Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

Hello everyone, I saw that the bug concerning the Rafale aerobrake was accepted because it had François LEMAINQUE’s quotes to support it. There will be a future interview with the latter on the Aerobuzz YouTube channel. The subject will be on the twin-engine Dassault aircraft, I think there is a move to try to get additional information for other subjects.

:https://m.youtube.com/@Aerobuzz-JumpSeat/community

Ps: Thank you to all the people who contributed to the writing of the bugs to give the Rafale back its letters of nobility

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Oh nice, thankfully they accepted it thanks to the Jumpseat podcast

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This is an interesting point. Especially for the first video about post stall manoeuvrability.

In the very interesting video featuring François Lemainque (former Dassult engineer who worked on the Rafale design), he explained that this design with canards very advanced on the nose was the requirement of german especially for this post-stalling manoeuvrability. So I’m actually not surprised with this first video with very high stability while stalling.

I saw this on Reddit lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/s/SGyQ6x2meG

hahaha wtf okay, this is hard to explain xD

For those who are interested, the document below is the technical documentation for the Rafaut tribomb transport pods (declassified) equipping the Rafale

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Bomb pod.zip (987.4 KB)

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for those who are interested in getting the MICAs fixed i would encourage you to support the following bug reports :

That would maybe encourage the devs to take a deeper look into it

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I “have the same issue”'d each one of them. Hopefully we will se something moving forward ! At least a comment from Gaijin about it… It has been “forwarded” for like 6 months now.

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There is literally an interview with a Typhoon pilot somewhere saying the Rafale pulls better AoA

Do you think that i need to make a new report for the engine power with the information of this report : Community Bug Reporting System to be accepted?

Has anyone made a report for Rafale’s arrest hook not working ?

And is Rafale going to get functional SPECTRA ? It would help alot considering low amount of CMs

Oh and smart flares

The information regarding SPECTRA has been reported internally, for intelligent flares I don’t think it will be added given that this mechanic is not yet in game

Otherwise I haven’t seen a report for the arresthook

We also have A-10 and A-4N with flaps modelled as airbrakes

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The more folk bring up to me, the more disappointment I feel in the devs.

Well they agreed to change the locking/tracking distance of the IRST of the Eurofighter, I hope that they will also be interested in changing that of the Rafale

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/ZDBeRSwcKGrq

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My money’s on “Not a bug” for the French plane.

Hi. I will look at OSF data when I am home, if you have any figure to share feel free

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The problem is that the information concerning the IRST of the Rafale is still classified, only a few secondary sources announce values ​​and when I presented them I was told that it is not precise enough

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I have some but I’m not sure Dassault appreciates seeing a leaked flight manual on the forum

No. Definitely not. If you have any secondary source share it here.

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