In the last forty years, the UAE has flown both the Mirage 5 and the Mirage 2000.The UAE and Greece are said to be holding talks over cooperation in several military fields.This includes the possibility of the UAE selling a part of the French-made Mirage 2000-9 fighter jets in service with the UAE Air Force (UAEAF) to the Hellenic Air Force (HAF).Part 1 of this PolicyWatch discussed the recapture of Aden, highlighting a key success of the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition against Houthi rebels and armed supporters of former president Ali Saleh. The Emirates has spent more than 4 billion on defense contracts in the first three days of Dubai Airshow 2019. We have our Tejas Mk-2 which is more supe.On November 20, 2019, the UAE has also awarded a 350 million contract to FranceвЂ™s MBDA for ammunitions maintenance of the Mirage 2000 fighter fleet.

The Mirage was developed in the 1970s and is a single-engine jet fighter. In 1998, the UAE purchased 32 new Mirage 2000-9 jets, while 30 of the older Mirage 2000s were revamped. OPERATION DECISIVE STORMMany UAE pilots learned to fly on Mirages during the 1970s. If steps are not taken to correct these flaws, many more civilians might be killed, and the Houthis and their patron Iran could reap considerable propaganda benefits.

The country's fleet of long-range surface-to-surface missile (SSM) systems were targeted at their bases and known launch sites. Air bases and air defense complexes were prioritized to gain air supremacy and freedom to undertake aerial refueling and reconnaissance missions in or near Yemeni airspace. Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who also acts as Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly This first phase of the operation lasted twenty-nine days and saw coalition air forces work their way through military, political, and infrastructure targets with little apparent connection to an overall war strategy. Since then, around 170 strike aircraft have participated in the campaign, including 100 from Saudi Arabia (mostly F-15S and Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft), 30 from the UAE (F-16s and Mirage 2000s), and several F-16s from Bahrain (15), Jordan (6), and Morocco (6).UAE, France, Rafale and the Mirage 2000-9 issue.

On April 22, coalition spokesman Brig. Fixed targets of real military value were largely exhausted, with new attacks either restriking known targets or hitting suspected gathering places for Houthi and pro-Saleh forces. Other strikes focused on Houthi troop concentrations and leadership locations in the north, close air support along the Saudi-Yemeni border, and Houthi-aligned military camps and arms depots.By early April, the coalition was trying (and largely failing) to stem the southward flow of Houthi forces by hitting roads, bridges, and gas stations.

On June 6, at least one Scud C variant (a North-Korean Hwasong-6 delivered to Yemen in 2002) was fired at the Saudi military city in Khamis Mushait. The initial phase of Operation Decisive Storm clearly did not eliminate all Yemeni SSMs. The Houthis have matched the coalition blow for blow: their long-range rocket artillery strikes and cross-border raids into Saudi Arabia have grown more powerful since late May, utilizing BM-21 and BM-27 multiple rocket launchers and advanced Iranian-supplied antitank systems such as the Metis-M, Kornet-E, and RPG-29. By May 17, UN satellite analysis indicated that a total of 1,171 structures in Saada city had been damaged or destroyed by airstrikes (for more on the civilian toll, see the next section). On May 7, the coalition began warning Saada residents by leaflet to leave the area. This accelerated in tandem with Houthi attacks on border forts in Saudi Arabia's Jizan and Najran provinces from early May onward.

The highest reported death toll in a single day was 176 on July 6.Although the coalition has used a large number of precision-guided munitions, a May 3 Human Rights Watch report indicated that it is also using unguided bombs and cluster munitions, even within urban areas. And the tallies from generally reputable observers such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the UN suggest an average of forty civilian deaths per day, or around 4,000 total since late April. To date, collated figures from daily press reporting suggest that between 4,200 and 5,500 civilians have been killed by air attacks. No Yemeni SSMs have been confirmed destroyed prior to launch coalition airstrikes have only hit fixed sites associated with these missiles.To Western eyes accustomed to modern air campaigns aimed at minimizing civilian deaths, the level of collateral damage in the Yemen campaign is staggering. As the U.S.-led coalition learned in 1991 during its famous Scud hunt in Iraq, mobile TELs are very difficult to find. The Hwasong-6 can reach up to 500 kilometers inside Saudi territory and carry a 770 kg high-explosive warhead it can also be made mobile via transporter erector launchers (TELs).

Air Force should give some tough advice to the campaign planners: namely, that the air war is making the coalition look like the bad guys, giving the Houthis and Tehran a propaganda coup and threatening to besmirch any positive precedent that defeating Iranian-backed forces would generate.Moreover, the 'strategic air campaign' against Saada needs to be much more selective, tied to overall war aims rather than tit-for-tat retaliation. As the closest partner of the coalition air forces operating over Yemen, the U.S. As a result, the air campaign spends a lot of time hitting what it can find, not finding what it needs to hit.The United States has been through these issues in its own air operations over the past few years, moving toward more refined targeting and collateral damage mitigation processes. The coalition apparently cannot find the critical targets that actually need to be hit - enemy leaders, missiles, troop convoys, and mobile artillery systems. The lethal targeting of civilians may not be intentional, but it is the inevitable result of using excessively large munitions or indiscriminate weapons in populated areas.

More broadly, Washington can help the coalition cope with the demanding next phase of the air campaign: providing discriminate, effective air support to mobile offensive columns of Yemeni and UAE forces as they push north.To be sure, the United States hardly has realtime airstrike adjudicators or surveillance assets to spare - both are in high demand in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. The United States might also be able to help pro-government Yemeni forces use airstrikes to push elements of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) out of bases they have seized.

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