{"id":28858260,"date":"2026-10-20T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/dassault-mystere-iv-french-transonic-fighter-israel-india-history\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:44:41","slug":"dassault-mystere-iv-french-transonic-fighter-israel-india-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/dassault-mystere-iv-french-transonic-fighter-israel-india-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV: France&#8217;s First Transonic Fighter Goes to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Kostia Rozanoff, Dassault&rsquo;s chief test pilot, lifts a silver prototype off the runway and stays aloft for 25 minutes. In level flight the new jet touches Mach 0.92, comfortably beyond what its designers had hoped for. The aircraft is the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mystere-iv\/\">Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV<\/a>, and France has just caught up with the swept-wing age.<\/p>\r\n<p>Seven years earlier the country had no modern fighter industry worth the name. By the end of the decade the Myst\u00e8re IV was flying with three air forces, wearing the colours of the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/patrouille-de-france\/\">Patrouille de France<\/a>, and going to war over the Sinai and the Punjab. It was, in the words of Wikipedia&rsquo;s summary, the first transonic aircraft to enter service with the French Air Force.<\/p>\r\n<p>It also carried an unusual secret for a symbol of French revival: most of the French fleet was paid for by Washington.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 28 September 1952, Melun-Villaroche, pilot Kostia Rozanoff<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Lineage:<\/strong> Ouragan, then Myst\u00e8re II, then Myst\u00e8re IV<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Production:<\/strong> About 410 to 420 Myst\u00e8re IVA, depending on the source<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engine:<\/strong> Rolls-Royce Tay, then the Hispano-Suiza Verdon licence derivative<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Armament:<\/strong> Two 30 mm DEFA cannon, up to about 1,000 kg of underwing stores<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Operators:<\/strong> France, Israel, India<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Wars:<\/strong> Suez 1956, Six-Day War 1967, India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Display team:<\/strong> Patrouille de France, 1957 to 1963<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Hurricane to Mystery<\/h2>\r\n<p>The family begins with the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-ouragan\/\">Dassault MD.450 Ouragan<\/a>, French for hurricane. Marcel Dassault, back from Buchenwald and determined to rebuild French aviation, launched it as a private venture; its prototype first flew on 28 February 1949, again with Rozanoff at the controls. Dassault&rsquo;s own history calls it the Air Force&rsquo;s first jet designed and produced in France. The story of the man himself is told in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/marcel-dassault-bloch-buchenwald-mirage\/\">our profile of Marcel Dassault<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Ouragan was a straight-winged machine, already being overtaken by swept-wing designs when it reached squadrons in 1952. Dassault&rsquo;s answer was pure evolution: keep the Ouragan&rsquo;s fuselage, add a thinner wing swept back at 30 degrees, and call it the Myst\u00e8re. The production Myst\u00e8re IIC equipped the French Air Force from 1954, 150 of them, but it was an interim type and never fought.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/dassault-ouragan-mystere-iv-predecessor.jpg\" alt=\"Dassault MD.450 Ouragan 4-US in French Air Force markings preserved at Savigny-les-Beaune\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Where it all started: a preserved Dassault Ouragan, the straight-winged jet whose fuselage was reworked into the first Myst\u00e8re. Photo: Groumfy69 \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The Myst\u00e8re IV was something else. It looked like its predecessor, yet Dassault describes a genuinely new aircraft: a wing swept to 38 degrees instead of 30, a thinner profile, and a contract, signed on 2 August 1951, for a fighter capable of reaching Mach 1 in a dive.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Twenty-Five Minutes Over Melun<\/h2>\r\n<p>The prototype, Myst\u00e8re IV 01, flew on a British Rolls-Royce Tay engine. That 25-minute first flight in September 1952 delivered more speed than predicted, and the new jet later went supersonic in a dive, a feat that would become routine for its pilots. Early production aircraft kept the Tay, while most of the fleet received the Hispano-Suiza Verdon, a French-built derivative of the same engine.<\/p>\r\n<p>The armament was blunt and effective: two 30 mm DEFA revolver cannon with 150 rounds each, plus around a tonne of bombs, rockets or drop tanks on four underwing points. This was a fighter that could also hit the ground hard, and that double personality would define its war record.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SaPc9lCzbTc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">A former French fighter pilot recalls going supersonic in the Myst\u00e8re IV (in French), from the Conservatoire de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace d&rsquo;Aquitaine.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Paid For in Dollars<\/h2>\r\n<p>Here the Cold War enters the hangar. According to Dassault&rsquo;s own history, a US Air Force delegation including Chuck Yeager evaluated French combat aircraft in December 1952. In April 1953 came the decisive order: more than 220 Myst\u00e8re IVs for the French Air Force, bought by the United States under its Offshore Procurement programme. Dassault&rsquo;s history describes the batch simply as a gift to the French Air Force.