Memories of the Alpha Jet concept? Why not, if you could get NATO Air forces to agree on a common type and capability.
What Europe must avoid is the kind of wasteful competition that has the
Hawker Siddeley Hawk and Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet battling against each other in the world market.
— John W. R. Taylor, Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1975–1976
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