Might as well be the first: for Jan's The Last War alternate history: a PLAAF Mirage F-1. The backstory is that after the Soviet hard-liners took over from Gorbachev (and the walls never came down in Eastern Europe), the West decides, reluctantly, to put Tianamen in the past and resume assistance to the PRC in modernizing its military. France is the first with selling Mirages....
A second one in this area would be a PLAAF AH-1T (the U.S. gets in on it eventually).
Hello
Here is a profile of a PLAAF Mirage F-1
Wow how cool is this!!!
You know, in the late 70's and early 80's the PRC did seriously look at purchasing (and I dare say licence manufacture) Western fighters (the Hawker Siddeley Harrier being one of them! Does anyone know of any other designs??) to update it's obsolete capability. You're PLAAF Mirage F1, would probably have been one of the most cost-effective and capable designs available to the PRC at the time
JPVieira !! After all I'm more than confident the French would have happily have sold and or allow license production to the PRC!
P.S. What about the PRC aerospace industry, combining its uncanny ability to reverse engineer the variable-geometry wings and mechanism of the MiG-23
Flogger it obtained from a disgruntled Egypt, with that of the "licenced" built fuselage of the Dassault Mirage F1 and its SNECMA M53 turbojet or that of the Rolls Royce Spey turbofan it acquired from Britain? Hint hint
M.A.D
