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Mirage 2000 Makes History—Russian Banderol Cruise Missile Shot Down With Guns

Summary by United24
A Ukrainian Mirage 2000-5F has reportedly scored a first, shooting down a Russian S8000 Banderol cruise missile not with an air-to-air missile, but with bursts from its built-in 30mm cannons.

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A Mirage 2000-5F reportedly shot down a Russian missile S8000 Banderol with its cannon, according to observers of the conflict in Ukraine. This fact, relayed by bloggers and specialists, would mark a first for a plane...

The Ukrainian armed forces launched a major airstrike on the Russian-held city of Donetsk on Saturday night. A Ukrainian pilot flying a Mirage fighter jet acquired from France shot down a Russian Bandero cruise missile for the first time with his onboard cannon.

·Tallinn, Estonia
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A Ukrainian Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet has destroyed a Russian S8000 Banderol small-sized cruise missile with fire from its onboard 30-mm cannon. The case is presented as the first known interception of this type of Russian missile by a Mirage. The information was reported by the French project French Aid to Europe. “The Mirage 2000-5F was the first Western fighter jet to destroy a Russian S8000 Banderol cruise missile with its cannon,” the stat…

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Air-to-air missiles, which Ukraine is still lacking, are much cheaper to use for a cannon.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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The French fighter Mirage 2000-5F in the Air Force of the U.S.A., for the first time in history, destroyed the Russian cruise missile S8000 "Banderol" with fire from an aircraft cannon. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to Militarnyi and the French project French Aid to Europe. The first was reported by the French project French Aid to Europe, which tracks French military assistance. When and where the loss occurred and the pilot's …

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A Ukrainian Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet shot down an S8000 Banderol, a relatively small cruise missile developed by Russia.

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United24 broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, October 2, 2026.
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