Posted on 02/06/2025 5:15:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The first Mirage 2000 fighters promised to Ukraine by France’s President Macron arrived on Thursday along with their French-trained crews.
Ukraine has received more last-generation Western-made fighter jets today, although exactly how many was not revealed. France’s armed forces minister Sébastien Lecornu wrote on Thursday morning the first of the 1970s-heritage Mirage 2000s, a French domestically-produced analogue of the U.S.-made F-16, “arrived in Ukraine today” with “Ukrainian pilots on board who have been trained for several months in France”.
Now the French jets are in-country, they will “participate in defending the skies of Ukraine”, the minister added.
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They stink.
Everyone knows at the first sign of trouble the Mirage’s turn and head for home.
Has this version ever had any combat testing.
Hope their jets function better than their battleships...
Seems like the West is hell-bent on showing the rest of the world just how crappy our DEI-designed weapons are, at least compared to weapons designed by non-DEA countries.
So, circa fifty-year old air frames. Probably happy to see them go.
The Israelis did very well against all kinds of Middle Eastern pilots in the Mirage III, predecessor to this (basically)
in 1967 and 1973
After Charles De Gaulle did his embargo, I believe Israel was never able to get the Mirage 2000
Israel produced their own model (of the Mirage 5) the Nesher then the Kfir
Now you see them...Now you don’t...ka boom...
Ukraine has become the scrap yard for unwanted Western military tech.
Why are they doing this?
Now we know that our taxpayer money purchased the planes at three times the normal coat.
So, 9 pilots to be shot down...
Get this settled before it escalates any further. The world doesn’t need the French giving excuses for anyone to prolong this thing. End it.
The fact that the French are contributing air craft is a sure indication the war is about over
They can pay gor it with the missing $100bln. That was a mirage too I guess.
Hey baby, French Jets, never been in combat, only landed once...great deal for a steal
Is our resident Froggy going to be flying one? 🐸😉
The Mirage’s effectiveness is a Mirage.
Game changer.
The old Mirage is not a F16 analogue at all. Doesn’t mean they will not be useful, but not the same thing at all.
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