Here is fascinate french Video about development of Mirage III (follow link)
With a Surprise for me: the Real Reason why German Luftwaffe not got the Mirage III
Most the story you hear is dat Marcel Dassault refused to sell to Germany because of his experience during Second world war in Nazi concentration camps.
In this video his son Serge tell another story (at 32:25 in video in french):
The german Luftwaffe had send a Test pilot to France, to fly Mirage prototype,
Dassault make the mistake to let him fly the the smaller subsonic version, instead to wait until the Mirage III was ready, he could not handle the airplane right and had other problem to fly it.
after this experience, the Test pilot write a extrem negative report about Mirage, not recommending it for Luftwaffe.
3 months later the supersonic Mirage III prototype take off and on desk of German Minster of Defense Franz Joseph Strauss lands this Report...
That explain why the Luftwaffe take F-104, another detail by Serge Dassault, had the German Government taken the Mirage III Dassault would have seek cooperation with German Aerospace industry
maybe so Serge Dassault would the aircraft manufacturing be today a French German company (at 35:00 in Video)
So what if Dassault refused the request by german Test Pilot and let him wait until Mirage III is ready ?
With a Surprise for me: the Real Reason why German Luftwaffe not got the Mirage III
Most the story you hear is dat Marcel Dassault refused to sell to Germany because of his experience during Second world war in Nazi concentration camps.
In this video his son Serge tell another story (at 32:25 in video in french):
The german Luftwaffe had send a Test pilot to France, to fly Mirage prototype,
Dassault make the mistake to let him fly the the smaller subsonic version, instead to wait until the Mirage III was ready, he could not handle the airplane right and had other problem to fly it.
after this experience, the Test pilot write a extrem negative report about Mirage, not recommending it for Luftwaffe.
3 months later the supersonic Mirage III prototype take off and on desk of German Minster of Defense Franz Joseph Strauss lands this Report...
That explain why the Luftwaffe take F-104, another detail by Serge Dassault, had the German Government taken the Mirage III Dassault would have seek cooperation with German Aerospace industry
maybe so Serge Dassault would the aircraft manufacturing be today a French German company (at 35:00 in Video)
So what if Dassault refused the request by german Test Pilot and let him wait until Mirage III is ready ?