Dassault Mirage 2000-5 / 2000-9
Glass cockpit, RDY radar and six MICA missiles — the multi-target Mirage · First flight 1990 · In service 1997
The Mirage 2000-5 was Dassault's major upgrade of the design, built around the Thales RDY radar with look-down/shoot-down capability, a new glass cockpit and the MICA missile — up to six of which can be fired and guided at once. A converted 2000B first flew in the new configuration on 24 October 1990, followed by a converted single-seater on 27 April 1991.
Taiwan was the first customer, ordering 48 single-seat 2000-5EI and 12 two-seat 2000-5DI in November 1992, delivered between May 1997 and November 1998. Qatar ordered 12 in 1994, and France rebuilt 37 of its own 2000Cs to the air-defence 2000-5F standard, operational from 2000. Greece ordered 15 new 2000-5 Mk2s in 2000 and upgraded 10 earlier aircraft; the last of the 601 Mirage 2000s ever built was delivered to the Hellenic Air Force on 23 November 2007.
The Mirage 2000-9 is the export version of the -5 Mk2 developed for the United Arab Emirates, which ordered it in November 1998: 32 new aircraft (20 single-seat, 12 two-seat 2000-9D) plus upgrade kits for 30 earlier jets, with the RDY-2 radar, a targeting pod and the IMEWS self-protection suite. The first aircraft arrived in 2003.
