It’s the best aircraft in game, and pretty much doesn’t have competition at top tier except for maybe typhoon when the radar works
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oh i know, they made that abundantly clear by how many insults they typed.
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Personally I think of it still as expendable, it’s the logical next step to decoy improving radar seekers that are resistant to chaff, and it’s surely less effective than onboard ECM
For example, Spectra is surely more potent than Britecloud in power, but Britecloud has advantage of physically being in a different place
Brite cloud works like MALD it is programmable to mimic an RCS. I dont think you will fool AESA seekers they scan so quickly and will make the distinction between why I have 2 aircraft shapes when I expected one?
Its a combination effect, BriteCloud, chaff, TRD and onboard jamming. The idea is to make the situation as noisy as possible where in its almost impossible to pick the real target.
Shouldn’t look at BriteCloud being using in isolation on platforms like Typhoon, its always part of a larger operation by DASS.
If you were tracking a Typhoon you’d be contending with TRD, BriteClouds, Chaff and the onboard jammers all at the same time. The FCS looking at that would have a hard time sorting the real target from the sheer number of EW options being deployed.
Edit also, BriteCloud completely defeats HOJ systems.
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Here we go AIM-120C-5 is coming…
You know…
I understand the hate, it’s a complete UFO…
Outaccelerate the Typhoon by quite a big margin at high alt…
Which is unrealistic at best.
Goes to Mach 2 easily with full cas and fuel tanks while pilot themselves says the aircraft struggles a LOT when its loaded at high alt.
I’m French I like the plane but its just way too dumb imo…
Same for typhoon except it has less performance ironically at high speed and a shitty radar.
Anyone with less than 2kd on the rafale imo is shit at the game. It’s so op that it’s the bare minimum.
Hopefully things change or BR decompression
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Hey, maybe we’ll get the real range of MICA. We won’t, but hey, if I pretend it might happen there might be some hope and I won’t be stuck spitting about the fact they didn’t add Gripen NG.
Going to be so tedious.
It’s time for MICA actual fix and push the powercreep even further
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Aside from the joke, hopefully this would push for another decompression.
New yank missile warrants an improvement in MICA given what it is. Its introduction alone warrants decompression. But it’s a yank weapon, so chances are nothing will come of it.
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Wont make any real change just better in close ranges. As said many times all missiles have the same bloody seeker (excluding MICA) and it looks like it’s only coming to F/A-18C at the moment
Yeah not adding what essentially is a Gripen model they have in game with additional pylons and an AESA Radar is wild.
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Yeah, I just came to think that F-18C got Su-30SM treatment, to compensate the slow as mule speed, they receieve better Fox 3.
Fair tbh, well, the meme is dead then lol. I thought we’re gonna push for another powercreep again.
But either way, let’s make this thread not drifitng far away from Rafale, it’s getting out of topic again.
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i keep seeing this, but like what does that mean exactly?
MICA is the hardest to notch by not an insignificant amount. Combine with the fact it has excellent kinematics and the Rafales radar is OP as hell at the moment. Little survive a Rafale at shorter ranges.
I know I just stay at max possible range in SB in the typhoon or just pick lobbies with France on my team, because CBA go fight them at the moment
So it’s now confirmed that F-15E/I will get AIM-120C-5. No reason not to have MICA-EM get its real range now. Dev server thread should be up when dev server section opens.
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We’re maybe getting MICA fixes pretty soon then lol
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Hardest at short range from the way it is working and easier to notch if it’s the right term for this at long range from what i remember.
ok but like, my question was about the seeker being different, what does that mean? Like how is it different?