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was a very European arrangement of the 1950s: American money, a French airframe, a British-designed engine built under licence. Production ran from 1954 to 1958, and the type reached the 12th Fighter Wing at Cambrai in May 1955. Accounts of the total differ slightly, with 411 in Dassault&rsquo;s count and 421 in other references, of which roughly 240 went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/french-air-and-space-force\/\">French Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The new jet was soon at war. In 1956 French Myst\u00e8re squadrons deployed to Israel during the Suez crisis, and the aircraft stayed in French service for decades, finishing its career as a training mount. Its successor in the Dassault family, the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/super-mystere\/\">Super Myst\u00e8re<\/a>, would follow it into French service.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Golden Age of the Patrouille de France<\/h2>\r\n<p>For many French enthusiasts the Myst\u00e8re IV means one thing: the aerobatic team. Dassault notes that the first aerobatic team on the type was trained at Cambrai, and twelve Myst\u00e8res flew over the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es for Bastille Day on 14 July 1955.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/dassault-mystere-iv-patrouille-de-france-bitburg-1960s.jpg\" alt=\"Two Patrouille de France Dassault Myst\u00e8re IVA jets taxiing past spectators at Bitburg Air Base in the early 1960s\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Two Myst\u00e8re IVAs of the Patrouille de France at Bitburg Air Base, Germany, in the early 1960s, with the crowd only metres away. Photo: Cobatfor \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The Patrouille de France flew the Myst\u00e8re IVA from 1957 until the end of 1963, first with the 2nd Fighter Wing at Dijon and then with the 7th at Nancy. Budget cuts disbanded the team in January 1964, and it was reborn weeks later on the far gentler Fouga Magister.<\/p>\r\n<p>The team&rsquo;s Myst\u00e8re years still look astonishing on film: tight formations of swept-wing jets, close to the crowd, with none of the safety distances of a modern display.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLuOxXro7zE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">Archive footage of the Patrouille de France displaying its Myst\u00e8re IV jets in 1961.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Israel: First Swept Wings Over the Sinai<\/h2>\r\n<p>In the Middle East the Myst\u00e8re arrived just in time. The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/israeli-air-force\/\">Israeli Air Force<\/a> switched an order for Myst\u00e8re IIs to the Myst\u00e8re IV, and on 11 April 1956 the first four landed at Hazor, announcing themselves with a sonic boom. They reformed 101 Squadron, and 61 aircraft were eventually delivered. When fighting began on 29 October 1956, only about a third had arrived.<\/p>\r\n<p>On 30 October, Israeli Myst\u00e8res met <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-15-fagot\/\">MiG-15s<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/egyptian-air-force\/\">Egyptian Air Force<\/a> over the Mitla Pass and shot one down, the type&rsquo;s first kill. The next day a pair of Myst\u00e8res was credited with four Egyptian <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\">de Havilland Vampires<\/a>. Israel lost one Myst\u00e8re, to ground fire. The wider campaign is covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/suez-1956-operation-musketeer-air-war-sea-hawk-canberra\/\">our account of the Suez air war<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/dassault-mystere-iv-israeli-air-force-109-squadron.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli Air Force Dassault Myst\u00e8re IVA number 09 in desert camouflage at the Israeli Air Force Museum\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Myst\u00e8re IVA of 109 Squadron, which flew the type from Ramat David, preserved at the Israeli Air Force Museum near Hatzerim. Photo: brewbooks \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>By June 1967 the Myst\u00e8re had been pushed into ground attack by newer Super Myst\u00e8res and Mirages. Two squadrons, around 35 aircraft, flew it in the Six-Day War, striking Egyptian air bases in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/operation-focus-israel-six-day-war-1967\/\">Operation Focus<\/a> and then supporting troops on three fronts. Israeli accounts credit Myst\u00e8re pilots with three aircraft shot down, two <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-17-fresco\/\">MiG-17s<\/a> and a Jordanian <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hunter\/\">Hawker Hunter<\/a>, for the loss of seven or eight Myst\u00e8res depending on the source. The type left Israeli service in the early 1970s.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">India: Low and Fast to Sargodha<\/h2>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/indian-air-force\/\">Indian Air Force<\/a> took about 110 Myst\u00e8re IVAs from 1957 and used them as fighter-bombers. Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar, who joined No. 1 &ldquo;Tigers&rdquo; Squadron at Adampur in 1964, remembered his first taste of the jet&rsquo;s speed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Mystere IVA could exceed the speed of sound in a dive and on 12 Oct 64 I broke the sound barrier 17 years after Chuck Yeager had done so for the first time ever over the skies of California in his experimental rocket powered aircraft, the Bell X-1. It was a huge thrill!