Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

Anyway, to return to the main point of the conversation.

Rafale seems to majorily overperforming in terms of structrual limits and the Typhoon seems to be massively underperforming

let the eurofighter shine, let the rafale shine, whos gonna shine next?

Intake-wise sure, but the actual layout of the jet is a close coupled canard with a TWR closer to 1 and a wingsweep closer to the Rafales.

If the Rafale needs more than 16.5G of structural limit, then I really want to know what you are doing. That should be more than enough. 22+ is just insane.

It is also how the wing blends into the fuelsalage and the general shape of the fuelsalage

i’m sure it won’t shine the same when the next aircraft’s time to shine comes


china, when is your turn?

ofcourse gaijin knows this and does it on purpose. people will grind different aircraft when they all get to be in a spot where they appear the greatest

Chinas been getting kinda screwed update after update tbh.

Payment for how absurdly broken the J-7E is at 11.0 I guess.

good i dont play them then
im sure rafale will have a day when it also gets nerfed and we will have something else to complain about

I seriously doubt gaijins favourite plane is ever being nerfed anymore than it already is.

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they gotta make room for the f22 some day

Im curious if the F-22 will get the Rafale treatment and get a free HMD actually

gotta get people to grind it somehow
sweet premium money

It will be the variant from 2025. No way the Americans will allow it to come without every single possible feature

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It recently got an HMD operationally on a Hawaii squadron. Tested Scorpion HMD (same as Rafale funny enough) earlier

But me personally, I think it’ll be a 2005 one

Also; the “22G” are based on what the in-game HUD shows, however that should not be taken as any serious reference. Use WTRI etc for more accurate Data.

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In-game HUD G indicator is slightly off on the Rafale, its still pulling over 20G’s and surviving.

EFT’s wing comes off pretty much the moment it goes above 18G:

18G is where the EFT’s wing should break if gaijin is using the correct 12G max load.

20G+ is well beyond the 16.5G the Rafale should break at in-game on the other hand.

Sorry for the colours being blown out, I had to reinstall my drivers and somethings not right with the colour of recordings atm for some reason.

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Anyone else sometimes unable to fire in tws randomly? It seems when I tws lock someone for too long I am unable to turn my MICA on, and the radar stops showing missile range info. Wondering if this is a Rafale only bug.

In all fairness, IMO Typhoon is underperforming, because I’d think it’s also pretty ridicolous to see Rafale accelerate much faster at altitude than Typhoon.

It’s like, if Rafale can overperform at high altitude, then Typhoon could’ve done that too.

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In every single respect the Typhoon should outperform the Rafale in terms of flight performance, at hte moment the Typhoon barely keeps up.

Eurofighter had it for 3 months. Let’s wait another 3 months