Design and Development
Four designs were submitted, the Mirage IIIV design, the Fokker-Republic D.24 Alliance, the BAC 584 and the Hawker P.1154, to NATO in January 1962 in competition for the AC/169 specification for a supersonic V/STOL strike fighter to meet NATO Basic Military Requirement 3. In May that year the resulting judgement that the P.1154 was the technically superior, but when considering as well the financing and work-sharing opportunities the Mirage IIIV was judged its equal in merit. NATO was not in the position to fund the full development of either winner leaving it up to the individual member countries.
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