RAAF Mirages in Vietnam.

Would Australia not just get rid of the Mirages for nice new US built toys ? F4s ?
I can't see the USA willing to let Australia suffer for supporting them in Vietnam.

Hmmm Mirage III or F4 Phantom??? Which is the better aircraft? No no leave me be...I got this..:D

Thing is though I would imagine that the F4 is the more expensive aircraft?

Didn't Sweden do the same thing regarding use of Charlie G 84s in vietnam?
 
The French were calculating in British pounds, assuming the Australian pound was the same, but they weren't for some reason. When the French found out the difference and recalculated the price in Aussie pounds it dropped considerably, and I suspect the economics of using the British engines changed with the same calculation.

The Franc was re-valued in 1960, maybe that was it.

IIRC £1 Sterling = £1 5s Australian or $2.50 Australian after decimilisation.

But who would have built the Avon engines? Rolls Royce or an Australian firm?

Could the Mirage airframe take the Medway or Spey?
 
You know I always wanted to know how the Mirage III would have handled with an Avon engine, where's Just Leo when you need him.
If the Air Ministry hadn't been such a bunch of blithering idiots we might have been able to know. They provided just about zero assistance with the development of Fairey's Fairey Delta II which was a potentially world-class aircraft that was pretty similar to the Mirage, form follows function after all. If the Ministry had given it even the minimum of backing to push it along a little further at a slightly faster pace then I think a more advanced programme would have made a potentially rather attractive proposition if the British government had approached the French one about a joint Anglo-French development. Locate the joint company in France, build the production line there, but design the aircraft so that it can be offered with a choice of French or British engines and/or radars.
 
Hmmm Mirage III or F4 Phantom??? Which is the better aircraft? No no leave me be...I got this..:D

Thing is though I would imagine that the F4 is the more expensive aircraft?

Didn't Sweden do the same thing regarding use of Charlie G 84s in vietnam?

The Mirage was ordered in 1960, winning against the F104G, the F4 was not considered in this competition as it wasn't in service in 1958-9. However the F4C was a contender in the competition that the F111 won, meeting a vastly different requirement a few years later.

Yes, the Gustavs were embargoed by Sweden.
 
IIRC £1 Sterling = £1 5s Australian or $2.50 Australian after decimilisation.

But who would have built the Avon engines? Rolls Royce or an Australian firm?

Could the Mirage airframe take the Medway or Spey?

The Mirage was built in Australia using Australian built components by CAC, the other aircraft maker CAC built the ATARs.

The Spey Mirage was the III-K, I think one was rigged up but I'm not sure.
 
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