Dassault Mirage 2000-5
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| Type | Multirole fighter |
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| --aircraft= | m2000-5 |
| Status | Early production |
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The Dassault Mirage 2000-5 is a French multirole, single-engine fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. An improvement of the Mirage 2000, it was improved by Thomson-CSF (now Thales Group) in the early 1990s in response to the Mirage 2000's ageing compared to the latest F-16 fighter models.
Improvements over the Mirage 2000 include the capability to carry a laser designator pod, new pulse-doppler multi-target radar, new defensive systems, and updated avionics, including a night vision-compatible glass cockpit, wide-angle HUD, and HOTAS controls.
Coming into service with the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air), and exported to several countries, Dassault further improved it by creating the Mirage 2000-5 Mark 2 
, the most advanced of all Mirage 2000s.
Keyboard Controls
| d | Open/Close canopy |
| e | Fire weapon |
| ⇧ Shift+e | Parachute (landing) |
| Pav Num | Release the corresponding load (Not anymore on 08/2013 version) |
| 0 | Jettison Tank |
| ⇧ Shift+t | Toggle ECM & RWR |
| t | Change Radar Distances (10, 20 50, 100, 150) |
| ⇧ Shift+r | Activate/desactivate targeting the nearest in the HUD (the target has to be bellow radar range) |
| ⇧ Shift+h | Toggle Armements Circles |
| ⇧ Shift+] | On/Off Reactor |
| l | Flare out |
| n | Next Target |
| Ctrl+n | Previous Target |
| Ctrl+b | Air Brake |
| w | Cycle Stick Weapon Mode Selector |
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 14.36 m (47 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 9.13 m (29 ft)
- Height: 5.20 m (17 ft)
- Wing area: 41 m2 (441.3 ft2)
Weight
- Empty weight: 7,500 kg (16,350 lb)
- Loaded weight: 13,800 kg (30,420 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 17,000 kg (37,500 lb)
Engine
- Powerplant: 1 x SNECMA M53-P2 afterburning turbofan
- Dry thrust: 64.3 kN (14,500 lbf)
- Thrust with afterburner: 95.1 kN (21,400 lbf)
Performance
- Maximum speed:
- High altitude: Mach 2.2 (2,530+ km/h, 1,500+ mph)
- Low altitude: 1,110 km/h (690 mph)
- Range: 1,550 km (837 nmi, 963 mi) with drop tanks
- Ferry range: 3,335 km (1,800 nmi, 2,073 mi) with auxiliary fuel
- Service ceiling: 17,060 m (59,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 285 m/s (56,000 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 337 kg/m2 (69 lb/ft2)
- Thrust/weight: 0.91
- Roll Rate: 270 deg/sec
- G limits: +9.0 g / -3.2 g (override mode: 11 g, structural limit: 12 g)
Help
Weapons
Available weapons for FlightGear's Mirage 2000-5 are as follows:
- Guns: 2 x 30 mm (1.18 in) DEFA 554 revolver cannon, 125 rounds per gun
- Missiles:
- Air-to-air missiles: MBDA MICA , Matra R.550 Magic 2 , Matra Super 530 [clarify], AIM-120 AMRAAM , AIM-9 Sidewinder , AIM-54 Phoenix , and the Vympel R-74 .
- Air-to-ground missiles: Storm Shadow (SCALP in French service), Sea Eagle , AGM-65 Maverick , GBU-16 , and the GBU-12 .
- Air-to-air missiles: MBDA MICA
How to fire a guided missile
- Select your missile on the graphical MFD, with the top button of the left series button.
- Then, select your weapon mode with w (cycles through nothing, guns, missiles)
- Press ⇧ Shift+r to activate radar illumination.
- Acquire your target.
- Fire with e.
| Note Due to the generic missile script, FlightGear's Mirage 2000-5 can carry missiles not carried on the aircraft in real life. For a list of weapons available to the aircraft in real life, please see Dassault Mirage 2000#Specifications (Mirage 2000C) .
