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UAE Mirages to get Sniper pods | Jane's 360
Jeremy Binnie, London - Jane's Defence Weekly
27 February 2020
The Dassault Mirage 2000 jets flown by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence (AFAD) will be the first of the type to use the Sniper targeting pod, manufacturer Lockheed Martin announced on 26 February.
It said it had received a directed commercial sale from the AFAD to expedite the delivery of the pods. It did not reveal the value of the sale or the number of pods involved.
The AFAD maintains a fleet of at least 42 Mirage 2000-9s, some of which are older aircraft that were delivered in the 1980s and subsequently upgraded.
The Emirati Mirages currently use a version of the Thales Damocles pod called the Shehab.
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