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France will provide Ukraine with additional Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets in the coming days, President Emmanuel Macron announced during a meeting of the so-called “coalition of the willing” on October 24, according to Le Monde.
Macron was quoted as saying that France would “deliver additional Aster missiles, new training programs, and new Mirage aircraft in the coming days.” He also stressed that it is “very important to continue our efforts to support Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia.”
Speaking after the coalition meeting, Macron said that the aid is a part of France’s broader commitment to strengthening Ukraine’s air defense and air force capabilities.
France has already supplied at least three Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets to Ukraine as a part of an earlier pledge to transfer up to six.
The Mirage 2000-5F is equipped with an upgraded RDY radar system and MICA beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles. This version of the Mirage was developed all the way back in the 1990s for air-to-air duties only. However, the ones supplied to the Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) were reportedly upgraded with air-to-ground capabilities.
These capabilities likely include the integration of Scalp land-attack cruise missiles and AASM guided glide bombs, which France has already supplied to Ukraine.
The UAF has already admitted losing one of its Mirages. The fighter jet crashed in the northwestern Ukrainian region of Volyn in July. The air force said at the time that a technical malfunction caused the crash. However, Russian media reported that the fighter jet was likely shot down.
According to Le Monde, the UAF may ultimately receive between 12 and 20 Mirages, though the exact number remains undisclosed.
Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on sovereignty, called the French decision to supply more Mirages to Ukraine a “mockery,” calling the fighter jet “outdated.”
“The transfer of outdated and unsuccessful Mirage fighters to Ukraine is a mockery and a blow to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After the first transfer of these fighters, one of them has already crashed in Ukraine due to an electronic failure. Then the pilot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine miraculously escaped,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
The French decision to supply the Mirage 2000-5F to Ukraine is a part of a wider effort by NATO to keep the UAF operational. Dozens of other warplanes, including American-made F-16s, were also supplied to the UAF. At least four of the supplied F-16 have already been lost.
Earlier this month, Ukraine and Sweden also announced an agreement on supplying the UAF with up to 150 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets. The two sides, however, only signed a non-binding letter of intent. It is highly unlikely that agreement will actually go through in full, due to its extremely high cost.
Despite all of these efforts, the UAF is still barely operational. And even if everything promised to Ukraine was eventually delivered, which is highly doubtful, the Russian Aerospace Forces will remain much more superior in both quality and quantity.
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the problem of the western leaders and the lemmings that still believe their bullcr*p is that they don’t understand when it is.
is the whole lemmings herd gonna jump on the bandwagon or jump off a cliff? they about to jump on the bandwagon that is about to ‘jump off a cliff’ (litteraly)…
ukrainian defense appears to be collapsinggg
dear french populace we your gov can’t allocate any budget for everything that everyone needs the most but off course you don’t need to know we just spent over 2 extra billions from the taxes you pay (including vat we just increased) for a war we could have ended if we did not sabotage on purpose the minsk 2 agreements…
the war wont end this is not about east or west but about the jews behind both sides zelensky and putin hugging the wailing wall for their jewish overlords. we the goyim are tricked in another brother war were the white race russians and ukranians and soon other europeans suffer thousands of losses of lives. we are loosing the best of us. its all according to the jewish plan to wipe us out
these jews are pushing very hard to have us set up for a another big war that will cosf millions of lives between us. we need to wake up as a collective and put a stop to the jewish supremacy once and for all they want us d ed and that is all these jews are working for. war between europeans and russians is just one aspect of it they have plenty of self destructive agendas against us and plenty of shabbosgoy doing their bidding
look at gaza today and understand the jews did this and this is what they did to their closest brothers the palestinians what do you think they are going to do to us once they have tricked us into a direct confrontation a big war in europe or against china. they want to k ill us by the tens if millions. the jews want us d ed and they do everything to achieve that goal. they have absolute control in the west and in the east.
nothing happens without them wanting it to happen on their watch. we were tricked with the plandemic in taking jewish poison d eath jabs that made millions of women infertile many d ied because of blooth cloths heart damage turbo cancers. these jews are doing everything they can to have us k ill ed so they can have this whole world as their own that is their ultimate goal.
