Correct, I already claimed it shouldn’t have an excess thrust to be able to hit Mach 2.8 in-game if aircraft limitations weren’t a factor.
First off, we’re supposed to examine aircrafts independently and judge them with the according sources rather than trying to compare with other aircrafts which is problematic in of itself. Model both aircrafts to the best of sources available and see where they fall, not by engaging in “This aircraft should be better than this because online discourse said so”. Those working on the Eurofighter flight models have a big problem to deal with, which is that the engine has taken quite a bit of thrust loss and documents on the prototype are being used for the Eurofighter and often times are being preferred over other more newer sources. It’s a whole other set of factors you have to take into account if you want to compare both aircrafts, factors we don’t have sources for on the Eurofighter or among other things.
I already have sources needed to prove Rafale should have excess thrust allowing it to achieve atleast somewhere in the region of Mach 2.4, rather than Mach 2.8 in-game.
The problem is that the excess thrust allowing it to achieve 2.4 without physical limitations still means it would out-accelerate the Eurofighter post-Mach (Eurofighter in-game I mean, not sure about IRL Eurofighter).
In-game it cannot hit Mach 2.8 as the airframe would disintegrate, but yes it has enough thrust to do that. But Gaijin could make it have a thrust-drop off after Mach 2.3 for the engine’s thrust which wouldn’t affect the post-Mach acceleration anyway. And wdym by coming up with the 2nd one?
Statshark graph, though you could also make a user mission with increased VNe if you wanted a more accurate number (statshark isnt perfectly accurate, but its good at giving you an idea)
Who knows. The community has been very touchy recently and many post get hidden for seemingly no reason (not saying many post shouldn’t have been hidden tho)
Croatia (by their minister of defence) might look to upgrade and modernize rafale’s armament.
(I heard a lot those f3r were still pesa for some reason so maybe that ? those rafale could be modernized up to the f4.1 standard, and, as far as i understand, putting mica ng on them is possible after it has been tested etc…)
