Nah those are from the flare bins on the top and bottom.
BOL isn’t pryotechnic, it’s a pyrophoric material. Reacts with oxygen to produce it’s IR emissions.
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Ahhaa,Is the MiG-21 possible? You can’t see his engine.
Forget about realism in general.Airplanes have a sep of 250 m/s at an altitude of 9km, when in reality it would be no more than 100
It looks like the Gripen has bare pylons with no BOL dispensers fitted.
IIRC there are a couple of images where you can see BOL being deployed, but it is unclear how it looks to the naked eye. Most cameras pick up some amount of the IR spectrum. For example, point your phone camera at a the bulb on the end of a TV remote and press a button. You won’t see anything light up with your eyes but with most remotes / cameras you will see it light up like an LED.
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From what I recall of direct’s statement, there are multiple features that should degrade identifiable information further than just hiding engines, but I am not informed enough to go any further than that. You’ll want to discuss it with them instead of I, for an explanation of how and why it degrades that capacity.
Denied :(
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So i retest Rafale on the last dev build
The fix are great but there are still some detrimental issues regarding the Rafale, specialy in the Radar department
1st issue: AESA radar is unrealiable for detection of target in TWS mode at WVR distance.
2nd issue: AESA is way too slow for scanning, which is even more obvious with the new 140°x31° scanning mode
1: Unable to pick up target in TWS at within 2KM in rear aspect
2: The moment i switch to 30°x16°, Rafale radar need to scan at least 3 times the same area to finally pick the F-18 moving in head on aspect.
3: The video speak for itself (3 scan no detection, target is not notching)
2 more “minor” issue.
3rd issue: The HMD is now bugged if radar track a target with Data fusion, the “MARK A” (TV sensor), don’t lock into an aircraft target. in First person. + The fact that they didn’t updated the symbology, so Rafale can’t still show either single target or multiple tracked target on HMD atm.
4th issue: the unrestricted AOA mode can mess up on the roll axis.This mode still feel unfinished.
For both first issues, if coupled, you lose situational awereness WVR which can easily get you kill. I had a situation in dev server, where 2 targets at the same altitude and at same scan area, the AESA radar picked up the target a 60~km but couldn’t see the other target (at 6km) which was near, in the same scan area.
A short term and rather quick “bandaid” fix could be to add a new scan rate mode: we currently have the new 140°x31° (14 vertical scan bar), we could have 140°x16 (7 vertical scan bar) But clearly not the best with the current scan speed. Or adding 140/70°x11° scan mode (4 vertical scan bar like Gripen) and 140°x3° (1 vertical scan bar same as M2K in TWS) which will help a lot, since you rescan the same area even if it fail to detect at the first.
The current TWS for AESA radar in dev server still doesn’t seems to act like an AESA. Even if the next major update add a ton of fix which is nice.
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I didn’t start playing France all the way back just to fight against Rafales. Chinese Mirages are bad enough. Please Gaijin, don’t…
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For now devs aren’t actionning reports for NTCR. I suggest waiting for live to report the lack of Rafale NTCR (if it’s not added, since for now it’s missing from the datamined list), and depending on wether it gets IDed or not by other planes
Looks like Rafale also got NCTR in .41, as well as missile aim lead.
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Indeed, it would be rather annoying to see the UK receive the pinnacle of french air. They’ve got their own tech, no need to add Indian Rafales or Flankers to their tree.
UK mains demanding all the canard equipped gen 4 fighters be in their tree reminds me of Sweden mains asking for literally every single vehicle that passed over their borders for any reason. Even if half of them are in jest.
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Missile aim lead? Knowing French missiles that’s gotta be just a mild suggestion
please no not in the UK tech tree… if there’s ever an indian nation I’ll be 100% for the indian Rafale but please no not my beloved Rafale to the brits
We are happy with the Typhoon providing Gaijin fix the Radar and stop burying the flight model.
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If there’s no Indian tree then it works as France’s event/premiums, given they were changed and modified in-tandem with Dassault
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Agree and while they are at it they can fix the Swedish Gripen as well
I hope Rafale gets conformal fuel tanks usable in game for the sheer comedic value
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They should have added the Gripen E by now
NCTR is not displayed on any MFD, which is pretty Rubbish.