Mirage 2000-5F: is it a worthy addition to the F-16?

https://mil.in.ua/en/articles/mirage-2000-5f-is-it-a-worthy-addition-to-the-f-16/

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7 comments

  1. “Worthy” is a slightly strange way to put it. Of course it’s “worthy,” it’s a great fighter.

    What the actual article itself asks, but never actually answers, is specifically what the Mirage can do for Ukraine that the F-16 can’t. Ukraine currently has more F-16s than it has people to operate them with. Its cup runneth over. Ukraine could do nothing but put resources into the F-16 for the next few years if they wanted. And still not run out of F-16s.

    Diverting some of those resources to another airframe makes sense if the Mirage has some key capabilities that the F-16 doesn’t, but I can’t see what those would be.

    And the article doesn’t say, either.

  2. What would really worthy is to have any of those delivered, instead to keep open promises for a future delivery that never comes

  4. Maybe not the first choice in air to air combat due to the rather older MICA air defense missiles… but the Mirage 2000-5f can drop JDAM, Scalp and Paveway. That is definitely more than useful.

  5. What is up with the french people to vote so overly a fascist? Haben‘t we learned anything from the past? I mean yeah, we have Scholz here in Germany and I can‘t stand him. But I would rather vote CDU and SPD/Greens or whatever back and forth than AfD…

    On the other hand I am not poor and not uneducated, thus I guess when looking and more simple-minded people, they will be looking at the world and search for very easy answers to overly complex problems, and this is where fascism and nationalists come in…

  6. The Mirage will be a worthy addition because F-16s, and pilot training, are proceeding too slowly to give Ukraine adequate numbers of fighters to meet its wartime needs. France can provide planes and train pilots faster than the US. The US is training Ukrainian pilots at a rate of 8 pilots a year. At that rate, it will take two years (delivery in 2025) to provide a squadron, consisting of 16 planes. Even in peacetime, this rate is incredibly low, and it is completely unacceptable in wartime. The war may well be over before the first F-16 squadron is delivered. Even when delivered, the numbers will be too small to significantly affect the military situation.

  7. From what I’ve read, the F16 requires high quality air strip to take launch from and return on. Does the 2000-5F require the same quality of an air strip or are they like the Russian models that don’t require a smooth air strip?

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