Mirage M-2000C

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The Dassault Mirage 2000C is a supersonic multirole fly-by-wire delta-wing aircraft, which sans technobabble means it is fast and nimble and capable of both air-to-air and air-to-ground combat. Of the two tasks, the C model (for “Chasseur,” or fighter) is more at home in the air-to-air role, featuring DCS's first proper BVR radar to be featured in any of the full-fidelity, non-FC3 aircraft. Before this, there were only the F-5E-3, that had no radar-guided weapons, and the MiG-21bis that had no look-down capabilities, neither of which offered any kind of tracking or target information — only an indistinct blip to steer towards.

Some would argue that the M-2000C's radar, with its need to pick the right filtering modes and scan zones and antenna elevation and, consequently, with its tendency to lose track of a target at the most inopportune moments, is no better than those earlier modules. Those people are silly and wrong.

Features

The M-2000C's air-to-air focus is made further evident by its features list:

• A Mach 2+ top speed and ridiculous climb rate.
• Matra Magic IR missiles and Super-530D semi-active radar homing missiles.
• A built-in ECM pod and countermeasure pods that contain tons of chaff, but very few flares, and a competent RWR to help with employing them properly.
• The option to replace its very handy landing drag chute with an additional “Eclair” countermeasure pod to augment and balance the two out a bit.
• Limited and inaccurate CCIP and CCRP modes that are tied to specific bombs rather than selectable by the pilot.
• In spite of that, the ability to carry a respectable number of bombs, including LGBs.

To get to where it needs to go, the M-2000C also features:

• A complex but very competent inertial navigation system.
• TACAN navigation, with a built-in special mode to navigate to TACAN offset point.
• Thanks to its FBW control system, a very competent and flexible autopilot, including an ILS-guided auto-landing mode.

In many ways, then, the M-2000C is very much like a more fully-developed and advanced version of the F-5E-3 — if you like flying the MiG-28 Tiger, chances are that you will enjoy flying the Baguette as well.

Comes with the built-in M-2000C Campaign.

Flying the M-2000C

Cockpit overview

Shooting something

Engaging a close target in STT mode.

Links and files

• Tippis' Checklist (see also kneeboard mods).
• Chuck's M-2000C guide.
• DCS: M-2000C by RAZBAM in the DCS shop.

Related DCS modules

• 'M-2000C Red Flag Campaign by Baltic Dragon'

More information

• Dassault Mirage 2000 on wikpedia.
• Mirage 2000 (Dassault-Breguet) on globalsecurity.org
• Bunyap's Test Flight - DCS: Mirage 2000C video series.