What-if Dassault engineers, angry for having been copied illegally, decided to copy back the Kfir C2? (its good canard foreplanes, while without US engine): 

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Mirage8_dv.jpg

A long time ago, there was a fighter sale in Western Europe that the US Starfighter won while the Mirage III/5 lost, then Dassault engineers took inspiration from the winner: 

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Mirage8_dy.jpg

Updated & upgraded Kfir with leading edge extensions & larger canards + an f-16 bubble canopy with armor

Today I have read on the Mirage IV page of French Wikipedia that the Mirage IV wind-screen had a V-shape, unusual, because no use of Head-Up Display. I had never noticed this, true! I immediately adapted it on a Mirage 5:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Mirage8_dz.jpg

Oh yes, and very good the IV windscreen looks too.

Actually the whole aeroplane does, the BEST looking Mirage ever to my mind. 

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Reminds me of a Heller 1:72 kit that I want to build/convert some day... 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 02, 2023, 10:43:56 PMthe IV
Actually the whole aeroplane does, the BEST looking Mirage ever to my mind. 

According to me, the Mirage IV 001 was very beautiful, but the mass produced Mirage IVs are not beautiful at all.
I will try to find a profile comparison to explain my point of view, or even improve further the beauty (whifly), I hope...

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on February 02, 2023, 11:08:40 PMReminds me of a Heller 1:72 kit that I want to build/convert some day... 

I did one some years ago, with a scratched  ASMP missile underneath.

3 months later Heller produced the Mirage 2000N  with the same missile in the kit....... 

I've got another IV in The Loft too, I reckon it looks like every schoolkid's idea of a supersonic bomber. 

Mine will receive a totally different front end, with a large radar nose, and become a heavy interceptor - maybe in USAF colors as one of the Century series fighters. 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 03, 2023, 01:39:03 AMI've got another IV in The Loft too, I reckon it looks like every schoolkid's idea of a supersonic bomber. 

That and the B-58 

Something else: small canards on Mirage 5

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Mirage8_eb.jpg

This is currently the wallpaper on my laptop.  Beautiful aircraft.

That's the prototype, isn't it? 

No idea.  It's just a beautiful picture I found on the interweb.  I think that says Mirage IV 01 on the nose though.

Yes the code 01 is for the beautiful prototype.
The ugly later ones were A to P if I remember correctly.