Dassault Mirage 2000N/2000D

what is it?

The Dassault Mirage 2000N is a variant of the Mirage 2000 designed for nuclear strike. It formed the core of the French air-based strategic nuclear deterrent. The Mirage 2000D is its conventional attack counterpart.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · 9.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 1,728 km/htop speed
• size 17 tmax take-off weight
• built 75made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 40 years ago, in 1986.
• 🏎️Top speed is 13.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 💥Faster than sound: up to Mach 1.4 (sea-level speed of sound ≈ 1,235 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 9.1 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🏔️Can fly 2.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1986-02-03

retired

2018

status

still flying

number built

75

role

multirole combat aircraft

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Dassault Aviation

engines

1× SNECMA M53-P2

crew

2

length

14.6 m

wingspan

9.1 m

height

5.2 m

max take-off weight

17 t

top speed

1,728 km/h

range

—

ceiling

18,000 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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