French "mirages" will allow Ukraine to affect even more command points of the Russian Federation - Forbes

According to journalists, the appearance of these aircraft will expand Ukraine's capabilities for the task of long -range blows at a critical time when the Armed Forces crews lacks weapons to protect positions. The first batch of supersonic multi-purpose Dassault Mirage fighter 2000-5 is already in Ukraine. As expected, French engineers modified them in such a way that the winged Scalp-EG missiles could be launched. Forbes writes about it.

The appearance of these aircraft will expand Ukraine's opportunities to strike long -range. Ukrainian crews lack weapons to protect positions in eastern Ukraine: so the Air Force play a key role in support, aiming at Russian command points and destroying Russian interactions on the forefront. This enables the defense forces to continue the fight against the predominant enemy forces.

Mirages will be added to the Lockheed Martin F-16 air park in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which mainly cost several hundred former Soviet combat aircraft, which were in service with a full-scale invasion. Ukraine's Air Force lost about 100 old aircraft through Russian missiles. 85 F-16 fighters and possibly ten or more Mirage 2000 will complement the Soviet aircraft in the fourth year of the war.

F-16 fighters, which were previously in Denmark and the Netherlands, performed the task of air defense, aiming at Russian drones and winged rockets that bombard Ukrainian cities. Miraage can perform tasks on ground -based attack. According to La Tribune, the French have finalized Miraage 2000-5 not only for the transportation of SCalp-EG, but also for the transportation of corrected bombs Hammer from France. Scalp-EG is crucial.

Missiles weighing 1300 kg, up to 250 kg with tandem warheads are able to destroy bins and affect the most vulnerable objects of Russian troops - command points. A few months before the recent counter-offensive in Kursk, Ukrainians made a lot of efforts to find and strike at the team points of the Russian 810th Marine Infantry Brigade. Miraage will only be useful if they have enough precision ammunition. It is unclear how many SCalp-EG Ukraine has received from France and Italy. Perhaps only 100.