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French trying to beat the F-4 Phantom with just 1 engine in the 1960s?
1st thing - we need an actual engine, since the Atars as-is will not cut it. Making the spin-off from the Atars might do the trick, though, something like the Bristol turning the Orpheus into Pegasus with some parts of Olympus (a very condensed history by your's truly). A ~4500lb engine at 4.5:1 t/w ratio = 20250 lb of thrust, or about 50% better than what the Atar 9C gave in the Mirage F1. The resulting aircraft might be about size and weight of a MiG-23; I'd prefer it's a fixed wing design.
A 2-seater, 4 SARH missiles as an initial loadout, as good a radar and other electronics as the industry can make. Later have it carry bombs & other ground-attack weaponry.
Offer also the dedicated ground attack version, as the Dassault was doing historically anyway. Can be a single-seater.
1st thing - we need an actual engine, since the Atars as-is will not cut it. Making the spin-off from the Atars might do the trick, though, something like the Bristol turning the Orpheus into Pegasus with some parts of Olympus (a very condensed history by your's truly). A ~4500lb engine at 4.5:1 t/w ratio = 20250 lb of thrust, or about 50% better than what the Atar 9C gave in the Mirage F1. The resulting aircraft might be about size and weight of a MiG-23; I'd prefer it's a fixed wing design.
A 2-seater, 4 SARH missiles as an initial loadout, as good a radar and other electronics as the industry can make. Later have it carry bombs & other ground-attack weaponry.
Offer also the dedicated ground attack version, as the Dassault was doing historically anyway. Can be a single-seater.