At the time of filming this video
We've been hearing a lot about their Mirage
2000 and the f-16 fighter jets and we've done several videos about the f-16 fighter jet as well now the Mirage
2000 is used by several countries and the comparable f-16 exports to more countries than the Mirage
2000 although similar in some ways in this episode of FTD facts
I'm gonna be looking at the differences between the Mirage 2000 and the f-16 Fighting Falcon. Welcome everyone
My name is Leroy Kenton and thanks for tuning in to another episode
So before I jump into the facts and we get down and dirty into the side-by-side
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Let's first take a look at the f-16 Fighting Falcon
So the f-16 remains the world's most successful combat proven multi-role fighter
Approximately 3000 are operational and these guys are in service in 25 different countries the General Dynamics
F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine supersonic multi-role fighter aircraft that I was originally developed by General Dynamics
Which is now Lockheed Martin for the United States Air Force now in terms of its air combat role the f-16s
Maneuverability and combat radius it exceeds all of the potential fighting aircraft. That would be a threat to it
It can locate targets in all weather conditions and it can detect low-flying aircraft in radar ground clutter when you look at its ear-to-ear
surface role the f-16 Fighting Falcon can fly more than
500 miles which is
860 kilometers and now it delivers its weapons with superior accuracy and defends itself against enemy aircraft the f-16
Is the brainchild of Colonel John Boyd who along with the mathematician Thomas Christie and other?
Innovators they secured the u.s
DoD Department of Defense funding for General Dynamics and Northrup to design a lightweight agile aircraft
So the f-16s were produced from 1973 to 2017 and also now
2019 the number of them that have been built are
4604 and the cost of these guys will run up 29 point 1 million dollars u.s. Now looking at the Mirage
2000 so the Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multi-role
single-engine fourth-generation
Jet fighter, and it's manufactured by Dassault Aviation
This baby took its first fly in the year in 1978
And it was introduced in the French Air Force in the year 1984
So the Mirage 2000 has nine heart points for carrying weapons
System payloads five on the fuselage and two on each wing the single-seat version is also armed with two internal
Mounted high firing rate 300 millimeter guns for its air-to-air weapons
it includes the mi c a multi target air-to-air intercept and
Combatant missiles as well as there's a magic to combat missiles
Now the Mirage 2000 can carry four mi CA missiles it can carry two magic missiles as well as three drop tanks
Simultaneously the Mirage 2000 can fire the MBDA super 530d
Missiles or the MBDA sky flash air-to-air missiles as an
alternative to the mi CA missile
The Mirage 2000 is also equipped 'add to carry a range of air-to-surface missiles and weapons
Including laser-guided bombs now. This aircraft has produced between the years of 1978 to
2007 and only 601 were built and it's just a little bit more pricey than the f-16
These will cost you thirty point six million dollars u.s. Next up in this episode. I want to take a look at the
specifications and the designs of these two aircrafts and see how they differ from one another
So with the f-16 in designing this aircraft
We see advanced aerospace science proven reliability systems from other aircrafts such as f15 and the f-111
The f-16 Fighting Falcon is also available in both single and CC
Configurations and it's also a single-engine aircraft
The fighter jet came into the limelight when it really became the first fighter aircraft to pull
9g maneuvers reaching a maximum speed of over Mach 2 now
It has a maximum high speed of 2,000 120 km/h
It has a length of 50 point zero six meters and has a total
Wingspan of nine point nine six meters now when it's not loaded up with any weapons or anything like that the plane weighs approximately
8,000
570 kilograms
And has a maximum takeoff weight of nineteen thousand two hundred kilograms. The f-16 Fighting Falcon uses a pratt whitney
f100
Jan 20 engine which is an upgraded version of the Pratt Whitney
f100 PW 200 engines with which the f-16 Block C and D were initially powered by now the
F-16 included several different innovations like its frameless bubble canopy and this allows a pilot to have much better
visibility
It has a side mounted control stick and a reclined seat to really reduce the g-force effects on the pilot the f-16 also
carries rockets air-to-air missiles air-to-surface
Missiles and air to ship missiles along with a wide range of bombs and also has radar
Onboard take a look now at the Mirage 2000 specs and details
you see the Mirage 2000 uses a single shaft engine that is light and simple as
Compared to other jet engines and is called the NC
ECM am 53 the majority of the Mirage 2000 is powered by the
NSC ECM a
M53 p2 engine. This aircraft is ideally designed to seat single fighter pilots
but it can be made into a twin sea jet and this just really depends on the kind of use that any
military is gonna be using this aircraft for it has a total length of
fourteen point three six meters and its wingspan is a total of 91 point three meters the plane weighs about
7,500 kilograms when it's not carrying any weapons or any extra gear and it has a total takeoff weight of
17,000 kilograms the Mirage 2000 has a maximum speed of mach
2.2 which works out to be two thousand three hundred and thirty six kilometers per hour and it can travel
1,550 kilometers with drop tanks. The maximum flight height is at 59 thousand feet
Which is 17 kilometers now taking a little bit more of a closer look so the Marashi thousand has a fly-by-wire
flight control system and it has a sextant ve
130
HUD or head-up display which displays data related to flight control navigation
Target engagement and weapon firing in terms of its armament the Mirage 2000 can carry laser-guided bombs air-to-air and air-to-surface
Missiles and it has a thomson-csf
Rdy, which stands for radar Doppler multi target and that radar is onboard of the aircraft as well
now what are some of the variants of these aircrafts for the f16 you see the models are denoted by
Block numbers that represent the upgrades. So for example, the f-16 and B
that's the first set of
aircraft and in the block a that's the single-seat block B is the twin seed version of the aircraft then there's
F-16 C and D the f-16 Ian F the f16 i-n they have 16 IQ
They have 16 and the f-16 V and the Q
f-16 all are different variations of the aircraft with different upgrades that allow the aircraft to do different things like for example
The Q f-16 you don't need a pilot for that aircraft. It operates more like a drone now for the Mirage 2000
It has a lot more variants than the f-16
There's a mirage 2000c the mirage 2000n the mirage 2000d there's a 5 F version
There's a 5 mark - there's the e the M the mirage 2000h and the Mirage 2000
I there's also the P the 5e I the 5 e da the
ADR ad the eg the BR and the broad
2009 all of the aircraft that I just mentioned
our Mirage
2000 is just sometimes I didn't want to say Mirage
2000 because I probably sound like a robot and I'm tired of seeing the name Roger mm
Oh my god now coming down to the bottom of this episode
We see that the f-16 Fighting Falcon is the world's most numerous fixed-wing aircraft in the military
So yeah, there's a lot of f-16s are made like as I mentioned over
4,500 of them the f-16s are used by 25 countries in total including
Turkey Belgium Norway the United States as well as
Pakistan the Mirage 2000 is used by a lot less countries. And those are Brazil the United Arab Emirates
Egypt Greece India, Peru Qatar and France
There's about 600 of these that have been built over the course of 30 years with these differences
Of course
There are pros and cons to each jet if you were to put them head-to-head and we like the Mirage is faster and lighter
however
The x16 can out power the Mirage 2000 in air-to-air combat
All due to its agility and it's better capacity to carry weapons and not to mention the f-16 also has better visibility
However, the Mirage 2000 can carry laser-guided bombs which gives it an advantage in weapon precision
But anyways, thanks for watching and learning with me. You remember the links below to FTD Facts
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