Dassault Mirage F1

[lucklucky]

3 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

I always compare it to the Jaguar, which considering it does much the same thing with half as many engines (and with a radar guided missile), to me looks remarkably good value.

 

Mirage F1 is a multirole aircraft with significant fighter capability for the time with radar controlled missiles. That was never the purview of Jaguar.

It indeed seems a good airplane that did not have a big success due to the F-16 American Miracle.

Edited June 22, 2023 by lucklucky

[Yama]

11 hours ago, TrustMe said:

As i understand it, the Atar 9K-50 engine like in the Moroccan F1's is hard to maintain due to the age of the components as not many F1's are still around and SNECMA doesn't want to build replacement parts. Only roughly 50% of Moroccan F1's are avaliable at any one time. It sad to say it but in a another 5 years no f1's will be flying anymore around the world.

At least two adversary air companies have large F1 fleets, and plenty of Atars still out there in other Mirages and SuE's...although I suppose at some point the engine support must reach end of its tether.