Current Conext : Recently, Qatar offered to sell 12 Mirage 2000 fighter aircrafts to India.
ABOUT MIRAGE 2000
- It was first commissioned into Indian Air Force in 1985.
- Manufactured by Dassault Aviation, France.
- It is a single engine delta-wing multirole aircraft.
- It is supersonic combat aircraft with maximum speed of Mach 2.2+.
- It can carry laser guided bombs, air-to-air and air-to surface missiles and has a Thomson-CSF RDY (Radar Doppler Multitarget) radar on board.
- It played a important role in 1999 Kargil war and operation Bandar of 2019.