Mirage 2000 Thread : Variants, performance, characteristics and sources

I think the reason it is valid is because overall while the f-14 may have edge in a specific situation, it does not have the edge in most engagements, especially when miraeg can pick the engagements.
Even when the f-14 can possibly have a chance of killing the mirage in a sustained turn rate, i think the mirage takes the crown due to it being overall otherwise superior in that aspect.

Dogfights often start at mach speeds. You said the f-14 would have energy. And often aircraft fly at max mach speeds during air rb battles. Rarely do they start dogfightning from mach 0.5.
Often people merge at a mach speed and go into vertical to deplete the excess energy so they can use that for maneuvering. Also people don’t seek for dogfights at low speeds anyway because flying at low speeds is unsafe.

It’s not the f-14 pilot’s fault that the mirage has smaller turning circle while burning speed. It’s expected behavior. It should happen. What is about skill is wether the f-14 can dodge those shots at close range.

We are comparing the F-14A not F-14B because F-14A is a 11.7 just like the current mirage 2000.

Nothing would exactly prevent the mirage going low in such situation and running - additionally at medium altitudes the mirage 2000 will have advantange of maneuvering until the jets hit sea level.

Equal ground means they both start from opposite bases and build whatever speed they want based on the capabilities of their plane - its fair for mirage to start faster because that is within the capability of said plane at low altitude.
Speed will depend on the limits of the aircraft, fairness in this type is restricted to what the airframe can do, not moral fairness of starting at the same point because we are measuring differences between airframe performance, not moral 1v1 performance.

Also the argument about f-14 being able to catch mirage at low speed would be about exploiting a mistake rather than the f-14 being better, since it can’t catch the mirage when mirage is flying at a reasonable altitude in top tier battles, it can’t exactly force a fight based on being better airframe.

Would you mind to join a 1v1 just for fun? It doesn’t need to affect the arguments anyway.

Mirage cant pick the engagements, thats the problem. Mirage can be faster on the deck but as soon as Tomcat gains little bit altitude your only advantage in Mirage dissapeares very fast.

Tomcat have edge on multiple scenarios against Mirage so your point is not valid by any means.

Mirage is not superior by any means, only thing that is better in Mirage is Magic2’s which can be easily avodiable due to how irccm is weak.

Dogfights usualy starts arond Mach 0.8-0.9.

Simply untrue, any skilled pilot will use his plane’s best possible dogfight speed.

Dogfights becomes only viable if the situation is 1vs1 otherwise its pointless anyways.

Which is clear disadvantage against any Tomcat pilot who knows what his doing.

Which becomes even less viable considering Tomcat A is faster then B model on the deck we also compared B model a lot, cherrypicking does not suit you.

Which simply untrue considering Tomcat can deploy its wing in dogfight and will easily gain much more maneuvrebility.

İf you’re gonna start dogfight you dont just build speed, you need to play your cards right and should gain enough speed where you can use your advantages.

Same for Mirage where it can force Tomcat to one circle fight and kill it.

Only on deck, again cherrypick.

Better airframe is exaggerated in that case.

İm not on my computer right now if you didnt noticed, all those screenshots i posted was coming from my phone.

Tomcat at altitude > vulnerable to missiles
Tomcat doesn’t want to get engaged by missiles > has to get low

Mirage is faster low

So the mirage can force an engagement when theres is a risk of missiles against f-14.
Im now going to test the f-14A max speed at 4000m altitude (you probably would not be chilling at this altitude anyway in a real battle but lets include it for your theory anyway).
F-14a is able to go mach 1.45 before “reduce speed” at 4000m
mirage is able to go mach 1.53 before “reduce speed” at 4000m
So, at medium altitudes the mirage will still be dictating the engagements

I’m not cherrypicking, i’m being unbiased. They’re both currently 11.7.

It would not beat the mirage in instantenous turn or turn radius fight. It would have good sustained turn rate.

It’s actually up to whoever is flying how they start the dogfight. If it is beneficial for the mirage to go faster then so be it.

I based on my tests* mirage was faster at 4000m too however most dogfights atleast start from deck and being faster on deck is better than on altitude because deck is safer against radar missiles.
Also, even if the f-14a can kill the mirage 2000 in a very very specific dogfight situation, that doesn’t exactly take away the mirages otherwise superior capabilities that are also pervasive through most gameplay situations.

