The Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000 was selected in December 1975
as the future combat aircraft for the French Air Force, to see service
through to, and beyond, the year 2000. Returning the pure delta-wing
layout adopted for the earlier and highly successful Mirage III/V series
of fighters makes the Mirage 2000 almost unique amongst current
generations of advanced technology fighter aircraft. The delta-wing
layout offers some major advantages, but also has disadvantages, and
Dassault-Breguet carried out much development work to improve the
efficiency of such planforms, in the Mirage 2000, this is greatly
assisted by the use of computerised controls and fly-by-wire technology,
which give full control over any inherently unstable flight
characteristics throughout the performance range.
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