Mirage 2000-5 Mk2 Multipurpose fighter

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Category: Fighter aircraft

Mirage 2000-5 Mk2 Multipurpose fighter © Konstantinos Panitsidis

Photos from the personal collection of Konstantinos Panitsidis

 Technical specifications      Photos      Video

 

 

331nd All Weather Squadron “Theseus”
Location: 114th CW – Tanagra Air Base
Year of establishment: 1998 (332 All Weather Squadron: 1989)
Subordination: 114th Combat Wing
Aircraft serving: Mirage 2000-5
Mission: All weather interceptor

 

Mirage 2000-5 is a multipurpose fighter-bomber developed by the French company Dassault. 

On May 3, 2007, the Greek Air Force receives the first upgraded Mirage 2000-5 Mk2 aircraft. And also two more two-seater planes on May 30 of the same month, with numbers 508 and 509.

All modified Mk2 aircraft are part of the 331st Squadron as well as the single-seat modified aircraft from the Greek Aircraft Repair Plant (HAE).

Equipment: RDY-2 Multifunction pulse-doppler radar with a slotted antenna array.

The basic operational functions provided are:
-air-to-air search (all altitude, all sectors, critical target selection and attack of several targets) and interception
-low-level strike (mapping, terrain-avoidance, blind let-down)
-air-to-ground attack
-sea surface search and attack

 

RDY-2 Multifunction pulse-doppler radar with a slotted antenna array © Konstantinos Panitsidis

Performance: Type: X-band (9 to 12,5GHz) multifunction fire-control radar. Detection range 130 km, number of detected and tracked targets 24 and track 8 of 24 detected, and engage the 4 tracked, antenna diameter 0,65 m. 

 

PATCHES

331 All-Weather Squadron 331 All-Weather Squadron "Aigeas"

 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

DESIGNER
Avions Marcel Dassault
COUNTRY
France
TYPE
Multipurpose fighter
CREW
1/2
POWER-PLANT
One Snecma M53-P20
Thrust, kgf
1 x 9.999,3
- with afterburning
9.999,3
- without afterburner
6.628,15
DIMENSIONS
  
Length, m
14,36
Height, m
5,15
Wing span, m
9,13
Wing area m2
41,00
WEIGHT
  
Empty aircraft, kg
7.257
Normal take-off, kg
9.525
Maximum take-off, kg
17.010
Useful load, kg
-
PERFORMANCE
  
Maximum speed, km/h
2.340
Max speed in low height, km/h
1.210
Ferry range, km 3.520
Range, km
1.770
Rate of climb, m/min
18.300
Service ceiling, m
16.714
Maximum overload, g
 9
ARMAMENT
 2x30 mm cannons DEFA 554 with 2 x 125 rounds. Warload - 6.300 kg in 9 hardpoints. Possibility of transport:  
Air-to-air missile Matra Super 530 or R.550 Magic 2, Sky Flash. 
Aair-to-surface missile AS.30, AS.30L or AS-37 Martel or Black Shahine. BombsBLG1000 Arcole  or BLG250 bombs in 400 kg or BLG66 Belouga or BAP-100 and BAR-120, grenade launchers Type 531.
Pod Thompson-CSF/Martin Marietta ATLIS II, or pods Dattack  CC421 with 30 mm cannons DEFA and Launcher 68 mm. Anti-ship missile AM.39 Exocet

 

PHOTOS Mirage 2000-5 Mk2

 

Mirage 2000-5, HAF

 

RDY-2 Pulse-doppler fire control radar

 

VIDEO

Feast of A.F. of Protector Archangel Micheal (Tanagra 2009).
Video: Redstar