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🇦🇪✈️ UAE Achieves Major Defense Milestone: Indigenous "Thunder P-32" Smart Bomb Successfully Integrated with Mirage 2000-9 Fighter Jets

The United Arab Emirates Air Force has taken a significant step toward defense self-sufficiency by successfully integrating the locally developed Thunder P-32 Precision-Guided Smart Bombs and an advanced ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance) pod onto its French-made Mirage 2000-9 fighter aircraft.

🔹 Key Features of the Thunder P-32:
▪️ Total weight: 240 kg
▪️ Warhead weight: 209 kg
▪️ Approximate range of 24 km when released from 40,000 feet
▪️ Accuracy within 10 meters using GPS/INS navigation
▪️ Accuracy improved to around 3 meters with laser guidance

🎯 This integration enables the Mirage 2000-9 to detect, identify, and strike targets within a single mission cycle, significantly reducing response times against mobile targets, artillery systems, and enemy air-defense assets.

📌 The development highlights the UAE's growing investment in indigenous defense technologies and weapons manufacturing, aimed at reducing reliance on foreign supply chains and potential export restrictions.

🔎 Reference:
Based on reporting by Defense Security Asia and publicly available information from EDGE Group and HALCON regarding the Thunder Precision-Guided Munition program.

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