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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pathology_doc" data-source="post: 234409" data-attributes="member: 1686"><blockquote data-quote="F-14D">...a whole family of modern Mirages which might be cheaper to buy and operate than a vastly updated Phantom.  ...Similarly, Israel built and flew a prototype of their Super Phantom 2000 using the PW1120 but abandoned it because of the cost, a withdrawal of support by MDD and the fact that they could buy F15s and -16s which gave them more bang for the buck.</blockquote>Seems like they tried to do with the Phantom what they'd done turning the Mirage into the Kfir, but found it was a different kettle of fish given the factors you'd mentioned. I always wondered what happened to the Super Phantom.</blockquote>

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