Kfir Fighter Jet: Israel's Homegrown Answer to the Mirage ... by producing its own unlicensed copy of the Mirage 5- the Nesher- equipped with technical specifications of the platform gathered ...

Israel reverse-engineered the Mirage, resulting in the Nesher and later the Kfir ... But the Mirage IIIC’s limited range meant the jet could not conduct many of the ground-attack missions ...