CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Center sources told ANI, The Indian Air Force has received two Mirage 2000 trainer version aircraft from France. Both the aircraft were flying with their Air Force and reached Gwalior airbase recently.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the beginning of 2022, the air force still reported 106 Mirage 2000 fighters in operations. On June 23, 2022, France bid farewell to the Dassault Mirage 2000C fighter jet, leaving only 66 Mirage 2000D ground attack variant aircraft and 26 Mirage 2000-5 interceptors.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mirage, any member of a family of combat aircraft produced by the Dassault-Breguet aeronautics firm of France. These relatively inexpensive, simple, durable aircraft were adopted by many of the world’s smaller air forces from the 1960s. The first Mirage aircraft was the single-engine, delta-wing Mirage III.