Dassault developed the Mirage F1 under its own initiative. The larger Mirage F2 was also planned, but that program was canceled in the late 1960s, freeing up Dassault to invest more readily in the F1.

One of Ukraine's Mirage 2000s. The first handful of ex-French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters have arrived in Ukraine. As widely expected, French contractors reportedly modified the supersonic ...