A French air force Mirage jet readies for takeoff during Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Aug. 8. (U. S. Air Force photo/Technical Sgt. Bob Sommer)
France will supply Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to Ukraine and begin training pilots this summer, with the first training completed by the end of the year, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on June 6 while in Normandy for D-Day commemorations.
In an interview with broadcasters TF1 and France 2, Macron said that France was building a coalition with other countries to provide the jets, similar to the coalition by several other European countries to supply Ukraine with American-made F-16 fighter jets.
Dassault Aviation produced about 600 Mirage 2000 jets, of which 315 entered service with the French Air and Space Force. The rest were exported to India, the United Arab Emirates, Greece, Taiwan, Egypt, Brazil, Qatar and Peru.
The Mirage 2000-5 is an updated version with improved radar. It’s compatible with the Mica anti-aircraft missiles and Exocet anti-ship missiles as well as the Scalp land-attack cruise missiles and AASM glide bombs that France has supplied to Ukraine.
Macron declined to say how many jets France will provide, noting details will follow on June 7 when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Paris.
“The key factor is pilot training time, and so we’re going to propose to President Zelenskyy that pilots be trained as early as this summer — it normally takes five to six months — so that by the end of the year they’ll be able to fly these aircraft,” Macron said, adding that the Ukrainian pilots will be trained in France.
During the same interview, Macron said that Ukraine can use French arms to attack locations in Russia from where the country is being targeted, including Russian territory, in a decision similar to the one the United States took last month.
“The limit is set by what the Russians do,” the French President said. “We’re not the ones who decide now that we’re going to change our methods and attack Ukraine from Russian soil.”
Macron’s announcement was not surprising considering that France became one of the main arms suppliers to Kiev forces after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
Mirage 2000-5 could help keep the Ukrainian Air Force, which has already lost most of its fighter jets, operational. However, just like the F-16s Kiev is awaiting, the French fighter jets are outdated compared to their Russian rivals and will not likely change the balance in the Ukrainian skies.
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they will get shot down as easily as all of ukraines other jets
will there be any men left in ukraine to fly them, at the end of the year?
the question is do the mirage 2000-5 fighter jets come with french pilots?
i think littel napoleon (macron) is looking for ways melt down eiffel tower!
🇷🇺 will🚀 💥🔥⚛☢🇫🇷🗼no more
macron, take your stuff and get out. you are fired from humanity!
yeah, this stinky reptiloid should go away to aldebaran or nibiru, i don’t know where they live. but before that he must swim in seine and drink its water.
the seine is a cesspool. macron would feel right at home.
message a tout mes compatriotes dans l’armée : si vous voulez vraiment servir la france, démissionnez rapidement. vos compétences, vous pourrez les utiliser pour défendre la france sur son territoire, là où sa défense est légitime. personne ne gagne une guerre nucléaire. par contre on aura besoin de vous en cas de guerre civile. vous voulez vraiment que vos familles brûlent pour les intérêts des mondialistes ?
merci. tres bien dit.
français ne vous battez pas pour les interets de blackrock, monsanto et vanguard.. rotchild a acheté le félon micron, traitre a la nation.
toujours les mēmes qui font faire la guerre aux goys et s enrichissent a nos depends
pilots will just leave these jets standing outside to be bombed and destroyed. game over.
the ukrainien pilots are trained in france on mirage 2000 since mid 2021. source france air force combat pilot retired flying as captain on boeing in one of the big three emirati airlines
do you know what mirage means? it means illusion
bomb gay paris to smithereens
better than any russian aircraft. well done! keep it up!
hahahahahhaha……of course, that is why the west’s junk is being sent in. remember the days when you told us russia was losing? why would the west be getting more involded if russia was losing?? hahahahahhaa
russia hasn’t won anything. why do you think they keep talking about using nukes.
western elites are braindead, that’s why. they need to realize what is at stake if they continue the untenable path they are on
so you think a 1977 year design is sure better than a mig31, mig35, su34, su35 or su57?
hahahahaaaaa
your military knowledge is somewhere below dogshit, so please stop commenting about things you have obvious absolutely no idea of.
lol
it’s not even better than a mig-29. read what some of the pilots that flew both have to say.
go ahead, it’s easy enough to search.
quality and abilities below even the old f16 that will come in some months to ucraine, maybe.
also a joke that the little napoleon actor says in an interview that the pilot training will take only 6 months.
after 6 months you could maybe take of and land such a plane, but nothig more, so for sure some frog pilots will sit in there, same like in some of the f16.
the half a brain piece of shit parrot has less brain than a chicken
russia will regret not ending this quick while they had the chance.
oh wait, that was not part of the zionist script.
look at that, the french fries have bigger balls than the flathead nazis from germany.
i wonder if flatheadmaster gneaus stapo, aka brownundies kraut, can explain why the little bitches in germany are so afraid of the russians?
let me xplain. the germans are “hosting” tens of thouands of yankee troopers. the french are hosting zero american troops. so germany is occupied. i hope its clear. host yankee troops, become a serf
germans in this case have more sense. germany and russia are natural allies. this is something deep down both sides know. but the anglo americans for hundreds of years have tried to prevent. the anglo world order is not natural. it is a perversion. i suggest england gets hit very hard. this is something that russia, usa, china and france can agree on behind closed doors. england needs to be put down
mirage 2000 = junk. poor ukro lowers plenty of fliying coffins
rus by mal v afrike trochu viac pritvrdiť muziku. treba tých žabo – žrútov vykopať z afriky a to natrvalo. svetu mier!!!
obsolete junk — even worse that the 40 year old f-16
an outdated flying piece of old scrap iron
macron put on a great show for the 203 frenchmen that took part in the d day landings. i take it zelensky was invited to represent the ukrainian forces that served with the germans and manned the walls of fortress europe. the celebration yesterday reveal the truth behind the d day landings.
the landings weren’t to liberate europe from the germans. they were to make sure the russians didn’t liberate europe all the way to the rhine.
i’m surprised azov wasn’t invited to show off their new banner with the wolfshook on a black nazi eagle background. maybe bojo was so impressed, he decided to keep it.
burn the birds . dont let any pilots escape
opening the second front against nazis and the next day sending weapon for nazis. biden sent his weapons to nazis in 9th of may in 2022. they are all were pro-nazis and still pro-nazis. bush family traded oil to nazis till 1944, when the 2nd front opened and it was impossible to continue trading.
rise of nazis in 1930’s is also connected with anglo-saxon bankers as well as credits to german industry and “pacifying policy” which allowed nazis to annex austria and cz and increase industrial potential of the reich. every third german tank in 1941 was made at “skoda” plant.
it might seem unbelievable but ford actually had a factory in nazi germany which manufactured vehicles for the wehrmacht. ford was compensated by the us government for damage to its german holdings caused by allied bombing, by the us government.
built by “general motors” factory “opel” was nationalized and produced large number of trucks such as the most known model “blitz” (“lightning”).
charles de gaulle is turning in his grave.
with gods wisdom the people of france will wake up and then the tyrant macaron will have to flee to to island saint helena.
macron is the only politician where his wife turns to her son to give her husband fatherly advice. ha ha.