Can't be worse than French protectionism with Dassault, really. TBFH, the Stehlin / Puget / Sud Aviation proposal has few chance in hell from succeeding in the first place.
Although their main chance is that N-156 and its development fits ECAT like a glove.
I mostly agree - I essentially piled up a whole bunch of proposal, throwing them at a wall to see what stuck.
I would say that a twin Adour N-156 / SA-X-125 is the closest from OTL Jaguar, so forget all the other ones.
Massive sales and production from the US side. A whole bunch of T-38s (800 ?) plus all the export F-5A/B by 1964. Should drastically lower the unit price.
The Netherlands bought F-5As in the late 60's, so did Spain and countless other countries. Northrop build more than 2000 N-156s of every kind.
The F-5 is also a much better air defense fighter than Jaguar, also it probably suffers in the strike role. J85s however are old turbojets; Adours should be more economical, being more recent turbofans.
Note that in '73 the Thunderbirds went with T-38s to save fuel compared to the Phantoms they had before. T-38s are rather unexpensive to fly, just ask NASA.
I don't understand what you mean here.
P.1173 ? Harriers ?
Can't be worse than De Gaulle on a ordinary day, NATO stance included.
