{"id":129535,"date":"2024-09-19T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T07:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/french-mirage-2000-fighter-jets-ukraine-ground-strike-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T07:56:23","slug":"french-mirage-2000-fighter-jets-for-ukraine-will-get-ground-strike-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=129535","title":{"rendered":"French Mirage 2000 Fighter Jets For Ukraine Will Get Ground Strike Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sudouest.fr\/societe\/defense\/gironde-du-rafale-au-futur-avion-de-combat-europeen-la-base-de-cazaux-regarde-vers-demain-21422233.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Sud-Ouest<\/a> reportedly stated that the French Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets promised by             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"17780\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/france\/\"  >France<\/a><\/span> to             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"52383\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\"  >Ukraine<\/a><\/span> would be converted to enable them to strike ground targets. Mirage 2000-5Fs were initially designed to launch air-to-air missiles, but the conversion should be easy as this has already been done for         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028606\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/greece-modernizes-air-force-fleet-us-f-35s-french-rafales\/\" >Greek Mirage 2000-5s (which they are now decommissioning)<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s expected Mirage 2000-5Fs are expected to be configured for ground strikes, while the first F-16s were configured for air defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9442,120,628,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-dassault-mirage","category-europe","category-fighter-jets","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129536,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129535\/revisions\/129536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}