unfortunately most of us are oblivious to that fact and stuck on stupid cheering on trump or putin our lord our savior. none of these jew serving goyim will save you they control both the west and east. we are being tricked in our own destruction. it is important to understand at the very least the jews are behind all of it. all these events 911 covid ukraine war 7th okt etc.
they would be powerless if the greed of the others would not make it easy for them. you cant blame somebody for exploiding the stupidity of others.
very true they wounld be able to get away with everything if not for all these politicians and shabbosgoy who do their bidding. all th ese chr istians for is rael are sha bbo sgoy. they need to unde. rsrand that ta lmudic jews are the syn agogue of s at an they are babyl on ian mo lo ch wo rshi ppers who prac tice all kinds of ritu als with chil dre. n.
in front of our eyes epsteins v ict im virginia roberts was m urd ered by these jews who want to cover up the epstein files. tr u mp is also very deeply involved. and marina abramovic a yugoslav juu says hes a priest of the highest ordee among them. they are true demons.
it is horrible what they are doing in gaza and in ukraine they have absolutr control over both sides. netanyahu funded hamas to use them as a means to divide the palestinian opposition in 2 camps and have justificistion to commit a g eno against them
oh look mia has another pseudonym…..
they want russia they need a bait on the hook and that’s zorrolinsky s mighty mouse mouthpiece .
they want the land cleared from russians and ukranians. as a revenge for them resisting against the marxist jews under lenin and stalon who were star ving them by the millions in the h olo domor. the rabbis preach this on and on they love how ukranians and russians s uffer.
and they might have plans to build a new khazar empire in the lands that they are now depopulating altough i see in the short term they have their focus on greater israel
no the entire bolshevic thing was the conclusion of a century long revenge plan of the very people that once rules over ukraine as khasars and thats the whole reason they hate russia that much.
tax deductible donations or sold as scrap ? paid for by unaid ?
all these clown planes are a joke .. but it would take few f-35s to totally wreck the russian air force , and they wouldn´t even need to cross the frontline .. russia still dosn´t have an operational stealth plane , while f117 was produced already in 1982 ..what a shame, that´s on putin
oh dear, another “exceptional” yanquie. russia currently tracks every f-35 in europe plain as day. ‘stealth’ is a myth exposed in 1999 when serbia shot down an f-117 – “sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible!”
still waiting for a western putin fan that isn´t a delusional schizo, btw russia could have copied the f117 from the wreck same way israelis copied mirage fighter, soviets b29 or chinese all soviet planes , they could have had f117 clone in 2022 instead of worthless su34 .. but putin is negligent and incompetent
the russians didnt get the f117 the chinese did. the usa bombed the chinese embassy cause the parts were stored there but the chinese still got some parts out of serbia and to china. the russians did participate in the operation with a ship in the mediteranian but the sensors on the chinese embassy and the french guy who told about the flight path did the heavy lifting besides the serb pilot and anti air operators.
interesting , shows how incompetent fsb was if so ,as serbia was russias close ally at that time ..guess who was the head of fsb at that time … putin
an ally does not clear the path for nato by pulling all their ships out of the region. russia was never an ally of anyone in the balcans just used them.
maybe russia wasn´t serbia´s ally ,but serbia was russia´s ally
they were and the people still are not the government who just consists of actors like pashinyan or zelinsky. and they were or are to their own detriment.
more junk in the laundry. the west no longer has any dignity.
anything not delivered in significant numbers at once wont make a difference. if the 100 saab gripen are delivered in 10-15 peaces they wont make a difference either if they deliver 50 or more at once then they can do something. but for that it may be to late. the old tactic of the west to give the weaker side enough to prolong the war but not to really have a chance sidelined the ukrainians.
nato bojuje cudzími rukami proti rf. zbavujú sa starého šrotu a predávajú ho ukrajine veľmi draho, pritom sa im darí navyše ešte aj poškodzovať ekonomiku rf. rusko by malo konečne začať niečo proti takémuto konaniu usa a eu robiť. je čas. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
we’re still laughing at midget poohtin’s “red lines”!!!
heheheh