Dassault Mirage III Australian procurement was a transaction between the French and Australian governments which led to the procurement of the French designed delta 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. 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.[1]
The deal made Australia the second export customer for the Mirage III after Israel.
- ^ Bellany, Ian; Richardson, James (1965–1991). Australian Defence Procurement No. 8. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence (PDF). ANU Press.