A Ukrainian Mirage 2000-5F fighter shoots down a Russian aerial target using the French short-range air-to-air missile Matra R550 Magic 2. Published 26.11.2025



by GermanDronePilot

15 comments

  1. Surprised missiles can even be launced locked on to targets so close to the plane and not even near the front of it.

  2. Thought such a sharp turn of the missile would only work in video games…

  7. **The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. the guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasn’t, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn’t, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn’t. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn’t, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn’t. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. however, it is sure where it isn’t, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn’t, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn’t be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error**

  8. Holy shit! My VR aeronautical games are correct to real life!

    Edit: Removed words that made me sound stupid.

  9. It is the Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) in action. You look at the target you want to fire if it is within that angle and you can fire the missile without having to point ur nose at it. Magic 2s are IR missiles, the pilot looked at the target, locked it and fired from the side.

    Very underrated jet and a very good missile from the French. HMD system is amazing.

    Edit: It is also called – Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (HMCS)

    Seeing this in action makes me happy.

    Second edit, this is not the first time we see a Ukrainian pilot do this in the Mirage 2K. There was another video from few months ago.

    Glory to the heroes!

  11. I like the snakey action, but is this not too close and super shrapnel risky?

    Even short range AA missiles can do 4km, no?

    Skill issue or jet radar issue?

  13. Good. But its too expensive to kill drone with missile and this is not sustainable in the long term.

    A Shaed 136 cost 20000/30000 € but this missile cost x10 a least. A new one maybe x20 ??

    EU need to invest in drone interceptor right now.

    However its cool to see a Mirage in the Ukrainian Sky doing the job !

  14. Impressive that this missile is 10% the cost of an Aim-9 Sidewinder with which it competes.

  15. So after US approval of letting other countries give Ukraine F16s(the fighter that we sold to dozens of countries) it took like 2 years before they had only 6 f16s with trained pilots. They blamed this on training, language barrier and other bs.

    Yet somehow Ukraine already is flying mirages in no time. Just more proof the west was purposefully dragging their feet getting things done.

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