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The Dassault Rafale (French pronunciation:, literally meaning "gust of wind", [3] or "burst of fire" in a more military sense) [4] is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation.
The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine, delta wing, fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Armée de l'air). The Mirage 2000 evolved into a multirole aircraft with several variants ...
The Mirage 4000 was comparable in size to the United States F-15 Eagle, and was designed to be both a long-range interceptor and a fighter-bomber. In the early 1980s, Dassault ended the program shortly after the Royal Saudi Air Force ordered a large number of Panavia Tornado aircraft.
Ukraine’s air force got a boost in its fight against Russia on Thursday with the arrival of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets from France, along with F-16s from the Netherlands. French Defense Minister ...
The Mirage 2000 is a multi-role, single-engine jet fighter. Zelenskiy said in September he had struck an agreement on training Ukraine pilots in France in conversation with Macron.
The Mirage F1 emerged from a series of design studies performed by French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. [2] Having originally sought to develop a larger swept wing derivative of the Mirage III, which became the Mirage F2, to serve as a vertical take-off and landing propulsion testbed akin to the Dassault Mirage IIIV, however, it was soon recognized that the emerging design could ...
The Mirage 2000N was designed to French requirements for an aircraft to replace the older Mirage IVP. Dassault received a contract to build two prototypes. The aircraft first flew on 3 February 1986. Seventy four were built up to 1993. [citation needed] The Mirage 2000N is based on the Mirage 2000B two-seat trainer, but features considerable ...
The Mirage 5 grew out of a request to Dassault from the Israeli Air Force.Since the weather over the Middle East is clear and sunny most of the time, the Israelis suggested removing the air intercept radar and its avionics, normally located behind the cockpit, from the standard Mirage IIIE to reduce cost and maintenance, and replacing them with more fuel storage for attack missions.