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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).
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 ...
Notably, it became the first unit of the French Air Force to deploy an indigenous Mach-2 fighter, the new Mirage IIIC, on 7 July 1961. [6] In 1968 these were replaced by Mirage IIIEs. In 1984, the "Storks" transitioned to the Dassault Mirage 2000C. On September 9, 1994, EC 1/2 received a third flight: the SPA 12.
Dassault Mirage 2000: France Conversion trainer: 6 [3] Pilatus PC-21: Switzerland: Advanced trainer: 26 [3] Embraer EMB 121 Xingu: Brazil: Trainer 17 [3] Beechcraft Super King Air 350: United States Trainer 1 [3] Grob 120A-F: Germany: Basic trainer 18 [3] Cirrus SR20: United States Basic trainer 16 [3] Cirrus SR22: United States Basic trainer 9 ...
Ukraine said on Thursday it had received a first batch of French Mirage 2000 fighter jets as well as U.S.-made F-16 fighters from the Netherlands as European allies seek to strengthen Kyiv's hand ...
France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron told French TV stations on Thursday. Macron said that on Friday, on the occasion of Ukrainian President ...
For this, it is equipped with 17 two-seat Mirage 2000B aircraft. The first French female fighter pilot, Caroline Aigle, served with the squadron in 2000. On 11 June 2010, EC 2/5 Ile-de-France and EC 1/12 Cambrai were deployed to Chad to replace the last remaining Dassault Mirage F1 aircraft of the French Air Force on the African continent.
The Dassault Mirage 2000N is a variant of the Mirage 2000 designed for nuclear strike. It formed the core of the French air-based strategic nuclear deterrent. The Mirage 2000D is its conventional attack counterpart. Although it looks like a Mirage 2000 trainer, it was actually used as a fighter-attack aircraft.