The Dassault Mirage G8-01 and G8-02 prototypes in flight. The G8-01's wings are swept.
Role
Swing-wing multirole fighter
Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Dassault Aviation
First flight
18 November 1967
Retired
1970s by France
Status
Cancelled in the 1970s
Primary user
French Air Force
Number built
3
Developed from
Dassault Mirage F2
The Dassault Mirage G, also known as the Mirage IIIG,[1] was a variant of the French Dassault Mirage series of supersonic warplanes, but with a variable-sweep wing. Three prototypes were flown; one single-engined G and two twin-engined G8 examples (which had begun construction as the G4). Various roles, equipment fits and other variants were proposed, but none entered production.[2][1]
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