So far with accesible infos only F4.1 seem to have been qualified for AASM 1000 and there is afaik no proof of AASM 1000 trials on any F3. But it also depends if gaijin give the MK 84 to Rafale because dumb bombs basically got integrated with F3R so acccording to gaijin policies you could theorically claim AASM 1000 if they give Mk 84 but it wouldn’t be accurate with history of Rafale and neither would the Mk 84 be.
If we stay in line with history F3.2 should be able to use DAMOCLES, GBU 12/22/49, AASM 125/250/500 GPS/IIR, MICA EM/IR.
Maybe @WreckingAres283 could still confirm as i’m only 90% sure of what i said, i could have missed some documents about F3.2 weaponry.
Yeah i deleted because i made a quick check and realised AM 39 Block 1 was already integrated from F2. But Gaijin still doesn’t seem to be uninterested by AM 39 so far so i skipped it like i skipped SCALP because high prob gaijin don’t integrate it too.
My personal hope is that anti-ship missiles will be added in this update, the fact that the Kormoran has been reworked and that many planes that can fire air-to-sea missiles will be added to the game gives me this hope.
For once i doubt they would as AASM 1000 and MICA NGs x8 could make for the future F4.2 loadouts improvements so that it doesn’t ressemble F3 too much and they could still place F3R between as you’d get AESA radar + AASM L + new range of laser GBUs + new sensors + OSF-IT + Talios + METEOR.
And regarding dumb bombs it’s imo the only weapons they could introduce early as dumb bombs are used by many players for grind and don’t give any advantage to the plane.
Compared to 2000-5F case where gaijin wanted to give a multi-role for no reason Rafale has enough weapons in general to not need Al Tariq it could just be a troll weapon to claim imo, but still funny, the thing looks cool too. Would be a precursor to Smart Gliders when we get Rafale F5 in 2045 X).
In any way Rafale wouldn’t have access to that much more weapons even if gaijin decided to give some weapons available only to export Rafales. Towed Decoy could be cool to receive tho ngl.
Agreed, in the air to air department it won’t radically change from 2000-5F
In the CAS role, it mostly depends if they remove the 20km pod stabilisation limit and the 15km laser limit. If those are extended a bit, and assuming AASM comes, it could receive a boost in that department
@Kishin_SR6 Please do not use flags in a way to hide opinions of others that might be different to yours. Nothing about their posts is rule-breaking. False flagging is against the rules.
Seems to be Rafale number B313 from base BA113 Saint-Dizier (immatriculation 113-HI), as well as B328 from same base (immatriculation 113-IC)
If it carried ASMP-A or Exocet, it would be F3 for sure, but with AASM only, quite impossible to know since all other modifications between rafale F2 and early F3 are internal
