The rumor originated from the fact that pictures showing Indian rafales equipping rafales were exceedingly rare at the time of these events.
Furthermore, in general, the few pictures and videos showing rafales taking off during that night seemed to indicate rafales were using heavy A2G loadouts, and carrying only MICA.
Obviously, we can’t rule out that maybe 1 or 2 rafales did carry meteor, but as of now in my opinion there’s more to show that they didn’t rather than the opposite.
I have not seen these « meteor fins » picture you are talking about tho @_OceanFish. I don’t think they were shared in this channel. If you know where we can find them it’s be cool
This picture alone doesn’t seem very conclusive. The comments below claim anything from a meteor, to an AMRAAM or even a python.
Problem is, this thread looks full of pakistani and Indian, so it’s misinformation land.
Thanks for sharing it tho, it’s the first time I hear of it
We do know that India released a video showing Rafale’s loadout for what appears to be Rafales with loadouts, no Meteor was shown on this loadout, just MICA-EM and MICA-IR
I haven’t seen any Indian native weapon integrated on any of their Rafales or any foreign weapons at all for that matter, although work is being done currently by both UAE and India to integrate their weapons. And usually the displays pretty much follow what would be the dimension outlines of said missiles accurately. For example Magic missiles also use their own models rather than the MICAs.
As far as i understand the soon to be signed deal will integrate indian weapons, right now there isn’t any additionals integrated weapons for indian rafale.
