Word: f1
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French aircraft exports, worth $900 million, and earned profits of $35 million. As of the first of the year, it had turned out 1,312 Mirage III and Mirage 5 jet fighters (of which two-thirds were exported). Its export sales of warplanes, including the Mirage F1, the Alpha Jet and the Jaguar (built jointly with the British Aircraft Corp.), are unsurpassed by any other European military-aircraft maker...
...aircraft executives and diplomats. The party's host, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, had every reason to splurge. After more than a year of knee-and-gouge competition, Belgium had decided to buy the company's F-16 fighter-interceptor instead of the French Dassault Mirage F1-M53 as a replacement for aging U.S. F-104 Starfighters. That clinched what everyone was calling "the arms deal of the century...
...choice had seemed likely since January, when the U.S. Air Force ordered 650 F-16s for its own fleet. The fighter handles better than its chief competitors, the Swedish Viggen, built by Saab-Scania, and the Mirage F1-M53, built by the French firm Dassault-Breguet. The F-16 also appealed to the consortium because of the savings that would result from standardizing planes of U.S. and NATO forces...
Abroad, the Air Force order appears to put the YF-16 well in the lead in a three-way race with the Northrop plane and France's Dassault Mirage F1-M53 for the consortium's business. Because they believe in the reliability of a twin-engine plane, the Dutch, the Danes and the Norwegians were leaning toward Northrop's YF-17. But they have said that if they buy an American fighter, they would probably choose the same one as the U.S. Air Force. Reason: unit costs would be lower. They are expected to announce a decision...