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🔥 France has delivered MICA missiles and 30-mm ammunition for Mirage 2000 fighters to Ukraine, the country's Defense Ministry said
The MICA is an air-to-air missile designed to engage targets in close combat and beyond visual range. It accelerates to speeds of up to 4,9 Mach and can engage targets at ranges of 60–80 km. There are variants with radar and infrared guidance.
Ukraine also received shells for the two built-in 30-mm DEFA 554 cannons on the Mirage 2000, with a rate of fire of up to 1800 rounds per minute.
MICA missiles and the aircraft cannons allow the Mirage 2000 to shoot down "Shaheds" and cruise missiles, saving more expensive and scarce long-range munitions.