BAC/Dassault AFVG

The BAC/Dassault AFVG, short for Anglo-French Variable Geometry, was a 1960s project for a supersonic multi-role combat aircraft with a variable-sweep wing, developed jointly by the British Aircraft Corporation in the United Kingdom and Dassault Aviation in France. The two governments agreed it on 17 May 1965, after the cancellation of the BAC TSR-2, as one of two joint projects; the other became the SEPECAT Jaguar. The specification called for Mach 2.5 at altitude and two SNECMA/Bristol Siddeley M45G turbofans. Neither Dassault nor the French Air Force was keen, and British requirements kept shifting; the French government withdrew and the project was cancelled in June 1967. BAC reworked the design as the UKVG, which led to the Anglo-German-Italian Panavia Tornado.