The Mirage 2000’s debut flight in 1978 took place just 27 months after the program was given a green light. Piloting the first flight was Jean Coureau, who took the jet to Mach 1.02 without ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has disclosed plans to transfer Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Ukraine. This follows the recent and unexpected announcement that the Ukrainian Air Force will be getting ...

Chief among the Mirage series is the Mirage 2000 that was introduced in the late 1970s and it still sees service to this day in the French Air and Space Force. The Mirage 2000 has proven itself in ...

France has deployed around 15 of its refurbished Mirage 2000D RMV multirole aircraft and 150 airmen to conduct a firing ...

Less than a year after the transfer was announced, the French Defense Minister announced the delivery of the first Mirage 2000 aircraft to Ukraine, flown by Ukrainian pilots. The French Defense ...

Macron told Le Figaro that the Mirage 2000-5 jets are optimized for air-to-air combat. Ukraine will receive these rather than the older Mirage 2000Cs or air-to-ground Mirage 2000D attack jets.

The Mirage 2000 is by far one of the most iconic and high-performance fighter jets in the French Air and Space Force Designed by Dassault Aviation and introduced in 1979, the Mirage 2000 was ...

A Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet takes off from an air base in France on March 13, 2022. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — Ukraine received the first Mirage 2000 fighter jets promised ...

Macron has announced plans to supply Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Ukraine and facilitate the training of Ukrainian fighter pilots in France. An unspecified number of Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters ...

The first French Mirage 2000-5s fighter jets pledged to Kyiv have arrived in Ukraine, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Feb. 6. "On June 6, 2024, (French President) Emmanuel Macron ...