&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar (Retd)<\/strong> &mdash; No. 1 Squadron, Indian Air Force, writing for Bharat Rakshak<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>In the 1965 war the Myst\u00e8res, often with <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/folland-gnat\/\">Folland Gnats<\/a> covering them, flew close support against armour and artillery. On 7 September No. 1 Squadron raided Sargodha, the most important base of the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/pakistan-air-force\/\">Pakistan Air Force<\/a>. India claimed six aircraft destroyed on the ground; Pakistan admitted losing a single <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-86-sabre\/\">F-86 Sabre<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>When the dawn strike missed its target, Rajkumar flew in the four-ship daylight attack that followed, racing home at what he estimated was no more than 50 feet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;While waiting to go to our aircraft, I had butterflies in my stomach because I was only 24 years old and did not want to die! Once in the cockpit all fear vanished because one became busy running through a host of checks and procedures, which required the utmost concentration.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar (Retd)<\/strong> &mdash; recalling the Sargodha raid of 7 September 1965, Bharat Rakshak<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>That morning Squadron Leader A. B. Devayya did not return. He was shot down by an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-104-starfighter\/\">F-104 Starfighter<\/a> flown by Flight Lieutenant Amjad Hussain, and the Starfighter crashed too; its pilot ejected. In 1980 Pakistan acknowledged losing an F-104 in combat with a Myst\u00e8re that day, and in 1988 Devayya received a posthumous Maha Vir Chakra. In 1971 Nos. 3 and 31 Squadrons still flew the Myst\u00e8re on the western front, operating from Sirsa.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Bridge to the Mirage<\/h2>\r\n<p>The Myst\u00e8re IV never became a dogfighting legend, and its record is better told in sorties than in kills. Its real importance was industrial. It taught Dassault to build a swept-wing fighter in numbers, to sell it abroad and to support it in war, the lessons that made the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\">Mirage III<\/a> possible a few years later.<\/p>\r\n<p>It also cost Dassault dearly. Kostia Rozanoff, who had flown the first Ouragan and the first Myst\u00e8re IV, was killed in 1954 during a low-level pass in a Myst\u00e8re IV B, the afterburning development that gave way to the Super Myst\u00e8re.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wLM32ZfNZQM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic\">French aviation magazine Aerobuzz retraces the Myst\u00e8re IV and its place in the French Air Force (in French).<\/p>\r\n<p>Today Myst\u00e8re IVAs survive in museums from Le Bourget to Tucson, several of them in Britain. Look closely at one and you see the whole French post-war story in a single airframe: an Ouragan&rsquo;s bones, a British engine, American money, and the swept wing that carried France into the jet age.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Dassault Aviation (Myst\u00e8re IV, Myst\u00e8re II, Ouragan and Kostia Rozanoff histories), This Day in Aviation, Jewish Virtual Library (IAF aircraft inventory), Bharat Rakshak (Philip Rajkumar, &ldquo;Tigers Over Sargodha&rdquo;; Sirsa&rsquo;s War), Aeromorning, flugzeuginfo.net, Wikipedia (Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV, Dassault Myst\u00e8re, Dassault Ouragan, Patrouille de France)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>When did the Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV first fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV prototype first flew on 28 September 1952 from Melun-Villaroche, near Paris, with Dassault chief test pilot Kostia Rozanoff at the controls. The flight lasted 25 minutes and the jet reached Mach 0.92 in level flight, more than expected. It later exceeded the speed of sound in a dive.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many Dassault Myst\u00e8re IVs were built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Sources give between 411 and 421 production Myst\u00e8re IVA fighters, built from 1954 to 1958. Roughly 240 went to the French Air Force, most of them paid for by the United States under its Offshore Procurement programme. Israel received 61 and India about 110.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which air forces flew the Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Three air forces flew the Dassault Myst\u00e8re IV: the French Air Force, the Israeli Air Force and the Indian Air Force. Israel used it in the 1956 Suez campaign and the 1967 Six-Day War, while India flew it as a fighter-bomber in the India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How was the Myst\u00e8re IV related to the Dassault Ouragan?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Myst\u00e8re family grew out of the straight-winged Dassault Ouragan, first flown in 1949. The Myst\u00e8re II combined the Ouragan fuselage with a thinner wing swept at 30 degrees. The Myst\u00e8re IV looked similar but was a largely new design, with a wing swept to 38 degrees and a thinner profile.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the Patrouille de France fly the Myst\u00e8re IV?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The Patrouille de France flew the Dassault Myst\u00e8re IVA from 1957 until the end of 1963, with the 2nd Fighter Wing at Dijon and then the 7th at Nancy. Budget cuts disbanded the team in January 1964, and it was re-formed weeks later on the Fouga Magister.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Myst\u00e8re IV's combat record?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Israeli Myst\u00e8re IVs scored the type's first kill, a MiG-15, on 30 October 1956 and were credited with four Vampires the next day. In 1967 Israeli accounts credit them with three kills. Indian Myst\u00e8res flew mostly ground attack, including the Sargodha raid of 7 September 1965, where Squadron Leader A. B. Devayya was lost.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can I fly in a MiG-15?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The MiG-15, the Soviet-designed fighter that Israeli Myst\u00e8re pilots met over the Sinai in 1956, is available to civilians through MiGFlug. Flights take place near Prague in Czechia, listed from 3,250 euros. 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