{"id":1815,"date":"2019-02-27T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:33:56","slug":"why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mirage of \u201980s is IAF\u2019s \u2018weapon of choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India with its 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets decimated multiple terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan.<\/li><li>The Mirage-2000 is one of the Indian Air Force&#8217;s (IAF) most versatile and deadliest aircraft and it was first commissioned in 1985.Soon after inducting the Mirage, IAF gave it the name \u2013 Vajra \u2013 meaning lightning thunderbolt in Sanskrit.<\/li><li>The fighters, manufactured by French planemaker Dassault Aviation, can carry a mix of bombs and missiles on its nine hard points.Apart from India, Dassault sold the Mirage 2000 to 8 other countries, including the home country of France, Egypt, UAE, Peru, Taiwan, Peru, Greece and Brazil.<\/li><li>The Mirage-2000 can carry out precision strikes during day and night and had played a decisive role in the 1999 war of Kargil.<\/li><li>In 2011, a contract was signed to upgrade the existing Mirage-2000 jets with (a) advanced avionics (b) new multi-mode target radars (c)reconfigure glass cockpits (d) state-of-the-art warfare systems and (e) capability to launch advanced missiles.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India with its 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets decimated multiple terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan. The Mirage-2000 is one of the Indian Air Force&#8217;s (IAF) most versatile and deadliest aircraft and it was first commissioned in 1985.Soon after inducting the Mirage, IAF gave it the name \u2013 Vajra \u2013 meaning lightning thunderbolt&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-mirage-of-80s-is-iafs-weapon-of-choice-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Mirage of \u201980s is IAF\u2019s \u2018weapon of choice\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[816,2216],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-iaf","tag-mirage-2000","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704877518},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}