The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
As widely expected.
French contractors.
Reportedly modified.
The supersonic, single-seat jets.
To carry the SCALP-EG.
Cruise missiles.
France is also providing.
To Ukraine.
The jets’ arrival.
Expands the ‘elves’ air force’s.
Deep strike capability.
At a critical moment.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
With outgunned.
‘Elves’ brigades struggling.
To hold the line.
In eastern Ukraine.
The air force is playing.
A key supporting role.
—targeting ‘orcs’ command posts.
In order to disrupt.
Front-line coordination.
And give ‘elves’.
Outnumbered ground troops.
A fighting chance.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
The Mirages will join.
A growing fleet of.
Ex-European Lockheed Martin.
F-16s in revamping.
The battered ‘elves’ air force.
Which has mostly made.
Do with the same few hundred.
Ex-Soviet warplanes.
It had in service.
Or in storage before.
‘Orcs’ widened its war.
On Ukraine three years ago.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
The air force has lost.
Around 100 of.
These older jets.
To ‘orcs’ missiles;
85 F-16s and.
Potentially a dozen or.
More Mirage 2000s.
Will complement.
The surviving.
Soviet models.
As the war grinds into.
Its fourth year.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
The dozen or so.
Ex-Danish and ex-Dutch.
F-16s that have arrived.
So far.
Minus one former.
Danish jet that.
Crashed last year.
Have been flying.
Air-defense missions.
Targeting ‘orcs’ drones.
And cruise missiles.
Bombarding ‘elves’ cities.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
The Mirages may fly.
Ground-attack missions.
The French tweaked.
The air-defense Mirage 2000-5s.
Not only to carry.
SCALP-EGs.
But also to haul.
The Hammer glide-bombs.
Ukraine gets.
From France.
The SCALP-EGs.
Are critical.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
The SCALP-EGs.
Are critical.
Ranging as far as.
155 miles.
With bunker-busting.
Tandem warheads.
The 2,900-pound.
Missiles can hit.
‘Orcs’ regiments.
Where they’re.
Most vulnerable:
Their headquarters.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
In the months.
Before launching.
Their recent counteroffensive.
In Kursk.
The ‘elves’ went to.
Great pains to.
Find and strike.
The command posts.
Find and strike.
The command posts.
Of the ‘orcs’.
810th Naval Infantry Brigade.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
It’s no coincidence that.
When they attacked.
On the southeastern edge of.
Their 250-square-mile salient.
In Kursk last week.
The ‘elves’ focused.
Their troops and firepower.
In the same sector.
Their troops and firepower.
In the same sector.
Held by the beleaguered and.
Befuddled marine brigade.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
The Mirages will only.
Be as useful as.
Their best munitions.
Are plentiful.
It’s unclear how many.
SCALP-EGs Ukraine has gotten.
From France and Italy.
Perhaps as few as 100.
It’s also unclear.
How many of the missiles.
Ukraine has left after.
Years of hard fighting.
The first handful of.
Ex-French Dassault Mirage.
2000-5 fighters.
Have arrived in Ukraine.
*Because I read “Ex-French Mirage Jets Should Help The Ukrainian Air Force Blow Up More Russian HQs, Faster” by David Axe on 9 Feb 2025 on the Forbes, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022 on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, including a report of La Tribune.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
Ex-French Mirage Jets Should Help The Ukrainian Air Force Blow Up More Russian HQs, Faster
