Croatian Air Force Rafale F-3R livery

[Jaga997]

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The Croatian Air Force has aquired 12 (2 B and 10 C variants) Rafale F-3R fighter jets in order to replace its aging fleet of MiG 21’s which have been in service since the country gained independence in the early 90’s.
Since the MiG is no longer competitive on the modern battlefield and its service life has been extended multiple times over the years, the Croatian Ministry of Defence has decided to purchase a new aircraft for its air policing mission.
Multiple offers were considered including Swedish Gripens, Israeli F-16’s, American F-35’ and the French Rafale F-3R which was finally chosen due to its ability to perform a multitude of missions ranging from air to air, air to ground and air to sea making it the perfect aircraft for a small air force such as the one Croatia operates.
The first airframe was delivered on April 25. 2024. and the last one a year later on April 25. 2025.
The completed squadron could be seen on display at Franjo Tuđman airbase during AirVG 2025.

Featuring the Croatian 191.Squadron “Knight” emblem under the cockpit and a checkerboard pattern on the vertical stabilizer with the Croatian Coat of Arms. It would make a great addition to the game,offering more variety for the Rafale as well as representation of another nation that is yet to come War Thunder.

There are several examples on WT Live, this one being my favourite:

WT Live // Camouflage by PAF_ACE_Nouman

In-game:

Interested to hear your thoughts, thank you for reading!

[ILuvAnneHathaway]

Nice one

[FlyingOstridge]

Imagine this is what Gzabi said by “Like adding Serbia to the US tree”. Croatian Rafale to America.

[PlayedStatue626-live]

By gajin’s logic with minor axis powers the Rafael would somehow go to Italy

[FlyingOstridge]

I’m not against Italian Rafale.

[PlayedStatue626-live]

Italian global power, all that’s left is trying to see how to cram another fith gen that isn’t the F-35 into the Italy tree

[DirectSupport]

Would love to see this and more Rafale skins coming into the game. +1

[ItsGaryy]

As if 9 isn’t enough already.

[SpectreXXI]

@ItsGaryy

As if 9 isn’t enough already.

I’m interested in what thing do you smoke while you’re writing this.

[TonyTheJackal]

Math ain’t mathing here.

[vizender]

1+1 = 12, thus the rafale has 16 skins

[ItsGaryy]

What you’re missing.

Tales of Fenrir - Twitch Drop
Team Dodec Skin

Incl. Standard and you have 8 total skins to choose from.

[Jaga997]

No such thing as “enough”. Also,most of those are french display camos or fictional,it would be nice to have more historical skins that represent different air forces.

[SpectreXXI]

and that’s not even 9.

[TankerDman]

the checkerboard on the tail is very nice!!

[Jaga997]

The MiG’s had the same paintjob,and that one is already available on the marketplace for the german Bis