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If all-weather interception wasn't on the menu, they probably got the best aircraft. This depends on a relative-merits assessment, of course, and fans of various options have various ways of putting their 'baby' up to the top of the list, but if I wasn't after a full all-weather intercept package, money wasn't an object, and I was offered the A-4 vs. the Mirage 5? I'd be picking the Mirage myself. Then there's that whole "Neutral Sweden" bit, and whether they'd be happy to support their product in a shooting war they weren't part of, though I'd imagine Denmark and Austria both found ways around that problem (and I suspect it'd be difficult to see Sweden NOT become involved in an all-out Soviet Bloc assault on Western Europe, if only from the viewpoint of nailing Soviet a/c taking shortcuts over their territory).

[QUOTE="pathology_doc, post: 137112, member: 1686"] If all-weather interception wasn't on the menu, they [i]probably[/i] got the best aircraft. This depends on a relative-merits assessment, of course, and fans of various options have various ways of putting their 'baby' up to the top of the list, but if I wasn't after a full all-weather intercept package, money wasn't an object, and I was offered the A-4 vs. the Mirage 5? I'd be picking the Mirage myself. Then there's that whole "Neutral Sweden" bit, and whether they'd be happy to support their product in a shooting war they weren't part of, though I'd imagine Denmark and Austria both found ways around that problem (and I suspect it'd be difficult to see Sweden NOT become involved in an all-out Soviet Bloc assault on Western Europe, if only from the viewpoint of nailing Soviet a/c taking shortcuts over their territory). [/QUOTE]

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