Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance - Part 2

Yeah. The interesting question is the variable throttle and how that affects speed.

If the target is close enough that it doesnt need to throttle back to maximise effeciency… its then an interesting question as to how fast it can be. Given ranges in WT. That would probably be the most common (and as a result I can see them just setting it to the max throttle all the time as a result)

i also heard people saying that meteor production rate is very low or something like that is it true or is it just a rumor ? if its real then is it because of the cost ?

You can look above there was a conversation on the amount of meteor bought by the different countries, and its overall not a lot at all. I’m not certain there has been more than 1000-1500 built in like 15 years ?

maybe even slower than that
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Maybe, but I though RAMJETs had a massive drop in effeciency below M2.5/3 ish

I dont really see why they would? because this is per fuel burned not maximum thrust

it makes sense that the most efficient point would be the lowest possible speed it can sustain due to the drag exponentially increasing with speed due to having to decelerate the air to subsonic velocity

In a turbojet, perhaps, but Ramjets work differently though. They have to be moving forward to scoop up the air. If they arent traveling fast enough, they’ll actually loose thrust, but not necessarily burn any less fuel

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I know that, but ramjets still decelerate the air and the airflow through the combustion chamber needs to be subsonic

and if you have the control to do so there isnt a point in burning more fuel than can fully combust

And that’s what it shows on the graph? At the same speed, the lower the thrust specific fuel consumption, the better the fuel efficiency. The graph shows ramjet fuel efficiency only matches turbojets at around mach 4, and it’s 2 times worse below mach 2.

I wonder how the OSF integration could be implemented in game

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OFS color textures have been fixed @DirectSupport

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Its been a while, but it was either from DGA people or Marketing material. But the OSF was said to be possibly used to target/detect low visibility aircraft. And could be used to spot targets at long range through IR frequencies. And i was wondering if more advanced versions of irist were planned additions in the game ?

No ? You graph shows that the faster it goes from Mach 1.5 to Mach 3.5, the less it consumes, and then a slight increase up to Mach 4

Was this added in the previous updates or today? I don’t remember seeing it before

Rafale c also get talios ?

No only DAMOCLES from what I’m seeing

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Whats the difference between talios and damocles

Can’t test it out yet, I have 100k rp left on Rafale M (+spading)

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