Tomcat at altitude=Mirage is running away.

Tomcat on low altitude=its about to engage with Mirage.

Mirage cannot force any engagement because only time you can utilize your higher speed will be running away from Tomcat.

As i said before only time you can utilize those speed are the situations where you are running away from Tomcat, if you think you can start turn around and force to Tomcat for dogfight i would suggest to check that option again cause it will not end Well for you.

You should have mention before considering we talked about Tomcat B many times on previous arguments also S4 can and will see Tomcat B so its viable in that case.

Who said anything about instantenous turn? By simply deploying Wings Tomcat can gain much more agility there it can evade Mirage’s initial turn more easily.

Fair enough.

Can you explain those superior capabilites?

İt has less İr missiles then Tomcat which can be easily flareable if you know what you’re doing.

İt has worse BVR capabilities considering it doesnt have any Fox-3 missiles and radar on Tomcat is generally better.

İt has less missiles overall which means less effectiveness in combat, same goes for countermeasures.

The only thing where Mirage has superiority is the top speed which will work when you run away from Tomcat.

As i Said before if both pilots are on equal level and both of them sits at average capabilites then Mirage is more easy to use and has higher chance but if both pilots sits at same skill level and skill level is higher then Mirage doesnt have too many chance against Tomcat.

Why would the mirage run at 4000m? It can dodge the aim-7m’s, if it can’t its likely for those to get notched.

Mirage can utilize that top speed to chase tomcat if tomcat has gone defensive in bvr.

I think i did indeed mention it earlier.

Does the deployed swings make you more agile than swept wings? yes. However you won’t still beat the instantenous turn rate of mirage with those wings.

The thing is that someone can know what they’re doing but otherwise this is not enough. Mirage 2000 can often close up to enemies that it faces, going inside irccm range forcing a kill.
F-14 has very shit ir missiles, not all aspect, no irccm, low maneuverability, youre lucky to get a kill even at close ranges. additionally you’re flying at average speeds, you can’t chase everyone anyway.

Considering that the mirage 2000 can defeat aim-54 without effort i can’t exactly say that this counts as a better bvr capacity…

While it has less missiles, it has better missiles. You can fire your 9H’s perfectly and they are going to miss or get dodged
You can easily force a situation where the magic 2 is undodgeable. Additionally because the 530D is extremely hard to dodge you almost always get a kill with those anyway.
F-14’s missiles are widely weaker therefore they don’t make up even in amount.

Speed coupled with magic 2’s, 530d’s and good maneuverability are absolute advantanges. The speed fully serves the irccm missiles. 9H’s aren’t effective at all.

Because its likely that the mirage will choose 1 circle it will have edge in the first engagement - if it can get a missile off or gun rounds off, it can get the kill. However this is too theory and skill based, f-14 would win if it failed in some situations - in the situation that the mirage can’t run away.
The f-14 might have a larger amount of missiles, but since the missiles are worse, it isn’t exactly better missile vice.
Seriously, the capacity to force a kill with irccm missile can’t be ignored. F-14 can’t do this. This is a huge difference.

As a hostile player towards f-14, you can dodge the aim-7m’s and you can dodge or flare the 9H’s without much effort. And if you are a fast aircraft, you can run away
You have a mirage behind you, you often can’t do shit even with flares

Mirage just is stronger because you can’t do much against it. Even if the f-14 had 8 aim-9H, it wouldn’t make up. Those missiles aren’t equal.

Mirage is also stronger when facing uptiers.
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You have potentional - just like aardvark with the 8x aim-9b
However, you don’t have real force. You don’t force a kill by having a stronger aircraft. You do it by exploiting mistakes.
Again, a stronger aircraft doesn’t need to exploit the mistakes of someone to kill them whicha makes them better.
You can fight against something that exploits your mistakes - thats reasonable. 10.7 can do it.
Additionally due to f-14’s average speed you’re often more vulnerable towards heat seeking missiles. You’re also a bigger physical target and a heat target. You also burn your fuel quite fast.

Mirage 2000H (IAF) would be 12.3 BR to rank 8 but not rank 7 & higher 11.3

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What scares me is the UK/commonwealth tree getting it

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We can consider the f-14a equal to mirage when phoenixes get their 25g fix, if they ever get one.