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| Caution It is a bad idea to fire a missile while under negative G. |
Refueling
Thanks to Fguk's team who worked on the A330-MRTT, the 2000-5 can refuel with it, as an AI, instead of the KA-6.
When Flightgear gives you the TACAN, you can enter it in the MFD screen (watch the how to video), and then, use both radar and the tacan
Only on mirage 2000-5 feature : in french air force, refuelling is always at 22 000 feets.
Radar and HUD
The Radar have 5 distances, (10, 20 50,100, 150) wich can be switched with t. This radar can identify multiple spot and show their level (with only 2 digits) The HUD show both potential target and actual target. It also show if the gear are out, show the ground alt if this on is bellow 5,000 feet, and show mach only if spedd > mach 0.8
Gallery
Mid-air refueling with an A330-MRTT
Refuelling using TACAN and radar
Graphical weapon selection
EICAS for engine mamagement
Development
Changelog 2015-02
3D :
- Several more instrument in the cockpit. The working ones are : startup instrument, light variator instruments.(The others, I'm still working on it)
- New gun explosion : more realistics
- New missiles explosion : more realistics
- New flames that take differents colors, depending of the sun position
- New light effect in the cockpit when using Rembrandt.
- New rule about each instruments lights effects
- Possibility to disable the pilot.
- Desactivate temporary the "non Rembrandt Shadow" that have big issue in MP (and do not allow a correct dogfight)
- New "Exhaust"
- Separated livery & logos (that allow differents HQ logos independently of the livery)
Systems :
- Double center Mfd for the guys who want (or not) the canvas one. The older is now working lot more better.
- Working startup procedure
- Working cockpit light variator
- Utilisation of the <usage> tag
Weapons :
- Ground designation : This now possible to create a "ground target", by clicking on the ground and then clicking at the "Create a Target" in "Mirage 2000 > Fast Config" menu.
Nasal :
- Lot of improvement by using a centralised function lanch and update instead of setListener or multiple different loop. This should invisble to the user except that their FPS will stay high
- Loads are now visible over MP
What was done on the precedent changelog 201308
- A specific and clicable autopilot (see video)
- multi screen MFD
- Radio management on mfd
- An mfd EICAS
- Cockpit general graphics are improved.
- A weapons selection on mfd (wich make the numpad free)
- Better sound, missile script improved (Working aiming missiles)
- working alert panel
- a clock
And lot of other stuff not listed here...
Futures Objectives on the precedent changelog 201308
- Add more clicable instruments- On going (even if some are done)
- Make the start procedure more realistic Done. (Ill add check list later)
- Complete the Alert Panel- On going (60%)
- Make a better HUD -> Use canvas (To make multiple Hud, for example, draw a runway on the HUD while landing with low visibility...) -Not Yet
- Throttle stick,gear green/red light, Jettison all button. On going (even if some are done)
- Checklist
- Add some "ground" feature. Not Yet
- Improve the missile script. On going
- Put sound on missiles. Not Yet
- Make the loads visibles in mp. Done
- Make the RWR work. Not Yet
- Put Missiles on a generic folder. Not Yet
- increase visual on missiles. Not Yet
- Correct the radar issue due to the generic function radardist and multiplayer ATC. Done
- make high resolution liveries (But keep the old ones). Done
- Increase the FDM (correction of some strange behaviour).Done (Roll limitation have been added)
- Make a working ECM ...(Not yet....missiles has to be reworked first)
And more...
Thanks
Helijah (for the 3D), Buckaroo (for the FDM), 5HIN0B1 (for woorkiing weapons and systems) Koubi (For engine script) , FG-TUX (for testing), Ray (for help on MFD), Anusil (For testing), F-Sig, XIII (fr the initial missile script), the f16 team (For the Radar), HUd), the CitationX team (for the middle MFD), All those who created all these 3D missiles that could be addeed to the missile script, Niko (For the wiki and the original ask for the project) , Thomas (for all these liveries) Gijs (for the wiki) and all those forgotten here. Thanks to all.
External link
- Dassault Mirage 2000 (Wikipedia)
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