Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

One of the best radars
debatabaly the best flight model
the best RWR/MAWS
good missile kit
ahistorical modifications that never were in french service

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Only “issue” would be the ahistorical modifications If it’s not something the plane is capable off.

If it’s a question of they just never used X thing then who cares.

But i know nothing of those so if you would enlighten me of those cheers

iirc its being able to bring 8x MICA and having acess to Scorpion HMD

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Wasn’t the HMD introduced into French services in 2018?

honestly idek, those are the 2 i hear thrown around a lot

wierd, if you google “when did France get Scorpion HMD” stuff like this comes up. seems like the order was placed, not even delivered, in 2021

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Ahh ok as I said I know practically nothing about this, just some shit I’ve heard somewhere on the forums or bug reports.

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the Rafale F.3 in french service neither had a HMD nor 8 missiles
they both got added because “it could technically have it, because it got tested”
India is using both a HMD and 8 missiles on their Rafales but the one we got in game shouldnt have that

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So is it a case of it can but never did?

Or is there something stopping it from using said missile loadout.

As for the HMD If the in game Rafale variant never had HMD it shouldn’t have HMD

“It could technically use it and has been tested” has been the standard for many jets added

Scratch that, most of the game

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i think the IAF used HMD on F3’s, but French air force never had them integrated until F4 afaik

ehhh, there is obvious things specialy coming to my mind of getting denied because its not the in service variant even when tested

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That’s more of “It should be on those planes if it actually functions” than “remove it from everything else”
Imagine how many missiles Germany would lose, for example

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Idk I still think the Rafale is perfectly fine as is rn. Since it’s pretty much the end of the line for a looong time to come

I do think it should be increased in BR along with additions that match it, and then its spot filled in with earlier Rafales

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i would say armament variants and literal weapon slots and hmd are a bit different.
Besides that germany specialy would only use a few guided bomb variants. the brimstones should have been upgraded to better variants long ago in the game

This seems like the most reasonable thing to do

honestly the fact you instantly got one of the best rafale variants and skipped the early ones is propably the biggest bullshit. The pesa ones would have performed just as good

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But its not armament variants, mostly east German jets from Russia have missiles Germany never even owned, matching things like the Yak-141 getting things that were planned, etc.
It is the standard that if it existed, could be used, and was tested, it gets added (At least for Air, Ground is a mess of double standards)

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Probably more accurate to its irl radar if they added it with PESA