To be more concise, you would have operational level equipment and Training equipment.
For the majority of air forces, your training equipment is completely separate to your operational equipment with minimal cross over. We typically don’t go swapping out parts at a whim because the aircraft may need recertification from a regulatory standpoint depending on the part you are changing.
Maybe I’m not comprehending this, but looking at the graphs, the induced drag seems to be increased overall, and yet the data miners state that the induced drag is actually reduced. What did I miss ?
I think the orange line is the current one (we are currently at the 2.43.50 and the orange is the 2.43.41)
Rafale lacks supercruise capabilities // Gaijin.net // Issues
Thanks to @Mulatu_Astatke for sources.
shamefully deleted bug report here
Your link does not work.
fixed (thanks wareta)
edit also I am dumb, bug report is wrong, flaps do work
Anything to make the Rafale better than the Eurofighter…
(Gaijoob, pls gib IR AASM its automatic target recognition and SPECTRA the ability to launch weapons so I can accurately drop bombs on AA from >70km by initially tracking their radar emissions [who cares if it’s OP xD])
Apparently Later variants of the F-16’s Harm Targeting System (R7) has a similar feature that can generate GPS co-ordinates from detected emissions.
The HTS system consists of the pod, the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, or HARM, the aircraft launcher interface computer, and HTS-unique F-16 software. The pod is mounted externally on the right engine inlet hardpoint for the release 6, or R6, pod and the left engine inlet hardpoint for the release 7, or R7, pod.
The current configurations are R6 and R7 pods. R7, a hardware and software retrofit to the R6, provides precision targeting for various precision guided munitions, or PGMs, to support the destruction of enemy air defenses mission. The retrofit is on-going and all R6 to R7 upgrades should be completed by the end of 2008.
Pilots designate targets on the HARM Attack Display for launch. Upon firing, the HTS derived target information is sent to the HARM missile. The precision targeting capability of the R7 pod allows employment of various PGMs using an aircraft datalink system to quickly identify and target threats from any PGM-carrying platform on the network. Pilots can also datalink precision targeting coordinates to other F-16s or to the RC-135 Rivet Joint.
That’s for F-16 not rafale though
So the Rafale might actually beat the EFT in WVR now, which is accurate.
Ya know normally I hit the blue button, like the post and go along my merry way but this one pained me
It’s just… not right
Better than Eurofighter CFTs though
I would probably never use the conformal fuel tanks, but I guess maybe some people will use it for the cool factor.
It’s closer but probably not. EFT still has a small advantage in any relevant flight regime on paper. It now easily beats the gripen though, before the gripen matched the sustained rate but the gripen had less speed bleed and made it better in a dogfight.
good thing they’re not cleared
