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Mirage 2000

• The Mirage 2000 Aircraft
• A Class Presentation
• By
• Anand Natarajan

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Mirage 2000 family

• Made by the French Dassault aviation.
• First production for Military use - around 1982.
• Many variations of the aircraft such as
  2000B,C,D,E,N,R,S and 2000 3,4,5,8,9.
• Different attack capabilities such as anti-radar
  missiles, air-surface missiles, in flight
  re-fueling, cluster and modular bombs.
• Some like the 2000B are used as a trainer
  aircraft, 2000 N is for nuclear warheads.
• Used by a large no. of countries in their
  airforce - Janes All the world aircraft

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Mirage Specifications

• Wing span - 9.13 m Aspect ratio - 2.0
  
• Empty weight - 16,500 lbs
• Max external store load - 13,800 lbs
• max wing loading - 84.9 psf
• max speed at level flight - 2.2 M
• minimum speed for stable flight - 115 mph
• max rate of climb - 56000 ft/min (at S/L)
• Service ceiling - 54,000 ft to 60,000 ft.
• overall length - 14.36 to 14.55 m
  - Janes All the
  world aircraft

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Delta wings

• The Mirage is delta winged and
  does not possess canards.
• High take-off and landing speeds and hence
  not for
  carriers.
• High accelerations and maneuverability (3600 in
  15 secs), at the same time low speed stability
  provided.
• Wings are low-mounted delta with clipped tips.
  One turbofan engine mounted in the fuselage.
  Semicircular air intakes alongside the fuselage.

From F.A.S. web site
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Delta wings

• Delta winged aircraft use a device called an
  elevon. It is a combination of ailerons and
  elevators.
• Mirage 2000-5 has the following delta wings.
  580 leading edge sweep, 3.50 trailing
  edge sweep.
• Leading edge slats and elevons provided and
  controlled by fly-by-wire technology.
• The fuselage is Area ruled and blended into the
  wing. -
  Aviation Week

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Mirage 2000

From F.A.S. web site
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Mirage 2000 and F-16

• Mirage 2000 F-16
• Can sustain 2.2 M Lower speeds due
  to flutter problems.
• Can fly at low speeds Recommended not
• of 115 mph. to fly below 150kt/hr
• Subsonic or low altitude High altitude
• maneuverability maneuverability
  (3600/13seconds)
• Upto 7g accelerations Can go up to 9g
• (9gs need pilot forcing) rapidly.
  -Interavia (1986)

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References

• Janes All the world aircraft.
• Mirage 2000 - A French success that is no
  illusion, Air International, March 1990, p.
  111-121
• Mirage 2000 and F-16, one pilot flies them both,
  Interavia, Sept. 1986, p. 975, 976.
• Mirage 2000-5 , Dassaults Delta Described ,
  Flight International, Nov. 20, 1991, p. 41-45
• http//www.dassault-aviation.com/products/index.ht
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• http//www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/mirage-2
  000.htm