Then higher speed becomes less revelant in that case.

And why would Tomcat should get in to that position? Cause it can simply stay low after launching Phoenix missiles from far away and return to low altitude.

İ dont remember so have to check it before but the wasnt the case what i remember, still Mirage can and will see F-14B.

İ clearly stated you can evade not beat it, if what you say were true then Mirage would always beat anything in dogfight, sadly in real life F-14 and F-16 plays with Mirage in dogfights.

İrccm only becomes revelant if you sit behind your enemy otherwise Magic-2 is easy to defeat on other angles.

Aim-9L’s pretty good missiles.

Tomcat is quite agile it becomes even better once you deploy your wings.

Got quite amount of close range kills in my both Tomcat, simply untrue and compare to getting kills with Mirage its much more easy considering M61 Vulcan is superior to DEFA cannons in terms of ballistics.

Tomcat can fly much higher speeds easily, simply untrue again besides Mirage will also not be flying at its top speeds most of the time.

Same goes for Mirage 2000, you cant just simply run away from many things on regular combat scenarios considering you will not be on your top speed most of the time.

Doesnt matter if you can dodge or not you have no option to engage enemies from distance where Tomcat can.

Again its only better in certain situations.

You simply cannot, assuming both pilots have similiar experience.

Your personal claim which doesnt represent the truth.

Simply untrue again, if we consider both planes will achieve 100 percent hit ratio then Tomcat become superior.

Again you’re exaggrating, Magic-2’s are one of the easiest missiles that can be dodgeable even with irccm, if we were talking about Aim-9M situation would be different.

Same goes for 530D’s and maneuverability is not that special,its personal choice.

Its more about being able to catch someone. either you can or can’t

It was assumed earlier that both of them start at an altitude in head on
Sure the tomcat can go low, so can the mirage.

This is wrong. You would be out of energy and wether you win or lost would be based on your skill to hit that one shot. It wont always beat everything. However you have one opportunity to kill someone.
Instantenous turn doesn’t mean that you keep the speed when you’re turning, its the opposite. It’s what makes the mirage a 1 circle fighter and what makes it lose in a 2 circle fight.

And that is exactly where you can get your guaranteed kills from because youre faster. just get behind someone, they can’t run away. That is a very powerful feature compared to f-14a being trash even from behind.

F-14A uses aim-9H

Gotta get slow to use the agility of tomcat which presents a risk. You are more dependant on killing people in dogfights because you cant just get guaranteed kills with aim-9h’s

The thing is that while everyone in combat is not flying the exact top speed, mirage can accelerate into it if it needs to, additionally mirage probably on average flies way faster than other aircraft even while maneuvering. Especially compared to f-14 at low altitudes.

Does it matter if you can engage enemies from far if you have a 17g missile that is easy to dodge? The kills that you receive are not coming from raw power. They simply come because idiots are too unaware to dodge an aim-54.

That is why f-14a fits 11.7. it can’t force kills with any of its missiles, even the aim-54 is a noob check and evadable
10.7 planes can evade those missiles.
10.7 planes can’t evade mirages missiles, that is not anyhow balanced. even in uptier you should be able to do something.
Since the f-14’s missiles are like aim-9b’s, they require your target to fly in a straight line and not maneuver, they are not that dangerous in an offensive way.
Mirage’s missiles are rather dangerous and even with extreme maneuvering you may get hit.
Mirage can contest 12.0’s and mirage is better than f-14. mirage is a 12.0, there are no other force kill missile platforms of 11.7.

Your missile is not good because you killed a straight flying enemy. Your enemy is just stupid. F-14 wouldn’t be competetive at 12.0 because most people around there aren’t stupid.

In the same sense, one could claim a possibility of killing with amount of gun rouds. You rarely hit your gun rouds but we could argue that if you hit all 250 gun rounds to get a kill then thats quite strong…
F-14A is not effective due to strength. It’s effective because your enemies are stupid. If your enemies are smart, they can counter the f-14A

Simple as that. f-14 isn’t the threat that a mirage 2000 is. F-14 isn’t dangerous, its a noob check.
I bet aardvark is good in air to air because it can carry a large amount of missiles that can hit targets that are ignorant…

F-14 is not competetive in an uptier because it is weaker.
mirage is very competetive because it is stronger
significantly stronger = should have higher battle rating.

