well when I said “the 60’s” that was not the most important thing. All I wanted was to launch a hot topic (I had red in some thread that someone wanted a topic over those four superbs fighters…)
For the Mirage F-1 it had some 45 kills with the IrAF (most of them Phantoms and Tiger II, he was no match for the Tomcats, and 45 were lost) 3 with Ecuador (2* Su-22 and an A-37) 4 with south africa (Mig 21 and Mig 23…). Kuwaiti F1s also killed a dozen of Iraqis helicopters in August 1990 (does kill helicopters it count ? :p )
Source ****.org, Mirages F-1 in combats.

Tinwing I’m very interested about super Atar. I heard about it but I have very few datas… apparently it started in 1957 : I found it on
– very first drawings of Concorde (super Caravelle) Sud aviation 1958
– Griffon III (mach 3 delta wing turboramjet Nord Aviation 1958)
– Mirage IVC (at the beginning, the Mirage IV was a single-engine fighter with a super Atar 1957)

TF-30 and France
The trouble with french aircraft industry I agree were the motors. As I said there was only one manufacturer, SNECMA, and one engine, the Atar. So, in 1959, SNECMA gave 10.9% of it’s shares to Pratt&Whitney. In exchange: all the turbojets under license, from the J-58 to the J-85. In 1963, USA and France needed a military ,
10 000 kg thrust turbofan with reheat. (USA for the F-111, France for the VTOL Mirage III-V )
So SNECMA and Pratt&Whitney started with the TF-104 (5800 kg of thrust). Then, the TF-106 (6800 kg) TF-306 (9300 kg)
First, a Mirage III (III T, T for turbofan) was used as a testbed.
Then, two Mirage III-V (VTOL)
And two airplanes nearly identical, the G and F2. The first with swept wing (55°) and the second with “swing wings”.
In 1968 the program was abandoned. The M-53 beneficied much of the experience with the TF-30 program, but also the Olympus of concorde…. The M53 was first teted in february 1970, then on an Caravelle airliner in july 1972 and finally on the F1E on december 1973.