The Aviation Marcel Dassault Mirage 2000C is an single engine, delta wing all weather night and day interceptor. Developed around 1973 as a successor of the Mirage III and Mirage V. The first of four single seat prototypes flew on March 10, 1978, and the fifth machine a private (Dassault) build  two-seater took the air in October 1980 as the precursor of the Mirage 2000B two-seat operational trainer.

The Mirage 2000N was derived from and looks much like the Mirage 2000B, but the Nuclear Strike variant includes stronger wings for low altitude operations, as well as low-level precision navigation-attack system, build around the Thomson-CSF Antilope 5 radar, with automated terrain following capability, at very high speed and very low altitude. The Mirage 2000N carries a single ASMP (nuclear weapon with 150 or 300 kilotons warhead) on a centerline pylon.

The Mirage 2000D is an updated Mirage 2000N.

The old prototype of the Mirage 2000B was extensively modified to fly as the first next-generation Mirage 2000-5 in October 1990. The first single Mirage 2000-5 flew in may 1991.

The Mirage 2000-5 is a new version of the multi-role aircraft with a new avionics system:

New pilot/system interface.

Five displays 'glass cockpit.

Head-Up/Level/Down and two Lateral.

RDY Multi-waveform pulse 12 Doppler radar.

Multi-target capability.

Multi-function radar.

New internal countermeasures system.

Multi-target firing and a new air-to-air MICA missile.