Ukraine - Russia Conflict

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The first three ex-French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters are scheduled to arrive in Ukraine before the end of April, French newspaper La Tribune reported. The newspaper also confirmed what French Pres. Emmanuel Macron implied when he pledgedsurplus Mirage 2000-5s to Ukraine back in June: the supersonic jets will come fitted for Ukraine’s best French-made air-to-ground weapons, including SCALP-EG cruise missiles and Hammer glide bombs.

Capable of striking targets as far away as 155 miles—the maximum range of the inertially-guided, turbojet-powered SCALP-EG and similar, British-made Storm Shadow—the Mirage 2000-5s promise to expand the Ukrainian air force’s capacity for deep strikes on Russian targets in occupied Ukraine.
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