agusta + aerospatiale + BK = the best helicopter ever, no matter what 🙂

-first it is a kind of advertisement to enroll in the french airforce, so it is an official video.

The text does not have a very official form.
This video has been leaked on the internet and was never intended to be public.

-second, if you look the number of aircrafts involved in this film, 4 mirage f1, pumas and transals (and what they do together) ,it’s almost impossible that this video is turned by amateurs.

This is a video made in Chad. The squadron deployed over there traditionnaly makes a video as a “souvenir” There are 3-4 other videos of this kind available on the internet from different years.

-third, the quality of the video make me think that it is shot with professional cameras.

Yes, the quality is good, but this is not a big deal vith modern digital camcorders. All cockpit shots are taken from single seaters which means that they are using compact camcorders, not big professional ones.

-the assemblage of the video is also professional.

Yes, the guy who made it has some talent 😉

There is a comic version of this video with some footages that are definitivly not official/professional ( 😀 )

Well, This is a recce squadron after all (mirage F-1 CR), so you can consider them as video professional if you want 😉
My point is : this is an internal video made by and for the people of the squadron.

Is the AASM actually in service?

No.
Il will enter into operational service first on the rafale F2, next year.
The mirage 2000D will recieve them when the french air force will have more money (ie, not now).

The AG weapons capability within the french air force have been share like this :

Rafale F2 : AASM, Scalp
mirage 2000 D : GBU, scalp, apache, AS-30L
mirage 2000 N : ASMP, GBU

Why have the BGL 1000 and GBL 400 been retired?

Too expensive. The last ones have been used during allied force IIRC

you can say so and so but in 2006 few aircraft have missiles in the Class of the SRAAM operational and no Su-27 or super Flanker has a better missile than the ASRAAM, only the Israeli air Force and USAF F-16 and F-16s, the Australian F-18 and Chilean F-5 carry operationally better missiles or SRAAM operationally.

the last versions of the tornado are outclassed in BVR and CAC by F-15 E/I/K/SG, F/A-18E, F-16 bk50/60, mirage 2000-5 mk2

All those aircrafts use equivalent or better missiles (aim-120C, aim-9x, mica IR/EM), better radars (APG-63V1/V3, APG-80, APG-79, RDY-2) and are far better AA platforms both as interceptors and dogfighters.

btw, I read somewhere the Tornado IDS has troubles reaching 30’000ft combat loaded… if I remember correctly that is.

If that is the case, it is a sitting duck against the F-15, mirage 2000-5 and su-30, amraam or not.

1- put China into NATO
2- lift the weapon embargo
3- give the JFK to china
4- sell 150 rafale M to China

😀

The question is :

Do you want to know the weapon loads which are operational (in used) with the french air force.
or the weapons loads which are possible on a mirage 2000.

For exemple, you can load 4 R550 (2 outboard wing / 2 inboard wing) but you will probably never see this configuration on a french mirage 2000D.

Matra SNEB 18-shot 68-mm rocket pods (2 or 4?) (I’ve heard four and seen two mounted in the inboard wing pylons but where would the other two go?)

one pod on each wing pylon… so 4 pods. (not in use in the FAF)

De ja vous?

deja vu 😉

deja = already
vu = seen