Mirage 2000



"A French multirole, single-engine fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation, the Mirage 2000 one kinda looks like a Mirage III to me. Well, it seems that France is ready to stop Russia from attacking Ukraine before it would knock Crimea down into submission that could lead to a formal Russian annexation to this peninsula. Looks like Ukraine's getting the upper hand of it while France is doing so."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Crimean Peril

The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter based on the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air). The Mirage 2000 evolved into a multirole aircraft with several variants developed, with sales to a number of nations. The variants include the Mirage 2000N and 2000D strike variants, the improved Mirage 2000-5 and several export variants.