The Mirage 4000 was Dassault's twin-engine, heavy-fighter counterpart to the Mirage 2000. Built largely as an industrial private venture, it paired a familiar delta-wing layout with larger size, canards, and two SNECMA M53 engines to pursue long-range interception and strike potential.
Compared with the single-engine Mirage 2000, the 4000 offered more fuel volume, greater thrust, and a heavier stores load. That made it a credible export-oriented alternative to large twin-engine fighters, but also made it more expensive and dependent on a customer willing to fund a production line.
The prototype first flew in 1979 and never entered series production after prospective export campaigns failed. Its value is still visible in French fighter development history: the program tested aerodynamic and systems ideas that helped bridge late Mirage concepts and later advanced Dassault combat aircraft work.
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