Take-off with afterburner of French Mirage 2000D.
Registration: 677 / 3-JT.
Construction number 551.
Dassault developed the Mirage 2000D in addition to the Mirage 2000N. The N version was developed for the use of nuclear weapons. The D version was designed for long-range precision strikes but with conventional weapons.
This photo was taken on 5 April 2019 during the Frisian Flag exercise at Leeuwarden Air Base.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…