Winrate is meaningless.
But I would agree that Mirage 2000 s4/5 smoke F-16s armed with AIM-9L.

You overstate the capability of Magic 2. Currently you do with Super 530D what platforms at 11.7 can do with AIM-7F/M.
Regarding 4x AIM-9L/H or 2x Magic 2 it is a matter of preferance and how any given match plays out.
You have to hold off on shots on Mirage 2000 because you have to fear your missile is being wasted.

Mirage 2000 shines because of it’s flight performance.

Additionally noob check on F-14 would be wether you chose AIM-7 or AIM-54.

The issue as it so often is is BR compression. Without some of the uptiers and people who are not suffering from various issues quite so severely F-14A would do much better. Mirage 2000C S4/5 have somewhat inflated stats from some of the lobbies they end up in. Predomenantly downtiers and questionable gameplay choices in those lobbies by F-4 players in particular…

By and large F-4 players made it possible for me to get more or less the same stats on S4 as I have gotten on S5 when the latter was pretty much the best jet in game. Soft Factors play a role even in War Thunder.

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İn order to catch someone you have to keep him in defensive position which does not always happens.

Which means Mirage’s potantiel armament becomes less potent considering Tomcat can carry more ir missiles.

Meanwhile Tomcat will get more then one shot considering sustained turn fight gives more chance.

Did you just really try to explain what is one circle? Lmao.

And how do you plan to get someone’s behind? İf they dont play like braindead that scenario will most likely not happen, another cherrypick scenario.

And F-14B has Aim-9L which is plane you will reguarly see while playing 11.7 not to mention it sits at 12.0 where you want to put Mirage 2000 S4.

Not even true, Tomcat can use it agility at pretty good speeds.

Same goes for F-14B.

İt does cause you have to stay constant against upcoming threats while F-14 get better position, denying Fox-3 advantages is just simply idiotic.

Personal claims, both plane will struggle against uptier.

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Yeah I agree. I’m not quite sure where this huge argument came from. I feel identically if not a bit more capable in an F-16 having 7Ms instead of 530Ds and 4 9Ls compared to 2 Magic 2s. Even without the IRCCM, the extra missiles give you more room for error, along with debatably more forgiving cannons, radar, and flight performance.

I also agree and feel like there is a lack of outside influence people are forgetting:

  1. It is French, which historically trends of having less players, but those that do are usually are more experienced.
  2. There wasn’t any outrage with just the S5 sitting at 11.7, but now there is a problem when people who haven’t played the Mirages or French tree before are put in in a favorable matchmaker also at 11.7?
  3. The favorable matchmaker; it is an event vehicle that many people received, playing with usually more skilled teammates, at a br where the majority of opponents are newer players in 10.7-11.3 premium jets.

With time, winrates and the matchmaker will normalize. And if they do go up eventually, they probably would still be fine due to the players that continue to play them, just like every other French, Italian, Japanese, etc. vehicle that is overtiered. But it feels like an argument made out of a fringe example and one players experience shouldn’t have such weight in a sweeping change.

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Aight guys. The arguments on the mirage 2000Cs vs other at their tiers has taken more than 200 comments in less than 24 hours and is bloating the thread. Why don’t you guys actually go in custom battles to figure things out ? It would be faster and easier than just meaninglessly saying the same arguments over and over again just in a different way. You guys clearly don’t agree and won’t budge without concrete evidence.
In another topic, have you seen that leak that mentioned the addition of a Taiwanese mirage 2000 in the Chinese tech tree ? Any thoughts ?

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As far as I understand Taiwan never operated anything but Magic 2 and MICA. AIM-120 supposedly is on the horizon.

Interesting.

Fox-3’s for all nations is on the possible horizon

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Gaijin in a recent QnA from one of their Shooting range said explicitly that Fox 3 technology will arrive for everyone at the same time to not give one sided advantage to a fgew nations. MICA EM is way closer than people may think. And i don’t believ it will be nerf ofc the seeker and tracking will be bugged as fuck as it is on SARH but don’t worry i predict it will be the case for every missile.

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You both have missed the suggestive nature of the second part - if you can call it that- of my post.

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