A return to the tailless delta design first made famous by the Dassault-Breguet Mirage III, the Mirage 2000 is a high-tech aircraft using avionics and aerodynamics in the class of the USAF F-16 (and borrows technology from it as well). Designed for high speed at high altitude, low altitude and slow-speed performance were somewhat Compromised. Its large delta wing, which gives good supersonic performance, makes the aircraft unacceptably susceptible to wind gusts at low altitude during attack runs. Thus, the Mirage 2000 is appropriately tasked to interception and air superiority duties. In service since 1987. [See also Mirage 2000H]
