Dassault Mirage III Australian procurement
Dassault Mirage III Australian procurement was a transaction between the French and Australian governments which led to the procurement of the French designed fixed wing jet aircraft, the Mirage III, for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). In the late 1950s the Australian government announced its intention to modernize its air force with state of the art technology and the French manufacturing company Dassault won the bid over the American Lockheed when the Australian government agreed to buy over 100 Mirages at an estimated cost of AUS$193.7 million in the early 1960s.
Q234371
Mirage III
MISC
Q823635
Royal Australian Air Force
ORG
Q1434948
Dassault
MEDIA
Q7240
Lockheed
ORG
Q104844318
Dassault Mirage III Australian procurement
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1950-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1950
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1960-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1960
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193.7
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item operated