Saturday 14 September 2013

Dassault Mirage 2000.

One of the best fighter jets owned by the IAF ( Indian Air Force ).

Dassault Mirage 2000 : The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a french design with multi role, single engine. The Dassault Mirage 2000 is the FOURTH GENERATION FIGHTER JET of the manufactured by the "Dassault Aviation." It was originally designed in the 1970's as a fighter based on Mirage III for the French Air Force.Around 600 aircrafts have been built till now and are in service for nine countries as of 2009 statistics.Cost of one Dassault Mirage 2000 is around 23 Million USD.Now that's some seriously high cost.




The Dassault Mirage 2000 is equipped with a twin  DEFA-554 30 mm revolver-cannons consisting of 125 rounds each.The cannons can be selected to fire 1,200 to 1,800 rounds/minute.The Dassault Mirage 2000 can carry a load of up to 6.3 tonnes. External stores can even include Matra Super 530 medium-range semi-activated radar-guided air-to-air missile on the pylons and the underbelly. It has even got a Matra Magic short-range infrared-seeking AAM. It's even got short-ranged missiles like AIM-9J/L/P.



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