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Old 09-16-15, 01:00 PM   #5
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And the first french jet fighters sold to Israel, were fitted with improved copies of the BMW 03 Jet engine, developed in WW2 ..

" ... After the Allied occupation of Germany, Marcel Dassault assisted Hermann Östrich in moving from the American Zone of occupied Germany into the French Zone. Within a couple of years, he was working for Voisin, a division of SNECMA, France's state-owned aircraft engine company. Using the basic design of the 003, he produced the larger Atar jet engine that powered Dassault's Ouragan, Dassault Mirage III and Mystère fighters.[15] ..."

Some kind of "poetic" justice
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