I'm not going to make myself very popular saying this but I never could see the attraction with the F2/F2A/F3. The notion that you design a fighter with one one type of aerial opponent in mind just doesn't make sense to me, surely you build them to fight with, and beat, any opponent. I remember talking with an F3 pilot and he remarked that they never wanted to see an Su-27 - ever. Hardly inspiring.
As an aside Bill Gunston remarked that Panavia were actively seeking design proposals around the same time for a lightweight fighter flying with a single fully developed RB.199. I always wondered how that could have turned out.