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🇫🇷 Mirage 2000
Air · Dassault Aviation (Fransa) · 1984
France's single-engine delta-wing 4th-gen multirole fighter; agile, mature and cheap to operate, flown for 40 years by dozens of nations as Rafale's economical little brother.
Specifications
- Type: Single-engine delta-wing 4th-gen multirole fighter
- Maker / origin: Dassault Aviation — France
- Crew: 1 (single seat) / 2 (trainer and 2000D/N variants)
- Engine: SNECMA M53-P2 turbofan; ~65 kN dry, ~95 kN with afterburner
- Speed: Mach 2+ (~2,300 km/h, high altitude)
- Weapons / load: 2× 30 mm DEFA 554 (125 rds); MICA, Magic-2, Super 530D; ~6.3 t external, 9 hardpoints
- Radar / sensor: RDM / RDI / RDY (RDY-2 pulse-Doppler on late variants)
- Variants: 2000C (fighter), 2000B (trainer), 2000N (nuclear strike), 2000D (conv. strike), 2000-5/-9 (glass cockpit, MICA)
- Built / first flight: 601 built; first flight 10 Mar 1978, service July 1984
Beats: MiG-29 (Rusya) — fly-by-wire delta-kanat çevikliği, daha üstün menzil ve radar/aviyonik olgunluğu; MiG-29'un kısa menzili ve eski sistemlerine karşı avantajlı, JF-17 Block I/II (Pakistan/Çin) — daha köklü Batı aviyoniği, MICA BVR füzesi ve kanıtlanmış muharebe geçmişiyle önde, Saab Gripen C (İsveç) — daha ağır harici yük kapasitesi (~6,3 t) ve nükleer-kapasiteli vuruş varyantı (2000N) ile esneklikte üstün
Loses to: Dassault Rafale (Fransa) — çift-motor, AESA radar (RBE2), SPECTRA EW ve çok daha geniş silah yelpazesiyle her eksende üstün; Mirage onun ekonomik öncülü, F-16 Block 70/72 Viper (ABD) — AESA radar, daha modern aviyonik ve geniş tedarik/destek ağıyla önde, Eurofighter Typhoon (Avrupa konsorsiyumu) — çift-motorlu güç, üstün BVR ve hava-hakimiyeti performansıyla daha üst sınıfta
The Mirage 2000 was the backbone of French multirole doctrine before the Rafale; though it faces a generation gap against modern AESA-equipped F-16 Block 70 and J-10C today, its low cost and mature logistics make it one of the rare 4th-gen platforms carried into the 2030s. France extends its life to 2035 with the 2000DRMV upgrade, India to 2038-2039 with the 2000-5 standard.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Dassault Aviation (Fransa)): Rafale M
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
