Iraq wanted 133 mirage F1 but only 113 were delivered. The 20 last were F1EQ-7 they were not delivered because of course of the first gulf war. Apparently they can fire AS-30L but also russians Kh-29 air to groud missiles…

poor minister Beregovoy was bashing very hard by medias because of corruption and as a result commit suicide on 1st may 1993…

Yes the R-530 was a dip****. Therange was not bad, around 18km but kill rate was disastrous… apparently one day a french Mirage F1 fire a R-530, and the missile made a loop around the fighter! The Super-530 was very different in all aspect, and much better. It entered service in french air force around 1978.

apparently there’s a lot of differents “fly-by-wire” !!
– to correct unstability on one of the three axis of a plane (yaw, pitch or roll)
(YF-107)
– to make secondary tasks (example : moving the airs intakes according to speed as in the XB-70 , SR-71, Vigilante, Tomcat etc.)
– to control unstable “aircrafts” such as X-15 or Dyna soar (Stability Augmentation Systems)
Even complicated : apparently there was Analog and Digital fly-by-wire!!

That’s not easy to understand what “Fly-by-wire” means…

Concerning the lack of power of the F1 that’s true : the Atar 9K-50 only had 7200 kg of thrust. There was a prototype with the M53 (8500 kg of thrust) the F1E. It’s was the main competitor of the F-16 for the european market in 1975 but lose and was abandonned. Never understand why Dassault didn’t put the M53 in the iraqis F1EQ. In fact Iraq stated to buy F1s in 1977 but they had the Atar 9K-50…
Apparently F1EQ shot more than a dozen of Iranians Phantoms; their missiles were nearly equivalents (Magic I and II = AIM-9 B /P , Super-530F = Sparrow)

The genesis of the Mirage IV is a very,very complicated story…
It’s because the very first Mirage III had a different engine (Atar-101, 4500 kg of thrust) so It was the Mirage III-01.
The Mirage III-01 flew in 1956, 17 november.
Well, in 1956, the name of the (future) Mirage III-A (with Atar-9) was…
Mirage-IV-C!!!
The definitive Mirage III with the Atar-9 (6000 kg of thrust) was the Mirage III-A and flew in May 1958.
One of the Mirage IV project (the lighest) became the Mirage IIIA, C , B etc.

In fact the Mirage IV at the beginning was a heavier and more powerful version of Mirage III-01.
When I say “more powerful” it means at the beginning, with Atar-9 (6000 kg of thrust). Then, with super Atar (9000 to 12 000 kg of thrust)and at the end, twin engines (two Atar 9)
The Mirage IV quickly evolved to a two engines airplane, the Mirage IVC. But it was not a bomber; it was some kind of heavy fighter like the phantom(imagine a delta wing phantom…).
French air force like the concept, but it was too expansive, and the light, single engine Mirage III was chosen instead in 1958.
So the Mirage IVC project evolved to the well known light bomber Mirage IVA. The prototype of Mirage IV-A flew on june 1959, powered by two Atar-9 6000 kg of thrust.
But as a bomber, it’s 2500 km were insufficient to strike USSR. So a Mirage IVB project was launched. That’s what you heard about : it had two J-75 engines (13000 kg of thrust each) weighed 57 tons and had 5000 km range.
It was never build : De Gaulle didn’t wanted that french nuclear deterent strategy relies on american engines.
So he choose the Mirage IV-A; the problem of range was solved by 12 C-135FR baught in 1964…