooth" delta wing; fuselage-embedded turbojet engine with semi-circular air intakes on each side of the fuselage and half-cones in the intake opening; no tailplane; and a sharply swept...