{"id":1114,"date":"2025-11-26T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/ukrainian-pilot-french-mirage-proving-highly-effective\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:54:38","slug":"ukrainian-pilot-french-mirage-proving-highly-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/ukrainian-pilot-french-mirage-proving-highly-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Pilot: French Mirage proving highly effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1499\" height=\"892\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1499px) 100vw, 1499px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1.jpg 1499w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1-800x476.jpg 800w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1-706x420.jpg 706w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6mLH2qbkAA7hxj-1-1068x636.jpg 1068w\">A Ukrainian Mirage 2000 Pilot described the aircraft\u2019s performance and the growing need for additional Western support during a rare on-camera interview from an operational airfield. With only a small number of Mirage 2000 fighters now serving in the Air Force, the appearance of the French-built jet during an active combat sortie provided a direct [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian Mirage 2000 Pilot described the aircraft\u2019s performance and the growing need for additional Western support during a rare on-camera interview from an operational airfield. With only a sma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}